If you can stand it then do it! We need good trainers out there on the roads. And you sound perfect. Patience can carry you very far.
CRST Training - Abuse, lies, and a truck with a cat!
Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by shookup, Sep 5, 2007.
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Shookup I'm not laughin at you but rather with ya. It shouldn't be funny but well...it is. I feel bad for you and never would treat any of my students like that. The cat part killed me. You are a better person than I for dealin' with that.
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By the time I got to the second trainer, the one with the cat, I was just desperate to get with a human being and get my training finished. She could have had a snake as a pet on that truck, and I would have just tried to deal with it and get through the training.
I did have to fight the overwhelming urge to throw the cat out of the window a few times though because I had to "ask" the cat to move out of my seat constantly, I laid down on the bunk to find wet hairballs on my pillow several times, the curtain always had to be left open a bit so the cat could come and go from the front to the back, and she woke me up several times by jumping on me while I was asleep. The trainer constantly talked to the cat so I never knew if she was speaking to me or the cat. Every day, twice a day, the woman would start freaking out and get all upset because "my baby is hungry, my baby is hungry." I almost laughed out loud at her one time because we were running long, and she was so upset and kept saying "oh my baby is starving. I know you're starving baby. Please forgive Mommy. I'll stop soon. I know you are so mad at me," and the cat was lying on the bunk totally alseep and oblivious to her.
I dealt with it, but the only time I almost lost it over the cat was when we were trying to get out of Chicago. There was flooding, we were detoured. We had been sitting in traffic for 5 hours before we finally found a safe alternate route to take. All the other truckers were taking it too, and we all ended up at yet another detour sign, but the detour they were sending us all on was not truck safe. So we ended up at an intersection with a JB Hunt truck, a US Express truck, a Schneider truck and us. There was a cop putting up the new detour sign, but none of us had anywhere we could go, so all these trucks came to a dead stop at the intersection. She told me to roll down the window to talk to the US Express driver next to us to see if he knew where we should all go, but when I did all the drivers were starting to yell out of their windows at the cop, asking him where the F we were supposed to go from there. All of the trucks had the intersection completely blocked, all the truckers were blowing their horns and yelling, cars were going around and almost hitting each other, people were screaming at the trucks to move, and she absolutely freaked because all the horn blowing and yelling was upsetting the cat. She had a major meltdown over the stupid cat being upset.
That was not a fun night to be sure!
I'm not really a better person than you for dealing with it, I was just desperate. You know how they always say "someday this will be funny"? Someday that whole month will be I'm sure, but not yet. Its been 4 months since my "trucking escapade" (as my family calls it), and I still occasionally have nightmares about it. In the grand scheme of things, to say that it was the worst experience of my life still shows I've had a pretty good life. Alls well that ends well though, and I ended up with a job I love, right here at home, so someday soon maybe I'll be laughing at all this right along with you....maybe.
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CRST is a nightmare....I am sorry but how can anyone respect companies with this type of crap going on? Its too bad that a student doesn't know about the company or the supposedly trainers...until its too late....
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