My experience training with a trainer

Stick it out and get it over with. When you get you own truck, hell freezes, night becomes day. Many of us had horrible trainers and it sucks ###.

Mine didn’t show me a thing, expecting me to know every from school. Yelled when I took too long to back. He didn’t like using GPS so it was written directions. He had his tejano music blasting all the time, even when I needed to concentrate on maneuvers. I caught him jerking off one time, or at least I came back to the truck to smell it (turned around). He straight up said he’s doing it for the money. And more. I hated every freaking minute of it, but it could have been worse. Finishing that was like a veil of cloud lifting.

 

I have questions…

1. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your trainer’s driving ability as a whole?

2. What thing(s) that you did not know before getting into his truck that your trainer taught you?

3. Does your trainer explain WHY? Or does he just tell you to do it this way?

4. Which part of the job makes you the most anxious?

5. Have you hit anything?

6. When driving in silence, where does your mind go?

“But Six, what do these questions have to do with my stinky trainer???”

Years ago, they used to have these 3 day CDL schools and they take a 3 day grad, put him in a truck and send his arse down the road. Now, they have students go to schools for weeks and ride with trainers for months. WHY?

It takes 60 days to reset the average human default settings. You can function in silence. Most cannot. When you get your rig, play the radio, but make sure that you don’t lose the ability of driving in silence.

You will make it through this. You will never forget Three Day Stinky.

Luck in battle.

 

Your 3 weeks in, Almost done ! Gut it out and then you can look back and laugh.
I was with my trainer 6 weeks. We took a week off in Florida lol. He was worried about every mile and every penny.
Spent a balls freezing night in cinncinati because he wouldn’t idle the truck for heat. Thank god for my zero degree sleeping bag.

 

Did you poop on your drivers seat? @otterinthewater may have suggestions

 

Hang in there. You almost got it.

 

I had a good double quarter pounder in Oklahoma. I wanna say it was Tulsa.

 

Training for the money or jerking off for the money? I'd hate to find out I've been missing out on a potential income stream.

 

Not unless there’s the words “commercial Buffalo” in there somewhere on the job description.

 

Hey.....I don't remember training a guy named Kyle!