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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TurboTrucker, post: 150176, member: 1675&quot;]That&#039;s a nice way to spin things. The reality of the situation, and this is a broad statement and applies to all &quot;training companies&quot;, is that they are not in that circumstance voluntarily...or er..maybe they are but for a different reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trends are what makes things like this occur. One company decided at some point to attempt to fill empty trucks with newbies, because they were not getting applications in like they wanted. It worked for them, and others adopted the same strategy. The current trend for companies to offer lease/purchase agreements, used to bilk drivers out of more of their pay is another example of a trend that may or may not be such a good thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the training companies out there suffer tremendous turnover rates. They all do not draw enough interest from the experienced pool of drivers to keep up with turnover. Most of them offer sub-standard compensation, and/or sub-standard working conditions. By this, that may mean that they require a driver to stay out on the road longer than the driver would care to. It could mean they treat drivers like crap. It could be the freight and/or the customers that the company serves turns drivers off to them. It could be a lot of things.</p><p><br /></p><p>All but two of the &quot;training carriers&quot; suffer horrible safety stats. If they offered the things that would draw the attention of experienced drivers, they would be attempting to shore up empty trucks with newbies, not that newbies don&#039;t deserve a shot, because everyone has to start somewhere. It&#039;s a matter of finding the right place to start.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then they are not being trained correctly. That again would be a fault of the company. They control all the factors that lead up to that inexperienced driver being put behind the wheel before he or she is ready to do it properly. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I already made a valid comparison, and to another flatbed company as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maverick.</p><p><br /></p><p>They hire them right out of school just like TMC does, and their collective ISS-D for all three divisions averages at 30. Their worst score for any one division is 36. Maverick has waiting lists for newbies too. Who ever heard of that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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