How Are Trainers Trained?

Lol.... i went to a classs for a day and watch few videos and listened to someone talk...
There very few good trainers, training the next group of drivers some of who will become trainers. Very few drivers with years of experience will train....
I became a trainer after a few years because i felt i had something to pass on. What i learned was large companies want drivers to know enough to do what they are told, and not enough to find a differant way to do it

 

I read that at CR england the trainers start training with 6 months driving experience, so they basically have no clue what theyre doing

 

Welfare Express...3 months. Get some of that horse crap!

 

basically, there is no training.

 

Sirscrapntruckalot -

 

And to think the guy who trained the trainer had no experience either… its gotta be a snowball effect of bad information

 

I met a “so-called” trainer way back when my kids where in high school, he mentioned he was a trainer for a local trucking school, so I asked him how long had he been driving, he said he hasn’t driven, only to get his CDL. So I asked him how can you be a trainer if you have no experience, he said the school was short in trainers so he took the job. I just walked away with disbelief.

 

My trainer was pretty good he had several years experience.

 

Six months driving experience is all you need at Werner and they’ll give you a certificate..This was a few years back so I don’t know if they changed the process there.