Terrible experience, US Express

Why didn't you ask for another trainer? You can't blame the company if they haven't received complaints about him.

 

I'm very sorry to hear that, join the long list of abusive trainer stories. Why is that? Trainers are generally not Florence Nightingale. They may be already pixxed off for a variety of reasons, and a trainer is the only job they can get. I couldn't imagine a more stressful job. Don't be dismayed. In todays society, nobody wants any guff, just slide right in, and sometimes it doesn't work that way. Everybody here starting out had to eat some crow, it wasn't fun, but we got through it, and never looked back. I'm not sure how another company may see you leaving so sudden, they don't know or care what happened, it just looks bad on the old screen here. I think you are screwed for US Xpress however. It's your word against their cousin the trainer.

 

Too many trainers see the student as an easy cash cow rather than have any kind of consideration for their well-being as a human being. The incentive structure really encourages aholes to treat you like an object

 

That's trucking in general, not a specific trainer thing. The industry as a whole sees the driver as a disposable battery. Use you up as fast as they can, toss you in the trash when you're depleted and replace you with a new fresh one.

 

We hear the same story over and over again. "The trainer was mean to me. The trainer hurt my
feelings. The trainer called me rude names, insulted my intelligence, and implied that my parents weren't married. The trainer demanded too much of me...like staying in my own lane of traffic, staying awake for more than four hours at a time, being able to back up in a straight line, taking less than an hour to eat my supper, fueling the truck and getting my hands all greasy, putting on snow chains when I told him I don't like the cold and a whole lot of other things that proved he hated me, didn't communicate very well, and was mentally inferior to me".
Are there bad trainers out there? Of course there are. I believe it.
It's easier for me to believe that there are a lot of easily triggered, self-entitled, non productive whiny babies with totally unrealistic expectations concerning trucking and life itself.
This isn't Cub Scouts or Little League. There are no participation trophies. You either put in the work to learn what you need to learn...with the help of a good trainer...or quit sniveling about how mean the whole world is to you and find a job in a safe space. Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks might be a better match.

 

Curious, why wasn't it that easy?