Trainee help

After 60 posts this is worth quoting and shows what the problem is.

You are not with a trainer, he is a mentor for lack of a better word.

His job is to ensure you learn how to operate the truck under the company policies and that's about it. ALL of this trainer BS is just that, BS.

YOUR training was done to get your CDL so because it was, run the truck as you feel comfortable with.

DO NOT FORGET FOR A SECOND YOU ARE in charge of that truck, not him, HE is in charge of it ONLY when you are not in the driver's seat no matter what anyone says. He can't tell you how to drive it, it isn't his place and learn that quickly. If he don't like it, get someone else who gets it.

The problem is you've got to learn through experience and if that means you learning the ways of the road on you own , then so be it but as many may not get, the trainer has no authority over you in the eyes of the law - even the regs spell that out. He may in the company but then the company is one of thousands and they can't take a cdl away or prevent you from using it somewhere else.

As harsh as this sounds, tell him you are going to do what you think you have to do in order to drive the truck safely, there is no company policy that overrides the FMCSA regulations or your responsibilities to operate in a safe manner AS YOU SEE FIT.

 

Lol. Wish I had a Jane yesterday running Cumberland pass. 50k no jake didn't get brakes smoking either.

 

excellent post / advice, @Ridgeline . . . you really hit the nail on the head there, man.

OP, that's the best post on this thread. Heed from knowledge.

 

all yah gotta do now see if it works

 

I dont see a problem with a trainer teaching you to do mountains without jake, really it's good experience. It can be done without Jake's.

 

^^^ yes it CAN be done, but takes practice and pretty much "getting the feel" of how everything melds and works together (or not) in a truck. Is it a manual? Auto? Maybe I missed that if it was posted. Stabbing and smoking the brakes was bad advice, imho.

 

Yep constant pressure, start slow. If hill is 45 I run 15 or 20 everybody behind me can go around assining it is a long or curvy hill. Once those brakes get hot you can't stop.

 

Being a newbie myself I would ask the company if this is part of the training. Because last I checked one of the questions for passing the test and getting your cdl is the require ent that jake brakes are the standard method for slowing your truck with the breaks as secondary.

 

yeah said company may as well hand the keys over to the newb and forget this part all together.