Getting over the hump with trainer companies

Excellent advice airdrop.I like to call the training process bootcamp.If you can successfully make it thru bootcamp then trucking is a piece of cake.I survived Werner 3 yrs.First yr was great and went rapidly downhill once I got the exp and hip to their head games.

 

My husband did time with JB Hunt, to get otr experience. He has driveing experience, but not the OTR, now ue's working for a better company.

He had to put up with alot of hand holding crap, just like he was straite out of CDL school. So even with almost 20 yrs of driveing experience, he was treated like the newest rookie driver.

The best advice my husband can give is have patience, do what you have to and evenually you can move on to a better company (or just one that suites your needs better).

My best advice is to ask alot of questions before you go to orientation and really think it through. To me their is nothing worse than sitting their in orientation and realizeing that you made a huge mistake. That is time and money wasted.

Training pay rate, when does that end and you get an increase? Do they have perdeim and do you want it? APU's, do all the trucks have them, this might not seem like it's important, until they send you to a no idle place when its hot as Hades or freezeing and you can't idle. Inverters, do the tricks have them or can you put one in, again not THE most important of questions, until you remeber you had planned on saveing money by mostly eating out of the truck.

The only dumb question is the one you didn't ask until it was to late.

Sorry that was longer than I ment it to be.