How not to complete Prime training miles.

After completing 20k training miles (this guy had "experience," later I will explain what little he had) I dropped my trainee at the terminal on Saturday to begin the upgrade process to getting his own truck.

I get a message from my FM on Thursday, that things were not working out with the trainee and Prime was giving him the boot. He also requested I call him to discuss the situation. Uh, oh!

I was already worried that my skills might be called into question as this guy would forget things after showing him and have him doing things several times. I've had a couple trainers and they have done great, but management can sometimes have a short memory. However I had already set the groundwork by laying out to my dispatcher his weaknesses and that he should gradually work the guy up to a full workload. Anything rushed might be a disaster.

Turns out the trainee went on a "bender!". After being alerted that the trainee had missed every class so far, my dispatcher called the trainee to find out what's up. My dispatcher said the guy was totally drunk and he could hear it through the phone.

Security was sent to the company motel to escort him to a Grayhound bus home and they found him in his underwear, with booze bottles everywhere. I believe the quote was "50 gallon size trash bag of "bender" evidence.

So, to confirm, as I heard "bus" mentioned, I said "so he's done, fired and on a bus?". FM responded "No, you are correct on two of the three."
This confused me, but after a pause my FM stated that they had to wait for him to sober up before he could get on the bus. "it seems he may have had to be carried out of his room."

I never saw this coming, however I did see a major foul up in his future (he was an ok driver) I sincerely thought it would end up with him ruining a whole load, maybe screwing up customer relations or crossing the Pawtucket bridge.

I discussed the drinking policy, but he told me he didn't drink.

So I

 

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If I hear anything else about him, I will update. Doubt he will be calling me.

BTW I did talk to him Monday morning, and he told me his first class was at 1300 after lunch. I told him to call me if he had any problems. Conversation was so short I couldnt say if he was blitzed at the time