Smoking in truck while training

What s even worse than the stench of smoke in a truck is that nicotine film on the windows.

 

What if there aren't any available non-smoking trainers when you need one? That's what happened to me. I needed the work and went with a smoker anyways. Sometimes you gotta do what's you gotta do.

 

Smelling cigarette smoke makes my head hurt and clogs my sinuses. My trainer would smoke but held the cigarette to the partially opened window and it helped a lot sucking out the smoke. He also kept his truck clean so there weren’t a lot of ashes laying around. A friend used my truck at work and did the same, you could hardly tell it had been smoked in.

 

With LTI were I work it is actually easier to get a nonsmoker as a trainer than a smoker. I would think with the laws the way they are due to secondhand smoke you could demand nonsmoker.

 

Either the smoke is gonna kill you or the unhealthy lifestyle. Might as well take both for a faster way out

 

I was 52 when I went out with trainer. He was as considerate as he could be under the circumstances. I was only on his truck 9 days and the company soloed me out. So it wasn't too bad.

Good luck to you in this industry, sounds like you're going to need it.

 

At a truck driving school, you are paying to be educated. In a trucking company, you are getting paid to be educated. Different scenarios. Different results. A guy can sit home making no money if he wants, or he can do what he's gotta do until he gets his own truck. Lawyering up will take more time than its worth. Like ScooterJones said, sometimes ya gotta do what's ya gotta do. And it boils down to I live in my truck. Many more days a year than I am home. It is not an office. It is my residence. If a co-driver won't abide, he won't ride. It is what it is.

 

Sorry for the double post. I don't know how I did that.