New drivers arrogance

i heard the lady that tests on otis is a F-N #####!!! i went to dartmouth!! i forget what i brought i think i bought a cheapo watch to bring to the test. the nice thing i like about massachusetts is that if you failed (which i did twice), you dont have to redo everything.

 

i dont know about the A but for the B theres a 50 question test, you cant get more then 10 wrong, then 40 i believe on the air brake and you cant get more then 5 wrong.

 

which brings us back full circle....the newbies (SOME) get mad when we say that...just because u may have been driving 3 or 4 years and may be good , safe etc....and have SOME exp...you still dont have the exp of someone driving 10 or more years..just like a 10 yr driver doesnt have the exp of a 20 etc....then the newbies get an attitude about how some of the new drivers have more common sense than the older and ROUND AND ROUND WE GO!!!!!!! and the thing they dont get...this is the same thing they will be saying in 10 or so years from now...when they see new ones being "trainers or mentors".....

 

then this is new to me (the female at Otis)..trooper Hadley retired last year, and trooper Lavoie (who you must have had at Dartmouth) was going to Otis for a while...by the way, if you did not have trooper Lavoie, you had trooper Macedo he's retired now too.....you could have even had trooper Dudaubbo

i ain't been to Otis in over a year now, we mostly go to Dartmouth or at times Stoughton where trooper Eaton is at.

and true about failure in MASS, you only repeat what you failed, then go on the road.....

 

as a trainer my atitude was the school taught them the basics, I have to hone and polish them into quality drivers by filling in what they forgot , but still the first day alot of them flunked the basic pretrip , when they saw the truck sitting there hooked , what they do?? , basically hopped in the seat and started to buckle up . instant fail .. and I had my share of these . the best guys even filled out the required postrip paperwork and left a copy on the dash or seat . my rate of failure was about 60% from the schools . I had one bozo tell me well you hooked it up ... when he released the brakes he found out I just backed it under the pan , needless he didn't get hired . one of the other drivers who was hired by our college boy and given his road test ( which he was not qualified to give because he had no CDL but hey he had a degree in logistics!!!) wound up costing the company 12K , as the driver didn't check the pin in cold weather and pulled out of our lot ,well... he turned but the trailer went straight into the driveway across the street and slid into a pickup lucky it was empty and clean , needless college boy was assigned desk duty from that point out . ( I would have fired him ..)

 

i cant remember his name, this was back in 2007.

 

rerun what school do you teach at??

 

i started teaching in the early part of 2008, so you may have had Macedo...


let's just say i am familiar with the school you went to.....(if it's the one i am thinking about)...do you remember your classroom instructors name..???

their tuition now is $9,500

betcha you're glad it ain't now you're going...!!

 

it went up?? jesus F!!! parkers is 5k still. i went there to get a class B license, in highschool i got kicked out and put into a "bad" kid school, and some lady from mass rehab came in to see me said they'd give me 3k for job training i said ill get a cdl, i got the B. when im ready to make a jump to OTR i will but right now im content with local. i cant remember, he was an old hand, he always said "na mean" at the end of sentences which i found hilarious. i wanna say bill?? i dont know why that name comes up in my head...

 

O.K.,I can read....some people pay $9500 to "jump" into a world which isn"t all that great to begin with?? In comparison,it would be like me paying Uncle Sam $5000 before I enlisted for skydiving lessons..(I was a paratroop).What a rip-off.. I started in this from scratch,with my own sweat & blood 7 years ago,taught myself ,-on my own,-to secure flatbed freight,the rules etc.,etc.,and to think I Have thought I made the wrong choice entering this trucking field....Footnote.,even as recent as 2004,(when I started) I did not walk into a prospective employer and blow smoke up their ##s,I told them I was just starting out,knew nothing,and their response..-(You will figure it out)- while out there..