USX Training Issues

Find someone you can sleep with 24/7 because that's what you will be doing.

 

I've never slept with a co-driver. Don't swing that way.

 

There's plenty of opportunities to get away. When they are driving just jump in the sleeper and pull the curtain. If you are sitting in a truck stop or terminal just go to the driver's lounge.

Every person has there little eccentricities. The trick is to not let small things bother you. The thing that breaks it for me is if they can't do the job. Then the very fact they are breathing gets annoying...LOL. But if they could do their job I could put up with just about anything. If something bothers you just kind of casually mention it. Making demands never works out well.

I've been talking to my last co-driver. He's getting tired of mowing lawns and wants to get back into trucking. I've been trying to get him to team up over here. That's the only way I'd team up now, with someone I know. I had 5 co-drivers. 3 of them sucked. You never know what you are getting, even if you do a thorough "interview" beforehand.

 

I live across the mountain from sheepdog. I bet he's a good ol country boy. People from Whitwell talk funny though. You've been warned.

 

LOL..very true Cruiser. However, he grew up in the north. Funny how it's spelled Whitwell, but pronounced Whootwool! lol. Still though, he's a country boy.

 

I know he is probably a good guy, and will be an awesome trainer...But I have to sit back and think it would be hilarious if all this planning and he was the worst trainer of all the ones you've had...I think you will be ok though.

I actually picked my second trainer and glad I did. First one only did the jump seat thing, because he didn't trust a student driving while he slept. When I was at the hotel waiting to go back to the terminal, I met my 2nd trainer in the lobby. We talked a while and hit it off pretty well. He told me he was there to upgrade to a trainer, and told me he had been a trainer years ago, but when he got hurt, he took a couple years off from trucking. So I was his first student, and I already had most of my training done, as I did most of the driving with first trainer, and we got stuck out west. Truck broke down so that was an extra week, and then the weekend I was supposed to come back, they sent us to NJ and didn't get back until Tue @ lunch. So I had to wait another week. Either way, he was way cooler and more laid back than my first trainer. We ran hard, and tried to let me drive as much as possible, but the industry just held me out there longer. We still talk, and I have only called my first trainer once since I went solo. That was because I couldn't get a hold of anyone else and I was going to New Orleans, and he's from there.

Good luck, and hopefully y'all will get along great. It's always good to have seasoned vets you can call on, when you get in a pickle. I've got another friend I made from a racing forum who's been driving for about 11 years, and he was the one that I talked with when I wanted to get started.

 

I am a country boy/man... have been my whole life.. I do not have the southern redneck drawl though... Even in MI you can be a country boy.. I was raised in the country and love that fact... I HATE cold though and since moving to the south I have never thought about moving back north...