Will I ever get another truck driving job?

While I agree with you about taking personal responsibility, I don't think this case would be a valid "setting" for a prime example of that.
One main reason being... Three days. What company in their right mind, with one iota of concern for safety or the driver, would even allow ANY new trainee to be released on his own... in Three Days?? To me, that is ample proof, in itself, of 99% due blame/negligence on the company's part.

The second reason is, as tow614 pointed out, that the sooner that mill pumps this guy out, to be on his own, they collect the $$. Plus, it opens up a new spot for the next newb to jump on that 150 mph "assembly line" that is misnamed "OTR training". Pump out 12 students within 1 month, instead of an appropriate 12 months duration, and the company makes 12x the amount from federal funding. Can we say "greedy motive"??

But I'll give you this much,, and I don't expect any 3 or 6 day trainee to be able to show the necessary assertiveness at that early stage.
Had he been in training on the road for 4-6 weeks or more, then yes, I won't be cutting him the same slack and I'd be requiring him to make full decisions on his limitations (if any) and stand his ground against unsafe conditions, expectations, or equipment.

 

What's wrong with doing 6 weeks of training with Swift?

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Three days out with a trainer,you couldn't have felt comfortable being on your own.So why didn't you tell your company you need more training time?I don't think this will tarnish your chances of finding another trucking job but your company will put you quit while under a load.I suggest you tell the next company what happened and plz go back to training.

 

I think he is speaking of sni. Wasnt there another member saying sni gave her son a truck after 3 days?

 

Might be the same. There was one woman posting on here that went to the job interview with her son & when he has a problem he calls his mother and she calls the company for him.

 

You guys would have hated the early days of the truck driving schools. 7 days and you were on your own.

no matter how much training you have, you're still are going to have anxiety attacks when you start out solo. Personally, I think that OP had more than enough training.
1. He didn't hit anything
2. He didn't get towed
3. No tickets
4. He didn't abandon the truck
5. No brake fire coming out the mountains.
As far as rookies go skill wise, he must be near the top.

But he quit. He shouldn't have quit. That company Wasnt going to hold his hand...my kind of company. Wish you guys would ask for advice BEFORE you quit.

Try again, rookie. This time, be prepared to tough it out.

 

You poor thing . How dare that big mean old trucking company expect you to be able to do such a hard job !!!
They should have known that you would need your hand held for at LEAST six months. Just who do they think they are expecting a person to be able to the job they were hired for without someone there to do it for you .
I think you might need to get a lawyer and sue them for all the mental anguish that you have suffered through !

Now for my real advice MAN UP !!! Nobody out here is going to wipe your nose for you !!! If you want to be coddled then go back to mommy.
This is the real world and out here you earn everything you get !!! If driving a big truck freaks you out so much do us all a favor and walk away now .
If you can handle it then get your big boy pants on and get back in the saddle and do the job you are hired to do !!!

It is no wonder that this industry is in the shape it is in . I will stop now before I hurt anymore feeling than I already have and.......... well some of you get it .........

 

You are joking right a company he can trust?..... I don't trust any company(and I suggest this young person not either).. he needs a good honest trainer.... not a babysitter.

 

That would be like pulling a 17 year old kid out of high school, handing him a gun, calling him a marine then set him in Afghanistan with no training and tell him to man up.. you are right.. it's no wonder trucking is in the shape it is in today.

 

Well now you are comparing apples to oranges !!
I went to boot camp at the tender age of 17 and I also learned to drive a truck !
I can tell you there is a whole helluva lot more to being a marine than there is to being a truck driver !!

I was in boot camp three months but I was never in training at any trucking job more than a couple of days .
It takes a hell of allot more to take aim and shoot a man than it does to back into a dock .
I will also tell you that I heard MAN UP allot in the marines and it was good advice back then and I still believe that it good advice today !!
Trucking would be in allot better shape if more people would learn to MAN UP i promise you that !

I will say this and then I am done .... I was expected to do my job in the corps the same as I was expected to do my job in trucking and I have done them both with honor and pride by doing just one thing and that was MAN UP and do what i was hired to do without whining and expecting anyone to hold my hand !

There is no reason at all to have to train a man 3 months to be a truck driver. Heck you went to school to learn to drive for a month if that didn't learn you ......