Do they really not teach u how to backup these days ?
Discussion in 'Trucking Schools and CDL Training Forum' started by Miketruckinginc, May 20, 2023.
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I realize that this thread has all the super truckers having a contest on how they hopped in a truck as a toddler and instantly out drove Red Sovine... but like most trucker threads by truckers...... they fabricate and lie so much (especially to themselves) that they don't even know what the hell the truth IS anymore. If anyone tells you that they were backing marvels on day one........ like most everything they tell you. its complete fabricated nonsense. Trucking schools were NEVER designed to make professional experienced truck drivers... EVER! The fact that there were a lot of fly by night horrible schools is because BOTH the prospective drivers don't want to pay anything and expect expert comprehensive professional training for FREE.. and the industry then takes them uses half-witted morons who want a free extra log book to "train them". The industry is more at fault for the current crap status of the new drivers and no one else... other than the bozos who have failed at literally everything in their lives so they decide that might as well be a truckin driver. There are no way to hold anyone to any standards or professionalism... because trucking isn't and never will be a profession,,, (Rant off)
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I think all @Miketruckinginc is looking for is someone to ask how he's gettin his CDL without a school, and for free.
He's mentioned it a couple times now in his great threads.
So somebody ask..... -
I'd be leery of calling it "free" -
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Just like the OP's question......
Personally, I believe that a driver student should have to attend a "Truck Driving School" for 6 months (just like a police officer, a fire fighter or an EMT) that actually teaches individual students how to drive a truck, the industry rules/regulations & provide actual physical training behind the wheel, on the road, actually dealing with loads/shippers/receivers.
Then be required to stay with a trainer at a company for another 6 months.... minimum.
And there may be some truth to the guys your calling super truckers referring to they're ability at such young ages or the ability to learn these things so quickly. Or at least learning this stuff quicker than students today.
Some of us older guys (from the 50's & 60's) came from an entirely different generation & era than younger drivers today. I did all the things you say in your post. I came up from a very young age doing things that gave me a lot of early experience that younger drivers today don't have. I was on a farm tractor prior to 10 years old. I was driving a vehicle with a manual transmission by 12 years old... yes, on the road. Yes, the first time I ever sat in commercial vehicle... and old international with a 10 speed (5 speed with a dog)... I was taken to the truck & dropped off with the keys & was told; "take this truck to my ranch" & drove it about 20 miles across the parish (county).
It didn't take a lot of training for us. We came up doing things that were physical. We didn't come up sitting on the bed playing video games. We came up in a time where physics & mechanics was a part of our everyday life. We didn't have to be taught as such. It was how we were brought up. The environment.
We could reverse this & put our shoes on the other feet. I can't get the full use of electronics. I cant understand a tenth of my Xfinity TV or my old iPhone 8. But I can give either to my 10 year old grandson who has never experience Xfinity (cause they have Hulu or something) & my iPhone 8 and there's no limit to what he can do with that thing within a few minutes. Why?? because that's how he came up. He came up from a 2 year old, with electronics in his hands. Its all he does. Its what has developed him. But you know what? He cant back a 70 ft rig into a tight dock between two long nose Pete's either. Why?? Because he has no understanding of physics. He has no understanding of mechanics. He's lucky to figure out how to operate the door handle to get out of his bedroom.
Its not that I am a super trucker... we just came up in a different environment. I learned to do this stuff before I even knew, consciously, that I was even doing it. Just like my grandson with a video game. He don't even realize that he has to learn how to make Mario jump over a mote to reach the castle. Actually, he didnt have to learn it. He just knows how to do it. Its just natural to him. There is no learning with him for that.
Yes, I probably learned it quicker & easier than he can, but he can learn electronics easier than I could.
Now....... End of my rant......Last edited: May 20, 2023
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Which schools teach them how to drive with their feet on the dash and their ph in their hands watching moives ? ..
Cause there sure seems to be alot of graduates from those schoolsLast edited by a moderator: May 21, 2023
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He's already mastered American Truck Simulatortscottme, Star Rider, Albertaflatbed and 2 others Thank this. -
If you go to his profile and hit media this is what you get...a lego truck, just sayin...
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