How many PTI/Driving hours to pay for to pass?

For all the talk on here about steering wheel holders I don't understand why there's no respect a fellow professional driver. Last I heard success in OTR trucking involves logs, hos requirements, understanding freight lanes, inspecting and protecting loads, living conditions of being on the road for 12+ hours, and managing and setting expectations between the conflicting interests of clients, your company, and yourself. Of all the people who quit OTR how many failed because they were tired of shifting or backing vs those that quit because they didn't understand the lifestyle changes and supplementary work? Werner's dollar tree/general driver's don't count


I asked how long it took people to learn to drive shift, and back sufficiently to pass a road test because I have no experience with that. Obviously that's the biggest difference and that's why I'm asking about it. Screaming about how I don't have any driving experience is pointless... I'm in the new drivers forum asking how long it took people to learn the basics not how to start a holier-than-thou rant.

If you want someone who cares go screech into your cb about how much of a superior super trucker you are and how inept D class profession driver's are. Sure people would love to hear about it.

 

Any decent teacher learns from their students. Sometimes it's a new way to memorize things or a new way to see things. Most of the time it's a reminder that people can be really dumb and can look at a problem and come up with a "solution" that introduces 10 new problems.

Go ahead and keep dismissing everything you're too lazy to learn the value of. I'm sure it's a real marketable personality trait. I'll keep learning from everyone and getting better. You're welcome to sit on your experience as an excuse to stagnate because you're at the twilight of your career. I hope when I get to 27 years experience I'm learning still instead of yelling at the kids to get off "my" grass. Probably will have to learn semi-autonomous electric trucks by then assuming everyone hasn't nuked each other back to the stone age.