Which companies do not make you team as part of training?

If you're on a run coast to coast, you're better of letting the trainer sleep while you spend hours driving on the interstate.
Many of those refrigerated loads, you'll pick up a load in the Northeast and run it all the way to the Pacific Northwest or California; lots of open roads all the way there. Then do the same from the west coast all the way back to the east coast.
Anyway, do what makes you comfortable and call those companies I listed and ask how they train.

 

Sounds as if maybe you need to go to one of those 6 month college cdl training schools. That way someone is by your side the entire time you’re driving.

 

No, coming from someone who’s trained people to drive straight trucks, the principle is the same, you teach less and less the better the student gets, but you’re there if things do go south

 

I've ran into a couple of trainers whose arms were in slings. One of them the student rolled the truck a few miles down the road from the terminal.

 

I for one am speechless.

Im going to add one more to my list and be done with this... there is just too close to.. more trolliish rather than actual employment or trade questioning. It's easier to do this for myself than to go off and fill more posts about truths in this trucking industry.

A spot of bobtrucks and box does not a actual long hauler trucker make. Not any time soon when they expect you in Boston Mass 6 days from Yakima WA in the face of a series of storms in the dead of winter. The personalities are just too different between me and OP.

Trucking is a journey. Mr Stranger rolling 600 miles of your life WILL find a way to put you at ease. He has to. Because the night is coming. At some point HE has to have the courage to commend his life into YOUR hands and that of God. We require sleep. Maybe not the best kind until things improve rather rapidly over time.

I have had several trainers who are still relative strangers in my life but are pernamently friends with me and vice versa. They will always be mister from me. Some of these people have driven before I was alive.

Such knowledge is something of a honor to sit and learn from these old ones if you are so blessed. Here I am trying to teach some of that the way I am taught to pass it forward and it's not getting the OP anywhere.

That's quite enough, it's not going to work out.

 

That's almost exactly what my first trainer did. Except he napped in the seat instead of in the sb. That and a whole laundry list of points he did not do. I was with him from Detroit to Ft. Worth and back.
Got a new trainer who actually liked teaching. Not just an l/o who only trained for the extra miles.
My 2nd trainer actually tought me how to drive safely.

 

Oh it happens I’m sure, happened to my brother. Doesn’t mean that’s how most are.

 

That should qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. I mean @Frank Speak will at least just bite someone and that's that. You take the cake though..

 

I get what you are saying. My son did the riding with a trainer with Millis 12 or so years ago. He tuffed it out, but didn't really like it. Think he was out for 6 to 8 weeks. Stayed with Millis for little over a year. So by doing that his training was free. Give it a try, it will be a kinda culture shock. Being a new driver, there is sooo much to learn. Lots of insurance liability now more than ever, with a new driver behind the wheel. Not even taking in the almost assured possibility of equipment damage. Example, broken off trailer doors, curb damage of tires or rims, bent bumpers, cracked hoods, bent mirror brackets etc. Not saying you would..just going by what i have seen in 45 years out here.

 

Y'all are being too rough on this guy. There are very few people in this world I trust enough to sleep while they drive. And don't act like you don't get what he is saying.

Yes OP there are companies that have you team with a trainer, Stevens is one, and yes ..they are ripping you off as a second driver.

I believe most of them work like Schneider. Your trainer is in the jump seat while you are driving. You take your 10 hour break at the same time.

Fyi.. With my flatulence no trainer would want to spend 6 weeks in a truck with me. Good thing I got my cdl when I was younger....of course...I did eat a lot of hard boiled eggs.