Not bad. Sounds like Werner when I started. They treated me good and I got lucky with them.
Recent info on Western Express?
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Those totals on miles represent "team" driving not training. While you are doing your 10 hour break, he is driving. While he drives, you are supposed to be resting.
How are you training while you are resting and how is he training while he is resting?
Please enlighten us.
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Ohh hell no, that's worse than crst and their "student teaching student" nonsense and for 34 cpm.... I can flip burgers for more than that and not die with dumb nuts is taking a selfie #truckerslife while doing 65 down the highway
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I have no issues with us running only 10 hours a day and shutting down. Often if the trainee is having problems sleeping in the moving truck I’ll park so they can be rested.
I will never use a trainee as a mileage mule. The more they learn the better and the harder we can run. That honestly gets them more prepared to be solo.Rocknroller4, TheRealPorkChopExpress, Gearjammin' Penguin and 3 others Thank this. -
My background in training roadracers is extensive. My teaching, tech inspection, and control driver/racer is also extensive. I do not #### around.
They’ve got no phone privileges on the truck until I say so outside of google maps. They want to take selfies or whatever they’ve got there 10. It’s not my fault other people don’t know how to set limits.TheRealPorkChopExpress and bzinger Thank this. -
When I started with them they wanted to start me at $.26 a mile. I was like WTF? But the time I had quit I was up to $.41 a mile. Mind you,also around that time their safety rating was better (around 16%,not above the threshold,but getting close,and they were warning drivers about it). Back then they a sizable fleet of Freightliners,Internationals and Volvos. I started with a Freightliner that had 215K miles on it already and when I quit I had a Volvo. They would always ask me if I wanted to ask me if I wanted to be a trainer but I would always say no,and for good reason.
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I believe running team as trainer should be outlawed...that's not training whatsoever...these co's are looking at cheap team ops as much as possible and calling it training..
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You know, here's an odd thought........
Since WE is largely a second chance company, ever stop to think that many of the opinions about the company come from "second chance" people?
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What trainers and trainees make of it is up to them.
But I’ll play along. Please describe how’d you make a profitable and successful start to training new drivers with a CDL and how that method that you propose would be not only superior to the current model by how you’d get it implemented.
I don’t know you, but right now unless you offer some experienced and enlightened knowledge or methodology you seem a bit angry. I could be wrong.TheRealPorkChopExpress, tramm01 and REO6205 Thank this. -
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