Swift Training

and they havent found you one in 2 weeks?

 

You don't think they did that thing that CRST did to MsViolet, do you? 2 weeks is a long time to starve someone out of a terminal. I worry you may have been fired and they didn't bother to tell you.

 

Make a phone call and ask.

 

get a decent e-cig, my mentor did not smoke and I used a good e-cig for the month I was with him. Not sure if all the Loves have them now but the one im at now sells kits with the vaporizer and ejuice. They work much better than using those cheap ones like blu or Njoy. I decided I wanted to stop smoking again and cut down using my ecig so I got supplies and im on day 2 of not buying cigs so far.


Get your priorities straight, you going to choose a cig over a job?


my trainer did not tell me to not smoke, i decided the day I got into his truck I wasnt going to except for my ecig. He said a few times "you know you want one" out of respect I never smoked and got into his truck smelling like it.

 

Wolfy, there is a very good chance that this mentor said that a smoker would not bother him and it was okay. The mentor might have used smoking for an excuse which would not have worked. If the mentor said smoking was okay and then all of a sudden changed their mind, I would see more problems down the road. I think he made the right choice getting off the truck. This from a mentor. Remember that the Mentor also says either smoker or non smoker, the same as the student. I actually had one student that was stranded at a terminal and I was asked if I would take her for the last 50 hours and she was a non smoker and I said that it was fine with me. They had me call her and she actually asked me to not smoke on MY truck for her time with me. No, she did not get on the truck and went home.

 

Get some nicotine gum, or an ecig. They'll help take the edge off and keep you from choking the life out of someone while suffering nicotine withdrawals. Ride it out and keep your eye on the prize, your own truck. Dealing with your mentor is just train wheels for dealing with DM's and Renta-pigs at recievers when your out on your own. I had to learn meditation techniques a few years back myself to calm down and not let the inner rage get out of control.

As far as the drive test goes here in Nevada you have to do all the skills when you test. Straight, offset, and dock backing; parallel park ect; plus the way you have to do the PTI here is a PITA. I've been a equipment and truck mechanic for some years now and the hardest thing for me was saying what I was checking the way they wanted to hear it. I can do a DOT annual inspection in under 20 minutes, explaining what I was checking to the gal at the DMV made that a lot longer(or at least it seemed that way).