Werner: My experience (in progress)

Discussion in 'Werner' started by DriveItUSA, Feb 13, 2014.

  1. DriveItUSA

    DriveItUSA Light Load Member

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    alright children, enough! :) lol.
     
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  3. "Hang - Man"

    "Hang - Man" Heavy Load Member

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    I picture you scolding me more with a whip! LOL
     
  4. DriveItUSA

    DriveItUSA Light Load Member

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    finally got the trainer to explain the 90 and 45 backs more in depth and to SHOW ME what I'm looking for (where I didn't before). now I have a visual of what I am doing. he showed me where my rear tires on the trailer should be, and should be going and to visualize the "arc" path they are traveling into the spot. so now the lightbulb has gone on, because I just did 2 backs (45 & a 90) and did a helluva lot better than any of my previous other attempts the past month. Now I feel confident I can get the trailer in there without tearing anything up even if it requires getting out and looking and pulling up several times.
     
  5. CrappieJunkie

    CrappieJunkie Wishin' I was fishin'

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    First off thanks for your service to our country. It is much appreciated driveitusa. Glad to hear your trainer explained backing to you. I was out 8 weeks with mine and week 6 we got into backing. Last thing we focused on. My trainer and I had fights too. Comes with the territory I guess. Warner was my second choice but I choose a nonstarter company. Enjoying the reading. I would never thought of taking my trainers points, but I would never had had the guts to do it either.
     
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  6. stevenneill

    stevenneill Medium Load Member

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    Awesome. It is always about the set up. You can do everything perfect, but if the set up is off, you won't make it in...or at least not very easy. When you are done and on your own, you still won't be very good at backing, but every time you do it, you get better. When I first went out with a trainer, especially at night, I just wouldn't back in at a truck stop, I would get set up, then look at it and I'd see those nice shiny new trucks and I would pull out and go find an easier spot, because for me hitting a barrel was nothing, hitting a truck is a whole different story. When I got out on my own I felt more at ease and I've gotten a lot better. Every success builds your confidence, stick with it and you will do fine.
     
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  7. Exit310

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    Best of luck to you!!
     
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  8. The Challenger

    The Challenger Kinghunter

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    Here's my view:

    The trainer is out to make $$$$. The second he started not logging observation hours is the second I would be on the phone to the SDM requesting a new trainer. His behavior towards the OP is evident he is in it for money. If someone threatened me for getting off their truck because lack of miles instead of teaching, I would have said, drop me off next terminal. That shows hes in it for the money.

    Rather than not scan his card, I would have called the SDM and tell her what is happening. Your the student and its your experience. Its your job to learn from his expert tutelage. Say you did act on it and complain about the JIT loads and his miles dropped. I would have let let my SDM before hand know what his repercussions would be and be prepared to find me a new trainer. Just my .02.

    KH
     
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  9. Lowa3468

    Lowa3468 Heavy Load Member

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    Ok lets really clear the air, first off I have praised driveitusa and I have said what I feel needed to be said this is called criticism.

    now who in their right mind would think one would post in a forum and not have someone not only praise but criticize what one posts, really are we all just suppose to say everything out here is cake and ice cream, nothing bad ever happens, really?

    most of us are experienced drivers and I know their are allot more drivers on here that have experience, we can all agree that we can learn from each ones experience no matter how long one has driven for.

    to me when I hear people say they are entitled or feel like they are entitled, that they should have and the key word is have what they want, and if one can't get what one wants they take from others or find other avenues of getting what one wants with no moral regards to others. I would agree there are things we all have to do which is.

    1) we have to be the color we are
    2) we have to breath
    3) we have to pay taxes
    4) we have to die

    everything else we need to work for ok maybe the breathing part for some smokers (lol jjk) had to throw at least a funny in. But nothing is given for free someone had to work for it.

    But when someone says they want to give an honest opinion on ones doings and and posts what she did on page 13 how honest is the person posting really being. All of us have put the blood, sweat, and tears in what we do out here and the whole point is if it was as easy as that then one would be handed a cdl and pointed to a truck and say there you go, but it isn't that why there is training.

    and if one cannot take criticism on a forum with professional drivers who have done it for years how is one going to take it when pulled into a scale house or pulled over by a local Barney fife. I cannot tell you the amount of tickets I have gotten out of while at a scale house by simply taking criticism and a one hour one on one with a dot officer.

    lastly I would like to add and I cannot speak for all drivers but I would have to say for myself and maybe those that are not on here that as a professional driver we have enough idiots running on the highways and to help inform and coach beginner drivers maybe we can weed out allot of the idiots that we have out here and trying to instil morals, integrity, honesty, respect, in what we do maybe the motoring public may start to take notice and the professional truckers won't be just lumped in by the few like it is now.

    i like your thread and your posts it is what it is, and if trying to help make trucking at least a little bit safer for everyone.
     
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  10. DriveItUSA

    DriveItUSA Light Load Member

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    yeah I've come to that conclusion too, but part of me refused to go through the charade of 2 or 3 trainers. It's just more delays and sitting in a hotel room or a terminal, and god knows who or WHAT i get next for a trainer. I might get some former meth addict with rotted/brown teeth, bad breath and a chain smoker who can't verbally compose a grammatically correct sentence or use proper words that actually exist in the dictionary.

    I suppose, I just look at it this way, nothing and no one is perfect, things about him drive me crazy, but it could be a HELL OF A LOT WORSE. he could be defecating in a bucket and just leaving it there to stink and rot, peeing in a coffee cup and letting it spill on the floor, he could be laying naked on top of his sheets whether or not I am coming in and out of the sleeper, he could be stealing my things or going through my stuff, sniffing my panties or something creepy like that.

    So I just chose to suck it up and drive through it. It's only temporary, and this charade is over in 84 more driving hours. We've had 3 days of peace, so he must have figured out his methods are not working, becomes he's stopped pushing my buttons and I've stopped reacting in kind and he actually TAUGHT and DEMONSTRATED and EXPLAINED backing stuff today...and even better, I understood it all! :)

    after this, I get my own truck, some peace and quiet at night, a good nights rest and a truck that doesn't freaking move when I sleep, lol!
     
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  11. Little Eddy

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    I have my orientation soon and I am wondering if you could give me the details of the trainer mentioned above to see if they would be willing to take me on as a student...I know Werner usually assigns the trainer based on location and availability but maybe this once they will make an exception...do you have a name or number where I can reach them?


    Little Eddy
     
    Last edited: Mar 14, 2014
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