Option for team driving training instead of academy for new drivers with permit?

This very same question was asked yesterday by someone else. I tagged you on that thead.

 

The academy teaches you enough to pass the test... trainer's teach you how to survive and hopefully not commit too much personal injury.

Let's take that a step further...if you drive team with your trainer, you don't learn... because one of you is always asleep.

Pick a company that doesn't dispatch you and your trainer as a team...

 

Actually have thought of that one myself so great minds do think alike huh? Why don't some folks offer to train on the job and then pay for there lessons by their driving time and assisting the main driver. That's what the industry is lacking big time is professional drivers willing to train up and coming drivers the rights and wrongs on the road.

 

The reason it's almost impossible to find an 0/0 willing to do that anymore is because of Elogs and insurance. A trainee posted this week an 0/0 was training him, but had to stop because his insurance company found out about it. The old days are over.

 

Dallas/Ft.Worth is a great area for cdl schools; either private schools or trucking company schools.
You posted you're scheduled for an academy; which one?
Roehl Transport pays their students $500.00 a week to attend their academy. This isn't a pay advance either, that you have to pay back. It's a salary that you keep, because you're an employee from day one. Maybe they still have their school in Grand Prairie,TX.
There's others to consider for your area:
FFE (Frozen Food Express)
Western Dairy Transport - www.wdtmilk.com
Millis Transfer
also some others

 

3 weeks is ridiculous. FFE was 10 days classroom. If you had your permit they cut 2 days off that. Call them.

 

I just finished CDL school and passed Dmv test on February 15th ,I start with Knight Transportation Monday morning. I’ll be with a trainer for 4 weeks, from I understand I’ll be doing all the driving while the trainer trains. He doesn’t crawl into sleeper berth while the trainer is driving.

 

Is this still legal in all states? I know megas have been pushing for a CDL school standard and trying to make it mandatory. I had a spirited debate on this issue at a national event in 2016 with a safety manager. I vehemently disagree that a trucking license should be treated as a red-seal trade and cost $15,000 over 2 years.

I trained my co-driver (wife) when she got her permit. At that time, 5 years ago, it was just a class 5 license (cars, under 4500kg) with an airbrakes endorsement. We spent 9 months navigating the treachery of a Canadian winter learning shifting, backing, pretrips, paperwork, plowing snow with an steel bumper, blowouts, air leaks, arseholes on the loading dock, sweet talking your dispatcher, etc.

I worked for a very small (15-20 truck) mostly regional operation, Canada only, and mainly dedicated routes hauling mail to the same 8 post offices across eastern Canada. With the boss’s blessing, of course, and the understanding that if she ripped anything up - I was on the hook. She didn’t, and in the snow she puts just about every driver stateside to shame.

We’ve since moved on to greener ($$$) pastures, and she’s wowed every recruiter on the roadtest and pretrip, especially since they know she didn’t churn out of a CDL mill (like me).

 

This supposed to be like that but not with Knight! They should be reported to the government safety department! I been driving like a team since a day 4th !