What Speed to Exit a Highway for an Off-Ramp

We're u ever a drill Sargent , holy smoke what happened to giving the guy a brake he admitted he didn't feel comfortable period in my eyes I give him credit for being man enough to say he needed help and your smashing him in the head with a hammer, driving in snow or heavy fog ain't for everybody even folks with years of experience, if u don't respect the road she will swallow u up and throw u in a ditch give the guy a break and switch to decafe

 

I would think if you had an accident the trainee and not the trainer would have it in their driving record after all it was the trainee who was driving....(.as long as there wasn't a gun to their head). The company would most likely still put the blame of the accident on the trainer and act accordingly but the mark on drivers record is all on the person behind the wheel....if they don't feel comfortable driving then they pull over somewhere and discuss what it is exactly your nervous about and what type of plan would address that in a way your comfortable with....Right?

 

You don't have to spend much time as a trucker to start to see how short said career can be if you are accident prone. However at some point if your going to be the average OTR driver and spend any time doing it you must overcome this fear of driving in snow. I don't know but when I was just a small kid my father took me out into deep water after showing me how to swim. He then put me in the water and no matter how much I screamed he said swim son. After a few minutes I did and today I am a strong swimmer because of that. In this case I would have asked the student to pull over and got behind the wheel to allow the student to catch a breath. However at some point I am going to insist the student drive. If they still refuse to do so I am going to contact the company to seek their guidance.

 

My trainers did not give me much breaks. I learned from all of them and got hard in some ways. I would require trainees to learn by doing. There aint nothing a trainee can do to a truck that will scare me, they have to learn by doing snow. In fact it's better to do snow than ice for first time out the fluff is friend.

As far as the holy stuff and DI questions, stow it, Im deaf never part of the military.

Trucking requires people to overcome fears. As a trainer I want to find those fears a trainee have and beat it out of them. Why? Because if I did not take the time to love and teach scared trainee then that newbie will freeze up and then get himself or someone killed out there. And it will be my fault for not teaching him or her properly.

Im a big softie at home and away from the truck, easy to get along with. But when my ### is in that cab, it's all professional as best as I can. I was a wild man once, and enough of that to go around in life. There are times in bad days I still hear my trainers sitting there in spirit hollaring profanity and abuse to do this or that all these years later in life. It is what it is.

People like me might pass into ancient history god help you trainees when you are assigned a Otto and told to push this mouse button to deliver it across your computer screen....

 

I must be real old I've never heard the terms trainee and trainer but I think it's OK to have someone answer questions but either it's in your blood or not . if it is you will make a career out of it if not u won't last 5yrs .

 

That type of teaching can go either way it can help or destroy a person for the rest of there life in your case fear of water or going out in a boat I disagree with how u we're forced to deal with a fear but that's just me

 

I have seen water dogs ie black labs thrown in the water as puppies and being afraid of water for the rest of their lives.

 

You have the right to disagree . However I still believe if a trainee has a paralyzing fear of snow it is better to solve this while with the trainer. Like I said I would help the trainee as much as I could but there comes a time when you either fish or cut bait.

 

I didn't need a trainer to tell me I could or couldn't do it was my point . only I know what I'm comfortable doing not the trainer , to be truthful with you I can tell pretty quickly if someone has it or doesn't let's face it I can't throw a fastball at 90 mph but I can handle a big rig in just about any situation it's a skill that not everyone has just like the guy who can throw 90mph but if it's bad weather would look at my truck and say no freaking way.

 

Maybe I should worry more but I don't pay too much attention to what's going on behind me. There's not much I can do about what's going on back there anyway.

My advise would be to focus more on where you are going than where you've already been.