Just a question...

You can definitely get your CDLs together, but I am sure you’d each have to go out with a trainer before you team together.

 

Covenant Transport and Schneider both do that and will pay for cdl school.
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Click here > How to Pay for Truck Driving School - schneiderjobs.com

 

No. The one has to go through school to get cdl then hired to be trained. If it was me who already with the company and approved to train spouse pending test in 12 weeks then that is what happened. If both of us got CDL in school and hired together, then seperate trainers by company for a while.

Otherwise you are blind leading the blind, both of you with no experience yet.

 

Wrong X. She can do it just like she says.
Schneider will put them to work tomorrow.

 

They would too. I still stay by my guns saying that two newbie husband and wife would be separately trained. Then teamed when deemed ready. If Schneider put them to work first day knowing very little then Schneider can and must expect preventable that first year.

That is not to say it did not happen. I maintain that it is better for both to be trained separately by the company because there is usually a prescribed "Company way" to do it.

Also it took me about two to three weeks to build a fast teammate out of my spouse according to her ability but never pushing beyond what she could or could not do. In good time she was a good teammate with a certain set of limitations which if she stayed longer out there would have taken care of itself with experience. Most of my part in teaching her was falling back on what I already knew of wherever we are going into. It makes it easier. If neither person in a team has ever been to say Hunts Point across the GWB, it will be a difficult adventure for them to do it.

 

It would be much smarter for the husband and wife to choose to be trained separately.
That way they each have their own experience to draw on and to help the other when they do become a team.

 

I expect pretty much any company that hires new drivers expects preventables the first year.

20 maybe 30 years ago the industry standard companies went by as to the cost of putting a new driver in a truck was 8500 bucks. I am sure this figure has gone up considerably.

 

They also expect to fire many of those drivers because of those accidents.

 

One comes to mind how little a paint chip can burn a great building such as a trucking company when they take the time to count the beans over the cost.