CRST what kind of training?

Depends when you train with them I imagine. Kinda hard to train someone in the snow during the summer.

 

After you complete their cdl school, you'll run teams for 10 months in all weather/all terrain. That's your training. That's more than you get with most companies. Some companies cut you loose and on your own after about 10 days, but CRST it's 10 months.
Depends on if you're a fast learner or not. Some new cdl drivers need a full 10 months training and some are ready to roll in 2 weeks.

 

Part of the info is on their website and the rest is on this forum posted by other drivers.
Your buddy shouldn't have been driving on ice anyway; that's why he spun out and crashed into a ditch. Wintry, snowy roads are different than ice. I was driving on winter roads not long after graduating from a 10 day cdl school and had no problems. I'm not special, just safety conscious.
Millions of miles a year are driven by truckers on wintry roads and very few of them are involved in incidents.

 

It's most likely because they allow people with only a few months experience to train other drivers. This has unfortunately become common place in the industry.

At crst not only will you be trained by someone that most likely barely knows how to complete the company papper work you will then be teamed up with someone ( Your co driver) who will have no clue about driving a 32k to 80k lb WMD because he received the same type of training.
Yes that's right you'll be putting your life in a strangers hand.

 

Yes, with CRST you're only with a trainer for 28 (or as few as 21) days. You will be with a co-driver for the remainder of your 10 month commitment. Whether the time with your co-driver can be considered "training" depends on who you end up teamed with. Many drivers become friends in training and end up pairing up so it can be like the blind leading the blind. Not to mention the fact that your trainer could possibly be a driver with only 6 months of experience in the first place.

To get to your original question, as someone who just completed their CDL school this past winter, there wasn't a lot of training in school on how to deal with adverse weather/road conditions. They only teach you enough for you to pass the test for your CDL. They shift the responsibility for everything else on your trainer and depending on their knowledge, how well they teach and a list of other factors, it may never come up. Even though real-world training and experience can be the most helpful, I can also attest to the fact that their safety mantra is to never drive in conditions where you don't feel comfortable. This includes weather, road conditions, sickness, lack of sleep, etc. No one has ever given my co-driver and I any crap ever for shutting down based on road conditions. As someone else mentioned, your friend shouldn't have been driving in those conditions. The company does a pretty good job in the winter of warning you about weather/road conditions before you make it to the affected area. Depending on the conditions, they almost always impose mandatory slow downs and mandatory shut downs before you would get into a situation like that.

Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions about their training.

 

I saw on today's drudge report a crst driver pulled his rig up on the boardwalk ...in Jersey I think...and then tried to keep driving! He did alright until the boardwalk made a 90 degree turn. I wonder if that's covered in their training manual?

 

The boardwalk should have some type of barrier to keep trucks out. They bear some responsibility for this happening every now and then.

 

Yes your trainer will show you how to make it to the beach with GPS.