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The Elephant in the Room - Snoring

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Midlife Trucker, Oct 8, 2019.

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  1. Oct 9, 2019 #41
    keen98

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    I know what the rules are. They are testing you guys out for your CDL just like Richfield, and you SHOULD leave there with your cdl. If you dont and you go with a trainer with your permit then you will test out again in 2 wks or so for your cdl. At that point, like I said, it is totally your trainers decision on if you guys team or not. Your post said Millis dispatches out as solo drivers which is false. They dispatch out the loads and it is us trainers decision on how we run the load. Team or no.
     
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  3. Oct 9, 2019 #42
    keen98

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    Idk what this "solo dispatch" is that you keep referring too but its not a thing. Dispatch is dispatch.
     
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  4. Oct 9, 2019 #43
    TravR1

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    Interesting. I didnt know any company trained that way. Thanks for the link.

    Usually students drive around town, test out get their full CDL, then they hit the road.
     
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  5. Oct 9, 2019 #44
    keen98

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    At Millis student goes with trainer for 15000 miles. If they already have their license then us trainers only need to be on duty with them for 2000 miles then we are allowed to be in sleeper berth duty status. We have a school in Richfield WI that when you are finished with school you are tested on site for CDL by a 3rd party examiner. Cartersville GA school is now doing the same. Our other schools the guys get done with school and go with their trainer. Then its up to the trainer to decide when the student is ready to take his CDL test and we schedule it in his home state. Then dispatch gets us there and hopefully they pass If they do they finish completing their 15000 miles with us. If they fail then they keep working towards their 15000 miles with us and we have to reschedule to take the CDL test again.
     
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  7. Oct 9, 2019 #45
    Midlife Trucker

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    I understand what you think you know about Millis in Cartersville, but you are wrong. You are throwing information out like you have been here or actually, know it. It's wrong. MTI in Cartersville, just got the lot paved to be approved to do testing. At present, no one has left the three week CDL Training with a CDL license. They haven't came back in two weeks for testing.

    Tell me, what are you basing your information on? I'm at the school. I've met the Director of Training. I've met the CDL examiner. I've met trainers. I've met the instructors. Feel free to call the school tomorrow and ask that question.

    "Do they run the student and trainer as a "team" operation or like a solo truck?

    During training, the truck is operated as a solo truck. Students will not drive without a trainer in the passenger seat." - TruckingTruth
     
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  8. Oct 9, 2019 #46
    Midlife Trucker

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    Cartersville has not sent anyone out with a CDL as a trainee, yet. Cartersville is now offering students the opportunity to test. Only two classes have had that opportunity. No one in the class finishing this week want to take the test. They are leaving as CDL Permit holders. Our class has 5 students. We'll see how many take the test and how many pass.
     
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  9. Oct 9, 2019 #47
    Midlife Trucker

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    You seem to know an awful lot about Millis. When did you attend MTI? How long did you work for MTI? Any possibility that you could be wrong? Could solo dispatch mean that they expect the trainee and trainer to work as if the trainee was a solo driver rather than giving them runs where it is expected for one driver to sleep while the other drives?

    This is the YouTube of a trainer, that I've been following. Actually met him today. He's trained 44 students, getting ready to start training his 45th. I asked these questions. He also talks about it in his videos.

    Pebbles Bootlegger truck driver trainer
     
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  10. Oct 9, 2019 #48
    keen98

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    Ok? So within a couple wks with your trainer you will test for it and if you pass then it's up to the trainer if you team or not. Its not 5-6 wks later after school that you test for it with a trainer. Your post made it sound like there was no teaming at Millis while in trainers truck which is 100% false
     
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  11. Oct 9, 2019 #49
    keen98

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    Im a trainer at Millis RIGHT NOW! Ive trained 10+ guys I know wtf I'm talking about.
     
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  12. Oct 9, 2019 #50
    Midlife Trucker

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    You seem dead set to prove me wrong on this. What if I told you that Perry, a driver trainer was training a driver trainee for 11 weeks? Would that surprise you? Couldn't get an appointment to DDS to test. His trainee tested today at Cartersville.

     
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