How Much Experience Should A Trainer Have?

My point is that there's no need for it on this thread. You guys aren't doing anything now besides acting like complete jerks. Being corrected is one thing, constantly shoving mistakes in my face is something else. Get a freaking life and move on for the love of god.

 

Because members want to act like jerks and troll my posts. I did NOTHING to incite this. Anyhow, I reported these members.

 

Nope, sorry. I...am the only perfect being. If I were anymore perfect, I've have to be twins!

 

One more note on the subject:

For the most part, trainers with experience are a nice commodity to have, but you guys are forgetting a key aspect:

Requiring trainers to have at least 5 years of experience or more is going to create a short supply of trainers. Even shorter if you only hire trainers that actually want to teach instead of just using a student for a logbook. This means students would sit in a hotel or company terminal for months and months before they would get paired up with a trainer. I don't know of anyone that would be willing to sit that long without getting paid.

Phase II trainers don't teach students how to drive, as I previously stated. Phase II training is about how to run a truck. Trip planning, logs, etc. You don't need 20 years of experience to teach someone how to do a trip plan. Students should know how to drive when they upgrade out of Phase I.

Phase I trainers are the trainers that teach you how to drive. You need at least 1 year of driving experience to be a Phase I trainer.

 

You can't just pick and arbitrary number like 5 years. I knew a guy who had 30 years and didn't know jack. All he could do was shift and back up.

When I was at about a year I had a partner with 14 months experience. He was no good. I tried to teach him about HOS but he wouldn't listen.

I have 2 years and I'm confident I could teach a person how to be a trucker. You don't need to have experienced every little thing to be good. You just need to be able to think.

Now, that doesn't mean that I think everyone with 2 years is qualified. There is a lot more to it than just the number of years.

 

no surprise the industry is in the toilet..

 

When you have the FMCSA that wants to impose regulations such as CSA2010, you have no choice but to lower hiring standards in order to keep up with customer demands.

 

On this forum, as in real life, I generaly keep my mouth shut and my eyes open. But Im bored, so I guess I'll put in my .02.
In a fair and perfect world, yes, every trainer would have at least 5-10 years of safe driving experience. Unfortunately, real life is seldom fair, and far from perfect. Currently, driver turnover is hovering somewhere around 137%. This is due to a bunch of different factors,
(old timers retiring, new guys coming in with no clue, plain old frustration, etc.). with driver turnover so high, companies are forced to take on new students and shove them out the door with a minimum of real training, just to be competitive. having to deploy so many students, leads to a shortage of qualified trainers, therefore the companies lower their trainer standards just to keep up with student demand. Its a vicious cycle with the probable outcome of eventually having students teaching students. SO..... instead of arguing about how much experience is enough, how bout instead, we start opining on just to fix this problem. May or may not do any good for us here to come up with an answer, but, who knows? maybe some office pogue will come across this thread and learn something.
again just my .02

 

I definitely wouldn't say 1 year or even three. Let's do it the driver way by miles......500,000 accident free and no D<O<T shutdowns for logs or anything a driver could control. (maintenance excluded)

 

That is very well thought out. someone that has never flat bedded or ran a large tow truck would be equally lost trying to tell some one the proper way to flip a trailer or tie down a odd shaped piece of machinery if all thier exp was in pulling a Van OTR.