Trainer vs No Trainer

I'm certainly not bashing W/S. I disagree with the idea that after going through ANY CDL course - be it a vo-tech school, associates program at a community college or a driver mill - that one is ready to deal with what awaits them on the road. It gets you to the point you can pass a practical driving skills test. The idea of someone with a few months' of experience being a trainer, or CDL school plus 10-days of orientation make a competant commercial driver is ludicrous. I think the sooner that driver training is regulated (gad! I can't believe I'm saying this...) the better off we'll all be. This isn't 40-years ago when roads were much less congested, and we do live in a society that permits too many lawyers to breathe.

 

You posted about W/S haters. I posted my opinion that I hadn't seen any evidence of such. The OP may have mentioned where he worked, but the opening post was about trainer vs. no trainer. Not the company he opted to work for. At least that is the way I took it.

Please tell me what post number(s) that you think are an indication of W/S haters. I may have missed it.

I didn't say a word about your reading skills.

 

Eh, yeah, but....There was a lot more to training than driving when i learned to drive a smooth bore dry van too....

Did this guys super duper driving school teach him what to do when he gets to a customer? Did they teach him what to do when you get a speeding ticket (my trainer at crst got a speeding ticket on the last day of training! ROFL!)? Did they teach him strategies for on-time deliveries, like showing up to customers that you know are going to be closed, and parking in front of all their docks so they have to wake you up when they come in in the morning?

 

LOL....

Crude but effective eh?

 

Pull up to the receiver an hour before the appointment circus starts...

- Everyone who showed early is sleeping... ZZZZ!!!
- Park IN FRONT of the first guy in line...

Crude n' effective!!!

Nah - I wouldn't do that!

 

I have done it a few times. When I have an appointment of first thing after they come in in the morning, and i get there the night before, theres no other trucks there, and i want to make sure they wake me up. If they want to use those docks they will. The customers i have done this to have never had an issue with this, infact they usually tell me, hey, gimme the bills and put it in dock XX....

Obviously that's for small customers.

Hahahahahahahahaha. That is horrible. Just soo wrong.

 

I dunno... the mushroom place in MO kicked the Canuck with a load of 'shrooms that was three days late out of the dock door, and told me to back in since I was there on time the morning I was supposed to be there. He'd arrived the night before and tried your approach...

Mr. Canuck throws a fit, but moves his truck. I back in, and the dock foreman looks at me and says, "See if that a&&h@l& gets unloaded before 2PM!"

 

Nice. See, i'd never throw a fit. I was always early if i pulled that one, also.

 

No, I haven't been around this forum long. I never said that I WAS around long, or that is was one of the most asinine comment found on the forum. Just one of the most asinine I've read.

And yes, there is a particular reason for my disagreement. There are a host of great trainers out there. To think that someone is a "noob" for talking about getting a great trainer shows a sense of ignorance to the situation as a whole. I've said I had a great trainer, and I'm not a "noob". No where near a veteran yet, but not a noob, for sure. At least, that's how I see it. You'll see it differently. We'll both think we're right, and the other is wrong. Life will continue on.

 

Great opinion, but I think your going to be hard pressed to back it up with facts. Otherwise insurance companies would prefer new driver and they do not. The more experiment you have the cheeper the insurance.