Trainer vs No Trainer

If your talking about getting solo first, then yes you are ahead of the game.

If your talking about learning about setting up for a back up, time management, what roads are good and what roads to avoid, how to log (both ways). dealing with steep grades in both summer and winter, and the most important, truck driver etiquette then you are behind the game.

Don't feel bad though, your still a noob and it will come to you, just not as fast as if you had a trainer.

 

LOL---I know, I did Donners pass both ways this week, it was a great learning experience I hope to do it again 1 or 2 more times before the snow. It was great to see what to expect before snow. All I can say is common sense in all instances will usually save you. Stay in control don't speed and do your thing not those around you. Beware of them but don't let them change your driving habits.

 

Nonsense.

You only want to hear that which you want to hear.

You don't like some of the responses that you were given and have now decided to start insulting those that don't see it "your" way by calling them uninformed.

So good luck out there. You have been driving for less than a year and you obviously think you know everything there is to know about it.

So be it.

 

Well golly gee super trucker...

Every company that I had got a prehire offer from was only intersted in me having a class A CDL.

Not a single one asked me about a "certificate".

Truck safe out there.

 

I just applied with Watkins Shepard the other day, and they seem like a great company in fact they are the ONLY company that I haven't seen a single complaint about.

But I am on the fence about the whole trainer thing. I mean I am confident in my driving especially with the added bonus of going to school twice lol but I feel that not going out with a trainer your missing out on an opportunity. Either way your gonna drive solo at some point so if you don't go out with a trainer your gonna miss something even if the trainer is a complete idiot theres got to be something that you'll learn from him/her or maybe he'll save you from making a mistake, or at the very least you might just make a Friend.

I don't know if I wanna pass up the opportunity to drive for a great company "Watkins Shepard" or go with another company just for the trainer exsperiance.........I still got a few weeks to decide.




American Trucker

 

I had the same issue they wanted my certificate from school for proof of the 120 hour minimum and some wanted 160.