Refresher Course?

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  1. Labrador

    Labrador Medium Load Member

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    Does this mean that you team drive with the trainer? Or do you and the driver do the 14 hour clock. If the 14 hour clock day, do you you both sleep in truck or go to a motel?
     
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    snowmantrucking101 Heavy Load Member

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    Don't mess with May. They're full of their own crap. PTL, Swift, Schneider, and several more will take you w/no refresher. With a trainer for x amount of weeks for paid training. Then roll on, on your own.
     
  3. Labrador

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    Alright, I will take a look at those companies. Thanks.
     
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    You have already obtained your license, tell her go to where shine is not shining, if you CAN DRIVE, look other way, if CAN NOT DRIVE, take the coerce, but with the company that will be interested in hiring you. Just a guess.
     
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    Take the course, have the company pay for it as she offered, then if they don’t work out, you have it done for the next company.

    Don’t overthink this.
     
  6. Labrador

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    I have pay for it, and that is a lot of cash to part with. They will pay me back over months, would probably take over a year.
     
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    I don't know if they still do but I heard that Abilene used to take on drivers without recent experience and give them the refreshing/training they need. You can ask in the Abilene thread in the Favorite Company forum to see if they still do.
     
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    If a driver can pass the road test given by the company that should be the end of it, but not in Clown World! It doesn't take that much time in the seat to get back in the driving groove if you were any good in the past. Yes, I'm sick of an industry that cries "driver shortage", but it's really just a ploy publicity to get cheap labor.
     
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    tscottme Road Train Member

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    Usually you and trainer will live in & take turns driving the same truck. You will sleep in the bunk while trainer drives. Then, trainer will sleep in bunk while you drive. Some companies use double bunk trucks. Some companies use single bunk truck. Sometimes the company pays for a hotel rather than sharing a single bunk truck. It varies by company and by what type of job/equipment.
     
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  10. Labrador

    Labrador Medium Load Member

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    It us just that Team driving doesn't really seem like training.