May trainers! UNITE!

all you guys have been truckers for less then 2 years. or so it says on your profiles....and you are trainers?

Just curious.

 

Yep....Amazing..

 

To those that are balking at two years experience and being a trainer; how much experience is required in your opinion in order to be qualified as a trainer? I am not a trainer, but I am curiouse as to your opinion.

Dozzer

 

At central refrigerated u can train right after u solo out now that's ridiculous

 

I wouldn't let anyone with out 500k miles in snow, ice, cities like NY, passes like Look Out in winter in MT and at least some mech experience... under their belt teach anything about trucking. JMHO NOT AN INSULT!

A person knows nothing about trucks if all one did is go to a school and then get on with a mega carrier two years ago. Trust me on this. Don't take it as an insult but as advice. Save this post and place it some were safe. Come back and read it in 5 years and then tell me what you knew your first 3 years as a driver. Then post up what you know with 5 years under your belt.

As for the car biz I find that funny. I was in the car biz for years. I was a salesmen, straight sales, then closer, then desk manager then used car manager. Then I owned my own lot here in Portland Oregon. I was turning about 20 cars a month by my self.
SO I know a thing or two about the car biz and agree with you on that one LOL There are plenty of old farts that know nothing about change.

As for my experience I have 2 years as a yard hostler full time moving 53 footer back wards all day.
1 year dump truck local work with over size loads on occasion.
2 years local can work in city traffic all day
2 years otr running a dedicated route to Montana, Idaho, and Canada. 2300 miles a week like clock work for the last two years..... with electronic logs.

here are some trucks I drove.
1989 fld 9 speed (my own truck I ran under my own authority and the one in the avatar)
1995 peterbilt 10 speed
1970 yard goat
2006 Columbia
1999 kw 18 speed dump with pup
2006 kw t800 10 speed
2012 Volvo 10 speed current.

With that said.
I still don't know sht compared to some of the guys out there. LOL And thats the truth. As much as I hate to see some one out arch me it is true.

 

Is 160 hrs in truck driving school enough time and experience to grant an individual a Class A license? Those are the minimum standards you know.

 

That's how I got mine.
Your being condescending now. FUNNY guy. My argument is not about schools its about them taking on a new drivers....

But that's how this industry got were it is today, cause companies like his are cheap and don't want to pay for proper training for their drives and don't want to invest the money in a drivers long term skill set.

They just pick guys out of a pool from trucking schools, stick you in a seat with a guy who has less then 2 years otr experience and tell you to figure it out. That's not fair to you as a student or the trainer (cause he ain't getting paid what a trainer should make). Or the rest of the industry.....

I finished school and went with a trainer for Gordon. He was a seven year vet otr just with that company alone. I still don't know what he knew then.
I'm just trying to give you guys some input. Not bashing on you at all.