Need a new trainer badly

Government spies ! LOL

 

Good deal,I take back what I said about Prime.If something like this happens again,don't give company a moments peace till you get off the trk or any safety issue for that matter.More companies then not don't worry like they should because its not them holding a CDL,it's not them worried about losing their job.Many in this industry that don't drive trk really have no clue just how serious the laws are and don't care.

 

I thought tnt trainees were suppose to be ready to run team? I was told they were guaranteed $600/wk based on 5000mi/wk of which the l/o is responsible for half unless under 5000mi then l/o pays more because they didnt run 5000mi. So a trainee in tnt that wasnt ready to meet those obligations in my opinion was turned loose from psd too soon. If I was training a tnt student he would have to be ready to do this or he's costing me more than he's making me.

 

I believe you're actually supposed to teach them something Dan. They're not just cheap labor/truck slave.

 

Well my understanding from Prime is tnt is for mileage experience not teaching per se. Otherwise why push the 5000mi/wk expectation? Not saying a student on my truck wouldnt learn something but he would be expected to hold up his end of the driving obligation.

 

you can't train from the sleeper

 

I would expect that comes after you uphold the "TRAINER" part of the obligation, so that they are capable and proficient enough to carry out the driving part of the obligation.

 

They are if you were their instructor. Instructors that take their students as TNT trainees have already spent almost 3 weeks sitting next to them with student behind the wheel and know what they can do and can't do once they have their CDL.

If you were not the trainee's instructor, would you just rack out and go to sleep with only Prime's word that they were ready to run? Or even just the trainee's assurance that he knows what he's doing?

B seats get the training $600 or .12/mile right away as they've got their CDL thru Prime and they have some idea how Prime works driving Prime trucks for a couple weeks while getting there CDL.

C seats start out their first 4 weeks at $500 or .10/mile. They've graduated from another school, have no Prime experience... and do 10k more TNT miles than the PSD grads.

 

Sounds like the TNT trainers need to find out what the PSD instructors do and don't do. I was told that all the PSD instructor is responsible for is getting the trainee to pass the CDL test. My Instructor was surprised every time he stopped and I jumped out of the rack to learn loading, strapping, tarping and unloading. I just looked at him like he was insane, I was there to learn Flatbedding........

 

Ive trained at another company before and ran as a team but no I didnt just get in sleeper behind them. I typically try to average 800mi a day and expect the student to run his hours available. I also instructed in backing when we parked or had free time. I never spent the whole time student was driving in the sleeper.