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Very few companies will hire without a school or recent. When a training company sends you home for backing problems and you have no school at all it is going to be hard to find a job. Even coke or pepsi is going to del in very tight small ma and pa stores. If he has a backing problem and does not work it out even if he gets a job like I mentioned if he tags things he will get the boot and not be able to get work.

The best thing I know at this point is go to a accredited school. Get on with a good training company and work out those issues with a trainer. Not a company like usa that will run like a team. It sounds like if someone works with him long enough he will get the hang of it.

 

He did 200 HOURS with a trainer and still couldnt back up? What a pi$$ poor trainer. Your hubby has a tough row to hoe, but it isnt an impossible task. Good luck.

 

was it a specific backing skill or all of them?

Mikeeee

 

I think if your husband is serious about trucking then he needs to go to school. Especially considering his current status of a uni-directional trucker. All bull aside like Notarps said above, most companies are not going to hire him unless he has gone to an accredited school. This is a standard set by all the insurance companies not necessarily the trucking company itself. There are many different options for schooling so I would get cracking on the decisions. Good luck to you (husband).

 

I had alot of trouble backing at first. I just needed practice to give me some confidence. You won't necessarily get enough backing time at schools or with a trainer. It would be nice if your husband knows someone in trucking who would be willing to just spend an afternoon with him. There is no big mystery to backing. For years I'd look back there and say out loud to myself, "ok my trailer needs to go left so I'll pull up right." Also, I don't know what it's like out there now but I didn't get much practice time in school or with a trainer, so whenever I had to sit somewhere waiting to get loaded I'd ask a guard or yard dog for permission to practice my backing on their lot out of the way of everyone else. Two places I got to practice a lot at were a shoe factory in PA and a auto parts plant in NJ. Those were better places to get out and look as many times as needed and learn than trying to get out of everyones way at the truck stop or busy dock. Good luck to you and your husband. It sounds like all he needs is just a little one on one time and then with some confidence maybe he could go back to his trainer at USA. The other posts are correct, if he can't get this right with them then he will have to go to another school.

 

Tell your hubby, that some drivers have a hard time learning to back up. Its just something that takes longer for some drivers to learn, thats all.

 

Indeed. If I were training someone, they WOULD be able to back into a street slot when I got done teaching them, not a simple alley or slot dock. Bad trainers should be taken out behind the chemical shed and shot!