Trainer for US Xpress

Probably. It doesn't make much sense to have all team drivers when a lot of the NE is short hops. Teams would be complaining about that all the time.

 

Update: Dropped my last student off at Tunnel Hill then headed home. She passed with flying colors.

Right now I'm laying around recuperating from some dental work. Set to hit the road tomorrow night. They already have a student lined up for me. Yet another female. Apparently I don't get complaints...lol. My last student's friend ended up quitting during training. Her trainer just hopped back in the sleeper and went to sleep. Anytime she asked a question he told her to just figure it out. This is a brand new student, mind you. I hope USX fires those kind of trainers from training.

I will have some numbers for the last student after I get back to the truck.

 

That teaming period is for 8 weeks.

My thoughts on it is two heads are better than one. Maybe two drivers who don't know much together equal close to one driver who knows something.

 

Numbers for last student:

First 3 days- 27 hours, 1501 miles.
Second week (first full week)- 45.25 hours, 2400 miles. That included a 34 hr reset during which I drove.
Third week- 59.25 hours, 3296 miles. Included some teaming.
Last day- 10 hours, 513 miles.

 

Sad to say my current student is not having a very good training experience.

First off, they sent her to Ellenwood too early. Then they sent me in the wrong direction.. They did manage to find me a repower to get me to Atlanta. She had to wait two days for me to get there.

Then we were off to a running start. Delivered that load in Duluth and picked up a pre-plan. Got another pre-plan on top of it. I assured her they keep me running...

So we are headed up to Statesville, NC from Forest Park, Ga. Stopped to fuel in Blacksburg, SC. Leave out of the J and are sitting at the light to get on the entrance ramp when...she starts to take off and BAM!...a very loud jarring noise. She stops and the light turns red. Goes to take off again and it's just making a horrible grinding sound and not moving.

We finally get towed out of there after being threatened several time by a SC State Highway Patrol who apparently wasn't happy he had to get out of his car to direct traffic.

So now we are sitting at what passes for a terminal in Duncan, SC. They only have one tech and there are still 3 trucks ahead of me and no USX truck I can move into. Looks like they won't get to me until Monday morning. It's either a broken axle or the differential is shot.

So far my student only has 5 hours of driving time in. Oh yeah...and the ProTread videos can't be accessed from my Driver Tech for some reason so she can't even use the time to do that.

 

No, you would have gone home and waited forever for a new trainer...LOL

I have to give her credit, she's a trooper. We are still waiting for that thing to get fixed. She has been on the hotel computer knocking out her videos. She hasn't whined one time. She just takes it in stride like a good trucker.