New soon to be swift trainee!

So I can help the next man perhaps. Maybe just maybe they won't get a bad mentor because im there to take a spot a bad trainer would have or could have filled and made new drivers training lives miserable. And then afterwards they would somehow find this site and say oh swift sucks when it had nothing to do with swift but what someone was in the role of training for. I'm not doing it for money, like I said above I make enough solo as it is. I'm paying off the last of my bills and have already saved up a few hundred dollars for a rainy day fund. I have been blessed, I'm not a taker I love giving back. How I was raised.

 

That is great you are enjoying your new career and working at Swift. But can you please share with us why you want to train others so soon? I shared my opinion that your 6 or 8 months is not enough experienceso no need to rehash. My only friendly advice is I hope your backing skills are top notch as you wouldn't want to be embarrassed in front of your students. I have been going this on and off for 7 years and don't feel I know enough to train a greenhorn. Maybe I'm just a slow learner but there things I have never done like chain a tire or slide a 5th wheel. Best of luck to you and I am not being sarcastic.

 

The answer is above you. My backing is pretty good had a good instructor in Indiana when me and my mentor went. I follow the rules swift has in place so I don't hit anything. Blessed so far. First thing I would want a student to know is im not perfect. There was only one man who was perfect on earth. And secondly. Where I mess up if they were smart students they would learn from my mistakes. My mentor wasn't perfect and he never tried to be. I don't have all the answers, never said I did. Wish I did but I don't. If a trainer ever told anyone he knew it all then he should stop training. People are looking for perfection and I guess that's why some marriages don't work out, some careers don't work out, especially with carriers... *ahem*

 

I was actually joking.....hence the winking smiling face, but if your rattled that easy, I hope you don't drive with the CB on.

 

I knew what the face was for, that's why I said if you were joking then bit... Read what was said after that. And no I don't have a cb, waste of money, who wants to hear people who feel, think, and act like they are Gods gift to trucking downing other drivers? Who are so full of themselves they don't get out and help someone who needs help? No thanks, but in talking about a cb, just proves the point of people acting like they know it all and have gotten lazy behind the wheel. I'm not that kind of guy nor driver. People want to act like training is so important, well, time for a few on here to grow up and realize its important. I take the idea and thought seriously. If you are going to say I need more experience, then when it comes down to talking about it does not one need to see how important it is instead of joking and playing around? Or did I miss something? Just a thought.

 

Wow...just wow

 

For someone who dosent like being disrespected you sure do make a lot of generalizations and assumptions about others

 

For someone who acts like they understand what I should and shouldn't do you really don't understand when someone has told you to step off.

 

In my comment did I not state I knew he would say he was joking or am I wrong for being right about those who sit in their trucks and bad mouth other drivers backing into spots at a truck stop instead of lending a hand to help? Let me know please? It's weird, y'all fault me for speaking the truth of what goes on on the cb but the guys who do the things are free to continue it. Y'all certainly are living a double standard. Sure not all, but with comments like these on here since my training announcement the little bitty wolves want to come out an play. Oh well.

 

Actually, you will need a CB for certain dropoffs, usually the bad ones that have you waiting for hours to unload your truck. But yes, a CB for on the road is almost entirely useless. Intelligent people usually get tired of listening to sentences that aren't complete without at least one f-word in it, usually two. But it does come in handy when there is a roadblock up ahead. Ask which lane is blocked and 90% of the time you will find that it is the other lane that is blocked than what they said. So take that other lane. I suggest you do what I did. Order those Great Courses tapes, CD's and DVD's. They are from the best lecturers in the country and are great to listen to during those long drives down the interstate. But turn them off and your radio while in heavy traffic and concentrate on your driving.