Trainer training methods

Also if you are training it is suppose to be marked as on-duty in your log books! That is the law and it is there for your safety. So if a company looks the other way, what else do they want you to ignore?

 

I hear what you're saying but good luck finding a company that doesn't use students for team loads.Try to get a trainer with yrs exp not the ones with 6 months.

 

Trainer-trainee teams are nothing more than a cheap and effective way for companies to run teams while burning out rookies as fast as possible. The whole point is to maintain rookie turnover to keep costs low.

 

Companies also give trainer/trainee "teams" runs that single drivers would quit over.

 

I have a little experience in the 'art' of instruction, both as a military classroom instructor, and in providing a great deal of on-the-job training.

The key to successfully imparting knowledge to any student is to adapt your methodology to the student. Whereas you don't wish to be micromanaged, there are other trainees who welcome that approach. There is no 'one size fits all' technique that will work for everyone.

One final word: I have met a good many male drivers who believe that they are the embodiment of Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty and A.J. Foyt all rolled into a better looking package. These guys can rip the fender off of another truck while parking in any empty parking lot and see that as a glitch, not a statement on their ability. Far too many of these people are attracted to the trucking industry, IMO. I'd rather be awake in the jump seat when one of these nitwits decides that he can "make it" and puts my life on the line. I may not be able to prevent him from killing me with his oversized ego, but I want the opportunity to try to beat him to death before I die.

 

Well said.....and who says truckers aren't intelligent.

 

On the money. He may have better luck with flatbed companies (though, that opens up a different can of worms) in that they don't generally haul a lot of 'team' freight.

 

Conway truckload does not run students and finishers as a team. I know. I am a finisher with them. Great company to start with. Students get paid .26 per mile and upon upgrade to driver immediately make .30 per mile. My students clear about 600 per week.

 

Conway T/L only gives solo dispatch during training and the trainer is to be in the jump seat at all times. I'm amazed at people who just get thier CDL and think they can drive well enough to let someone go to sleep in the bunk. Perhaps they've never seen the Donner Pass video of a student who was comfortable with his trainer slepping in the back, right before they went over the edge and both died.

 

Should make it into law that students ARE NOT TO BE USED FOR TEAM LOADS.Thats good Conway only does solo runs during the training.I imagine a lot of these students think they're good enough to drive solo because the trainer leads them to believe that.These companies use students for team loads and gives the trainers the pay per mile the student drives.The students should receive that plus the chump change the companies pay them.