Training newbies.

While working as driver's, they can obtain college degree's online, from accredited colleges, or are you so ignorant you don't know this?

When trucking is "in the blood", a driver that obtains such a teaching degree be it online, or if he works local, goes to night college, he would jump at the chance to stay "in the business". Or again, are you that ignorant you don't know this?

If presented to the "Financial Aid Administrators", (the govenering body that APPROVES financial aid to school's) see's the college degree's, they readily accept that as proof of a school that can teach the program to standards the Financial Aid (Gov'ment sponsored) sets forth.

Or are you ignorant to that as well.

Why do you think so many of our colleges have professors/teachers that are college degree'd?

Why do you think some "technical schools" require at the very minimum, a college degree, just to teach auto mechanics?

I hardly think that a college degree in teaching is a waste of time or money, to those that want to teach, and are willing to obtain one.

Would you want YOUR child to be taught by a non-college degree teacher?

I think not, unless again, you are ignorant.

 

Settle down guys. The point I was trying to make is this: IF you want to have a school that stands out and can charge $10K + tuition, then that school NEEDS to be able to turn out students that companies can rely on to be WORTH that $1200 / week salary right out of the gate.

This is exactly what the 'training companies' such as CRE, Prime, FFE, etc. are doing. They only do it differently. Instead of charging that $10K - $20K tuition up front, they are letting the driver trainee work it off over the course of a year or so by forfeiting some of their pay back to the company over time. Where I think they are failing is that they charge an unreasonable fee if the trainee decides that trucking is not for them, and they leave before the year is up. $4K to pay back is fine, $8-10K is a bit unreasonable, IMO.

 

Right now, there is a school, "up here" in New England THAT CHARGES nearly the $10,000 I SPEAK OF, and it ain't no "good school" either. Anyone "up here" in New England, "would know" of this school I speak of.

I refrain from mentioning it's name. (but the FIRST two words in that school's name??? IS, "NEW ENGLAND". AND I can also say that, this was my neighbor's school, and the placement director (joke title) GAVE HIM a list of places to look up on the school's computer!! For $10,000, and being told to "look at our computer with this list we give you", constitutes a good placement service??? A GOOD SCHOOL WORTHY of charging $10,000???

 

I would teach drivers more of the business side of transportation, ie working with customers, brokers, finances, etc. It seems many schools only focus on the driving itself and I think that's a flaw.

 

I would go for more stringent requirements on the part of the states when issuing CDLs. There are many states where a new driver is required to log a certain number of hours behind the wheel before getting a license. Let's extend that to big rigs as well. Then we'd eliminate the schools where a student is in a truck with 3 other students and they might drive 1 hour a day for 3 weeks.

 

Why? Seems to me, that would be for a "business" school to be teaching. IE, separate degree, like there is now, you know, "business management"?

 

I assume this is how you started in the trucking industry

 

If I owned a company,I would have an open dorr policy AND STAND BY MY WORD.Many drivers are in the right when they're angry at their dispatcher and/or company.I would listen to both sides not just one side and blame the driver.If I owned a starter company the trainers would have a yr exp before training.Trainers now only need a few months otr and to me thats like the blind leading the blind.The trainers must have patience.I would pay more.A productive driver is a happy driver.Many have service failures,why do u spose that is?I would give the drivers miles.Companies are in business for one purpose,MONEY.So then why are so many drivers sitting and why so many have short runs?Gizmo thinks alot like companies pertaining to newbies.Newbies are'nt always at fault out here and trainers require 10 yrs exp???????????????????? LOL.The 10 veterans won't be at a starter company training,LOL.They're on to bigger and better things.

 

After teaching High School for a while I am now following a long time desire to go into trucking with a company that trains its own drivers.

It was scary enough seeing my students behind the wheel of a 4 wheel. Therefore, I have never thought about my former students out of todays educational system being behind the wheel of a big rig.

Ya'll do have some interesting points; are new drivers really ready to be let loose out on the public highways? Yes, that includes myself also.

 

You have pretty poor reading comprehension skills. Nowhere did I say newbies desrved more money.