Werner Trainer Craps Himself

Smartest thing you posted so far ...

Now maybe you can stop parroting my previous comments, and enlighten us with your vast experience.

 

Good point, Stump. Plenty of fodder there for a thread of it's own. Title it something like The Hygienically Challenged Trainee. That subject should be every bit as humorous to read as a skanky trainer.

Back in the day, when I was a driver trainer, I had one trainee show up for a two weeks on the road excursion with only the clothes he was wearing. Absolutely nothing else.
Needless to say, I had a few questions to ask before he even set foot inside the Big truck. I began the questions with, -----
Do you plan on wearing the same clothes for two weeks?
He answered, --- No. A guy I went to school with got hired weeks ago and he said truck stops have laundry rooms, so I'll just wash clothes when I need to.
Ok,........... your friend is correct.
But I'm curious, ........ what do you plan on wearing while the only clothes you brought are being washed and dried?
No answer. Just that deer in the headlights look.

I asked how far he lives from where we were, and he said about 20 or 30 miles. Taking into consideration that as a general rule when I first encounter a new trainee I arrange for our departure to be 8 to 12 hours earlier than I normally would, --- just in case unforeseen problems arise. If there are no problems, no problem. That means it'll be a more leisurely stroll with enough time to practice exiting highways and entering truck stops for some backing skills polishing.
So I suggested that he either head for home to fetch the things he'd be needing for the next two weeks, or head for the nearest WallyWorld to purchase necessities like a change or two of clothes, a jacket would be handy, so would a shaver, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towels, ---- I let him use my pen to write a list on a piece of scrap paper so he'd be sure to remember what he should already know.

He took the list and headed out the gate. Where he went, I have no idea. He never returned. After waiting for over two hours, during which time I cleaned the interior of the Big truck, I gave dispatch a call to see if they'd heard from him.
They hadn't. But they said they'd call him to see what was goin' on.
Dispatch couldn't get an answer to their phone calls either. After waiting for six hours, dispatch told me to go ahead and leave without the trainee.

I wasn't pressed for time yet, and could have waited a few more hours, ............ but I heard myself asking self, 'why wait'? Considering that when I'm stood up after investing hours waiting, my mood is affected negatively, so it's probably a good thing he didn't return. Y'all never get a second chance to make a first impression. And my first impression of him was that he was a failure lookin' for a place to do that.
He found it.

And I found a week of runnin' solo for a change while another trainee was was scheduled to hit the road. The next trainee was a female, as were about 75% of my trainees. That brought a sigh of relief from me because I'd never had that problem with any of the female trainees assigned to me. If anything, they tended to pack too much, and needed to leave a few items behind.

As a trainer, my Big truck is my home away from home, and as such there are house rules to abide by. Not impossible or even particularly hard to follow. However, failure to do so could result in an automatic failure, even if their driving was acceptable. Any inability to follow simple rules is a red flag indicating the probability of future problems, in my opinion. And that's what I was hired to form, an opinion based on observations of trainee behavior. During the phone conversations a day or two before departure, I suggested that the trainee think of me like Santa.
I know when you are sleeping
I know when you're awake
I know if you've been bad or good
So be good ---- or we won't leave the state. :smt034:smt035

 

Dude I saw first hand the hell that you rookies have to go through with that company! I never had to go through any of that when I got my cdl I went to a small produce company that ran teams talked to the owner and he hooked me up with a good clean driver who ran like hell but I learned more in the 11 months he and I drove together than I ever expected, I stayed with them but went solo when they bought more trucks and loved it! My son seen the money i was making and he chose to become a driver, the fuel prices drove the company into selling out and I didn't want my son at Werner with a goon like what you have described so I went to them so I could train my son. I stuck it out for him but lord I hated that company! When I quit and he was with me after 6 months they begged us to stay on! They were like you were always on time you ran good and we gave you miles what more do you want! I said to make real money! those paperless logs are BS and the trucks were so banged up from the trainer not knowing how to drive them selves! I remember pulling into a truck stop and getting a complement cuz i parked my truck right but wanted to die cuz the bumper was tore up and it came that way! I ended up telling them to either fix it or we were gone they did get us a semi decent truck then. BUT STAY AWAY FROM THOSE COMPANIES they are the only one who will make money not you!

 

All I can say is wow and that was some funny stuff to think I was trying hard to get prehired by werner.

 

But you would be entertained and have some funny stories for to tell us.

