I left my trainer

Agreed. Do you have your hard copy CDL yet?

 

Tell your dispatcher you want an american trainer THERE'S SOME real winners IN THAT CATAGORY AS WELL from what gets posted on here at times

 

The company I work for actually has an interview process involving trainers/trainees. I met four guys (all of them willing to take me on), but I settled on the second trainer I met. Trainers 1, 3 and 4 each talked to me for 30-45 minutes, but trainer #2 I spoke with for over an hour. He was my age (51), asked me about my personal life, we talked about sports, what I liked to eat, our kids/families (no politics or religion at the interview), really we talked more about our mutual interests and didn't really discuss the company, money or driving too much during the interview. I approached it as an opportunity to interview him just as much as it was an opportunity for him to interview me. Remember, you are essentially picking out a roommate that you will have to share very tight quarters with for a month or so. For me, it was a good decision, we had a couple of very minor disagreements over the next few weeks (mostly over the way I was setting up to back into a dock or once for following too closely in heavy traffic), but we worked through them. Most of our "tongue-n-cheek" disagreements were more about where or what we were going to eat on our breaks...

Frankly, I think all companies should do this when assigning a trainer to a trainee. Too many companies just tell a trainee to go home and that they'll call them when they have a trainer for them. Then they call the trainees and tell them to meet so-and-so at whatever truck stop at whatever time and they expect you to climb into a rig with some person you have never met or even talked to. That to me is a recipe for disaster.

Also, not to toot my own horn, but I was told later that one of the reasons all four of the trainers I interviewed with that day were willing to take me on as a trainee was because I was dressed appropriately. I wasn't wearing a stained up t-shirt (I had on a polo shirt), was clean shaven and was wearing jeans and work boots. That made a big impact on those guys. ...Just food for thought to future trainees that may read this.

 

I would think since you left his truck he made some stuff up about you to tarnish your reputation with your company( I would look for another company in the meantime).

 

My boss is black. He runs only teams. Anyways he is pretty cool he only groups us up by our race. If he cant get the same race he tries to get similar cultures (different races but born here, etc).

I respect him for that. It shows honesty.

 

I don't understand why do that, why not just send people out on a 1 day trip together and see if they are compatible and like teaming.(also by segregating people by skin color is racist doesn't matter the color of your skin when you do it)

 

Oh sure, go to all the hassle of calling the cops, trying to take him to court, etc. etc. I hate to break it to you bud, but this would be strictly a he said/he said type of thing, that legally, would never get to first base. Unless there is some physical evidence, or the would be slapper cops to saying that, it is a non starter.

The OP did the right thing.

 

So what if its racist. He has been in the industry 10+ years and all of those years he has owned trucks and employed drivers.

Obviously he learned from experience.

 

If I remember correctly, you went to a private CDL school. If this is true, then why did you go with a training company after graduation? So many good companies to choose from and avoid boot camp a second time.

 

One day in a truck doesn't show compatibility. The last thing trucking needs is political correctness. Seems the black terminal manager couldn't care less about political correctness and instead chooses to run the terminal in an efficient,smart manner. Probably educated in a private school instead of a politically correct public school. He matches his team drivers by looking at the big picture and probably has very few problems later such as what Swift, CRST, England etc. have to go through.