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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thirdreef, post: 3533627, member: 119533&quot;]This is what&#039;s wrong with today&#039;s truck driver... And they are being set up for failure. Every newbie needs to learn on trucks where the jobs are for newbies. Vans, refers, straight trucks. They are the easiest to do everything and will give the largest chance of a permanate&nbsp; job. Learning open trailers like flats can be learned later. In a van that load falls on the floor.. It just rolls around. On a flat it could hit a car.and when one gets more experience then they can learn live loads. And when a van or a refer tips over, it&#039;s easier to clean up boxes or cantaloupes . About half the tank loads are hazardous and will take many hours or days to clean up. But all these companies care about is finding somebody to fill that seat, no matter what it is. Then that poor smuck will be trained for a few weeks and let go, with the dispatcher saying.. Ohhh your the best. Just to move that load. Then one day that newbie will get so far over their head that they will start to drowned .. Like being on a 7% hill that is longer than 3-4 miles. Or on an icey road like they get in Michigan .. So no wonder Schneider has such a turn over rate . Guess those newbies get tired of changing their shorts. As they were being set up for failure.. Not by themselves, but by companies that just want a load moved. And you say that you train them? How far west do you train to? Because I get tired of talking people off these hills west of Kansas that they were never trained to do. Or how to chain up, or secure their loads on a trailer! Or with some, having to load that trailer for them. Where&#039;s that training? Or how to neutralize that corrosive load if a little spilled and needs to be cleaned up?or will they need a hazmat team to clean it up.&nbsp; Do you do training for any type of haz mat training.. Either the 8 hour or 24 or 40 hour OSHA training? Do you train how to properly wear PPE and have respirator sizing and training? Do you train for ullage ? Or just innage? Ya see get I get stuck with these people along the side of the&nbsp; road or in some shippers yard, trying to help them.. So when are they going to be trained, before they are let go by them selves? Or should I just leave them and let the company send out some body? Because I can do that also.but see I have a problem .. I don&#039;t want anybody to fail or get hurt or worse. So I will still spend time on the side of the road or shippers yard, not doing my job.. but TRAINING THE NEW GUY? And try to keep his head above water. Maybe I ought to send their company a bill for my lost time..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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