If you have a nasty trainer...

Can you imagine anyone wanting to live in a box in the subway? That's what some of these guys remind me of, when they fail to ask to be removed from these situations. "We like it so much, we're movin the whole family in"

I made a stop last Friday. It was company policy they look in my truck when exiting the gate. I was thinking...#### my truck is nasty. I really need to wash those floorboards.

The security guard told me that it was the cleanest truck she had seen in weeks. I was like, Whaaaat?

 

Since working at a truck stop, i have seen very few driver/trainers come thru. However, i have seen plenty of regular drivers, who seem not to care about what they look like, being PRESENTABLE, or how they smell. There are a few that I wonder why they even come into the store looking the way they do. All they are telling me, is they are there just to pick up a paycheck. They dont care about representing the company, or themselves.

And how many of them are so lazy they dont speak clearly. I have to ask them several times their truck numbers, etc. because i just cannot understand them.

TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR COMPANY, YOUR PROFESSION AND MOST IMPORTANTLY....


..........YOURSELVES

 

The stench helps ward off vampires.

 

Not really...cuz I've seen some of these trucks.

I have to admit...mine was fairly clean. The floor just needed a good scrubbing. I hate having dried red clay on my floorboard. And I dislike using mats anywhere but the sleeper. I use a large bathroom mat there.

I have a "shoe/boot scrubber" on my steps. But it can't get it all.

 

excellent idea, me to

 

still working on decking my truck out...

darn thing is wall to wall carpet. Got the stock mats up front. Don't have, but WILL, small throw rugs between the seats and in back.

Dust the dash and instrument panel every day (nothing on the dash but a small figurine my wife made for me and my GPS antenna - decided I don't want to munch the cord in the window or door)

vacuum the carpet every morning when I get up. Empty the reservoir into the trash, take the trash out. Gonna have to get a carpet brush or something. vacuum not powerful enough to pick up hair- and I have a lot of it. On my head.

2 things on the floor: Q-Com, Cooler. Q-Com is only there because I can't read it when it's sitting on the passenger seat. Cooler is on the floor because I can't reach it when it's on the bunk, and I can't quite reach INTO it when it's on the passenger seat.

Cubbies are closed and shelves are cleared when I'm driving.

Paperwork and truckstop guide in the door pocket. Atlas and laptop on the passenger seat.

Fire Extinguisher, gloves, multi-tool, padlock, and tire-thumper between driver's seat and door.

I see some of these other trucks and I have to wonder how the drivers even MOVE, much less pass a DOT inspection.

 

When I was a trainer I had over a million accident free miles. I had took the the time up front to explain to the rookie, this was my truck and my rules. I have alway believed in stopping at least once every 24 hours for a shower and at least get a little time out of the truck. Grumpy, no. My way or walk home. But when I would sign you off you were a driver that at least had a good base to build on. I knew that you could back into anywhere it was possible to put a truck without worry.

IMHO, you are a trainnee or apprentice for 3 to 5 years. So how can a trainee teach a trainee. Several companies like putting 2 new driver in the same cab.