In training and nervous about a lot.

@bryan21384 is a former Western driver that can give solid advice.

 

Confidence will come with time, until you lose it by breaking things. When you get on your own, do the best you can to plan ahead of where you’re gonna stop and do a recon of what that truckstop looks like on a satellite view. Have a fallback plan. Whenever you’re stopping in the middle of the day, and there are two or three open spots, side-by-side, blindside back into those spots. This will get you confidence and an opportunity to blindside back and not have to worry about breaking into things. Get to understand the relationship of your tandems and their position and how that affects backing and also pulling out. Tail swing can get you in a lot of hurt if your tandems are too far forward. If you’re pulling a spread axle 48’, you don’t have to worry about it that much . None of those ladies ever grew up, wanting to be a hooker. Usually they’re pretty doped up on drugs. Whenever they get out of that life, they’re never gonna look back at it, as a good time. They’re going to try to want to forget. Partake in the prostitution is just not a good thing. Not for them, not for you.

 

20 - 25 days of training....left?

In that case -- please accept my sincerest congratulations!

At Schneider -- I was out with a trainer for LESS THAN 5 DAYS.

-- L

 

Every time the truck stops you need to back it into a parking spot.

Are you trying to cure your trainer or learn a new job? Focus on learning. Stop filling your head with stories, true though they may be. Watch backing videos from trucking schools & trucking companies. You need to internalize the actions needed to move the trailer left while backing and move trailer right while backing. Just find the videos that teach that without the extra talking. Having 6 people tell you 7 ways to back will just confuse you.

 

You don't get to decide when you will be parked for the day. The customers taking their sweet time, traffic, weather, and your start time & HOS of service decide approximately when you are out of hours and must stop.

 

In my opinion, you should be doing all the backing whether it's at a shipper, receiver, truck stop. Nothing teaches like experience.

Yes, a lot of places are very tight. You navigating them will help teach you the size and maneuverability limitations of the large vehicle you are driving. This will be essential when you're on your own and without a second set of eyes watching what you were doing.

Try to plan your trips the best you can, but don't bank on getting out of a warehouse by a certain time in order to maintain your plan. Things happen, things run late, you have to improvise on the fly. Have back up plans. Have back ups to your back up plans.

 

No idea how that doesn't bite them in the rear horribly.

 

Like other person said, ask if you can do all the backing. Hopefully you trainer gets out of truck and helps you back. Basically make sure you don’t hit anything or get messed up in backing.

I don’t even see the ladies of the night anymore at truck stops. Your trainer must know were they all are. Kinda funny but kinda sad when you want to get driving experience.

 

He won't be training much longer..
Just till the syphilis takes his sight.
Tell him to get a hotel with an escort and you can practice backing in the parking lot while he does his thing.