Once training is done - how long before getting a truck?

i got sent to columbus to train for elogs and simulator, and a log class if they didn't give him the log class. not ever terminal gives all three. i didn't get paid for the day and half i was there. the simulator and elog class is required to take after you go solo. until you test out and go solo you cant take them. the log my class i am not sure or. i could not take all the classes on thesame day they were full. they wont plan you if you are training. i believe you have 3 months to do them. part of being new. as for the mentor keeping him on the truck. my trainer also tried that. the minute they found out i was done they planned us home to test out. like i believe i said every terminal has different orientations sorry for that. they dont pay your husband by the week they pay him by the day. every day he has to send in a mac 27. if he forgets his driver manager has to fix it. i wish you husband luck with the dedicated route, i am also dedicated and i have have been over the road for the last three weeks. i am sure the dedicated loads are going to mentors or people rated higher than me, or least thats what my dm said. every persons situation is different.

 

He has to do another log class after he gets released to solo, but you get four or five months to do it and can be done at a lot of different terminals. I've been solo 5 months and still haven't done the log class if that gives you an idea. The simulator he should get out of the way ASAP. It's like a video game that puts you into a ridiculously hard driving situation, you crash and the instructor tells you what to do in the real life situation. I think I had ice, a drunk in the oncoming lane swerving at me, a trash can rolling across the road and a suburban that decided right then was a good time to drive back on the road from the shoulder.

 

Thats exactly how it was for me, sim class when I upgraded and log class at some point, think I have until October to do it so I believe its 6 months. My sim class didn't even involve a simulator though, just watched a bunch of videos and did this computer quiz on what I had just watched. They didn't make me do the elogs yet even though I have the new qualcom, so far I have been successful at avoiding that class and terminals in general. I find them to just be depressing places with a bunch of drivers ######## about everything you can think of.

 

I'm still a newb around here but I don't think that az meant any harm with his original post. I have seen just about everything he has posted and he seems to be helpful and a nice guy. I think you may be taking what he said concerning note taking out of context. Seems to me peeps around here call it as they see it and I for one can respect that. Just my thoughts.

 

I hope everything works out for him. There have been slot of horror stories on here about mentors. Everything from minor things like mentors that have you drive nothing but nights to a story where a mentor stranded a man in his truck for 3 days with no bathroom, food or water. The one constant I've seen is that swift doesn't tolerate it and will get him a new mentor if they can't get along.

 

There's no such thing as a perfect mentor. Mentors are human, just like the rest of us. Extreme circumstances should be objected to, but little petty annoyances are going to happen whomever he ends up with. As long as the guy is teaching him what he needs to know about Swift, and helping him refresh his driving skills, thats what counts. A little OCD can be tolerated, surely?