Some questions about my mentor

I have one of these and recommend it to all trainees!-http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7214008&CatId=5967 Protect yourself!

 

R U serious ??????

 

This device gives you a eye witness to any shenanigans, Remember its someones word against yours. This device makes what happens clear! My mentor started going to sleep in the bunk for up to 8 hours at a time, after I had only driven two days in training! in hindsight it was lucky I didn't end up killing someone in the Chicago rush hour traffic. It sure was useful having a video to show the DM of me driving without the trainer in the seat for hours at a time! I burned the video to disk and sent it in the mail to the DM. CYA! as a bonus you can even use this device for all your paper work stuff!. Trainees have a right to competent training, The trainer has a right to teach a student his skill and have the student pay attention to his or her instruction and show he or she is learning with feedback. The public has a right to drive on the nations highways as safe as possible!. Incompetent trainers or abusive trainers have no place in the trucking industry!. Good trainers however, are worth their weight in gold!. If as a trainer you do your job to the best of your abilities you have nothing to fear from a device like this, But if you screw around and don't do your job this device can be devastating to your trucking carer.

 

I heartily disagree. No one works all day every day. Yes, the student is there to learn, but everyone needs some downtime. Plus, when a driver agrees to mentor/train, the driver is also agreeing to share the truck with another person. This includes making space for that person to be comfortable. It's such an unreasonably hard nosed approach to training to say " you will work every minute you are awake for the next 6 weeks with no time off at all- oh, and you mustn't have any toys with you, either!"

 

Hopefully, your "tomorrow" will bring better experiences than your yesterdays. If not...

 

Yup. Feeeeed the paranoia.

 

WTH you talking about? Are you questioning how I train? You don't have to let the student use an inverter if you choose not to do so. The top bunk is for the student! They are on the truck to learn! Stuff like notebooks should be used on off time when they are at a terminal or truckstop!

Students can use my inverter to charge their phone when I am not charging mine but as far as charging a notebook that is up to me whether or not I allow them to do it.

The mentor has every right to not allow her to use an inverter especially if he has to idol the truck or get up to start it because the battery alarm keeps going off.

Students should understand that they are on the mentor's truck does not matter if he is a lease driver or company and they are not entitled to just plug in anything they want.

Talk to any student I have trained and I guarantee you they had fun out here. So don't question how I train just sounds like more to this story than what we know.

Most likely I would allow a student to charge his notebook I am only saying the mentor can say no and the student should just respect his decision and get on with the training.

The poster that stated you are suppose to share? Yea to a certain extent but allowing a student to use there own inverter or to use the mentor's fridge for an example is up to the mentor not the student.

For example I have a student right now who thinks he can just put things where he wants to in my cabinets and closet. He also thinks he can just use my fridge to put his stuff in.

Wrong!! You ask first! I am not required to do this. It's the top bunk and put your stuff on the seat every night. If I have the space then I will tell them but if I do not your clothes don't go right beside mine hanging up?

Get my point? I can tell you right now if she is complaining about him running his stuff and she can not use her inverter she won't make it!

 

They get plenty of time off on my truck! last one spent two days in Vegas with me and the time of his life. We eat and play at Casino's and have fun! But training on my truck comes first! There is a time for work and a time for having fun!

All I was saying is mentor is not required to let here charge anything like a notebook if he chooses not to let here and she should just get on with her training and charge it when she can at a terminal or truck stop.