 

Dear my pathetic little man (Aftershock)
As you have done in the past, You are doing it again. "What" you say!
Changing the topic at hand.
This Gentleman Left us all a nice story to read. You went and turned it into something about yourself. Most readers have jumped past your remarks and still commented on how good of a story it is! But, I decided to let you know that your ignorance is Bliss! I just figured you thought everybody likes reading your comments. Well, I thought I could let you in on the reality of it all. Now I see that that is'nt going to happen. Your ignorance strane is far to deep within your genes.
I like how you described yourself to a "T".
And I definetly agree with you on that note. You are a Dweeb! Lol
I was'nt expecting to here you admitt it so rapidly though.
So I guess you dont need to Challenge me wether or not you are a Dweeb, cause I definetly agree!

P.S. You using words with more letters than branches on your family tree does'nt make you sound any smarter. Just makes you appear as if you are trying a bit too hard to appear intelligent!

 

Good point, LadyTrucker2Go.
Who knows?
The next great comedian might make it big by doin' a stand-up routine based on experiences with scuzzy driver trainers. For sure it'd be original material.

By the way, do y'all know the difference betwixt a fairytale
and a trucker story?
Well, ........ a fairytale starts out Once Upon A Time, ............
A trucker story starts out, You ain't gonna believe this s hit, .........

Do y'all know how to recognize a professional Big truck truck driver?
Easy.
A professional doesn't spatter his boots/shoes when he
checks his tires.

Think about it.

 

My Werner story isn't that bad but a bit different.

I went to Indianapolis, IN for orientation and took the Greyhound. Got to Indy and called like I was instructed to and was told that the shuttle had just left 5 minutes earlier and the next wouldn't be around for an hour. But they knew I was coming in on that bus and I found out in an hour that there were 5 others who had just arrived. Ok I got this sinking feeling in my gut that I had made a wrong discussion about my first driving job out of school. Well fine I got the the hotel and now it was about 10pm so I got ready for bed. My roommate was nice enough, I think he didn't speak English so I couldn't tell but he would smile. I got in to bed and picked up the phone to call home and tell the misses I was fine and I'd call her after the first day of orientation. I couldn't make an out going call, I have a toll free phone at home and I couldn't call it. I finally called the front desk and was told that Werner turned off all out going calls and I would only be able to call room to room. I didn't kow anyone yet why would I want to call room to room. Well she figured out that something was wrong so she called me. I picked up and her her say that she had called 3 times before she got to me. I told Jan that I think I had made a wrong decision but Jan convinced me that it was just the hotel and Monday would be better. Well it wasn't, I got to orentaion and the guys with the bad teeth were giving orientation and on top of it they were saying that we need to dress and act like a professional. I listening to this from guys who were wearing tattered blue jeans, and sleeveless shirts that looked like they should be in the rag pile. I got back to the hotel and called home and Jan convinced me that it was only 2 days of orientation and I'd be in a truck with a trainer. I listened but wanted to go home. My trainer was a very quite guy, I would ask a question and he'd respond with one word answers. We deadheaded to Mexico, MO from Indy with one stop for fuel and I grabbed a burger. We left MO and headed to PA with close to a full tank of fuel so we didn't need to stop. We made our drop and sat for 24 hours before we got a load and now I've not eaten for 36 hours before we head to Newark, NJ. We say in the lot here we had dropped our load and nowhere to get food, bathroom, or drinks. (water or soda) We picked up our new load and took it to north to Trenton. Great some place I knew but the problem was that we were 5 miles from any food and I was hungry so I walked to get food. We then got a load to Louisville and on the way my trainer went to sleep. No big deal I was comfortable driving with out supervision so I kept driving. It was about 6 hours in and I needed to take a break for food and a pee. Just before I was about to stop the trainer got up and I said I was stopping for a break. His response was, "are you refusing to drive?" No I was hungry and I'm a new driver I was used to driving that much. I wanted to take an hour but was given 15 minutes. Now I'm thinking that this guy is teaching me to kill myself. We got to Louisville and were sent to Chicago deadhead. 8 hours away, great. When I knew I was going to my home city I started checking to see if everything I owned was in my bag. We got to Chicago hit a stop light and I got out of the truck at 3:30 am. I had it I wasn't going to drive with this guy any longer. At about 8 am I called my fleet manager and told him I got off the truck because the trainer was teaching me to be a dangerous driver. I was told that that was a terminating offense, ok I was going to have to look for a new job, but when I responded that I would have to look for a new job my fleet manager said that we could work it out. I said we just did I was terminated.

Thanks not as bad as your story but it's just one more reason why no one should work for Werner unless they've got such a bad work history that no one else will take them.

 

Sounds like somewhat of a bad experience. The trainer sounded like a jakepie. But if you can't handle some of those experience's, you did the right thing, sounds like you could not make out on the road anyways. Not trying to put you down or stand up for the trainer,(he sounded like a joke) but most guys that give up that quick, won't make past a year.