I want to go back to trucking. I quit in 2012 and let my CDL go ( voluntary surrender). I was OTR 3 years and have trained new drivers. The rest of my time was spent hauling logs. But it’s been 10 years since I drove a truck. I want to get my CDL back and return to trucking. The only problem is I don’t think I can do a month with a trainer again 🤦♂️. If someone would give me the opportunity to prove I’m a experienced driver and not require a full month with a trainer I’d go work for them. I’d be good with a week with someone to evaluate me and give me a good refresher…but not a month. Matter of fact once I’m familiar with things again I’d be a good trainer for you 👍🏻. I love teaching people to do things and I’m good at it! The only thing holding me back is getting CDL back and finding someone who will recognize my prior experience. I simply don’t need 4 weeks with a trainer it would be a waste of their time and mine.
I'm having a couple issues with the tablet navigation. However when I go on duty for the day and bring up the navigation, it'll still show me off duty sometimes. Takes forever for it to register properly sometimes.
Beautiful detail presentation. I was a mentor many years ago. Old school in my day. 18yr vetrian still this day winter driving is challenging and learning.
I think something that would really help mentors is to have monthly conference calls with all of that terminals mentors to discuss new things and answer each other's questions. As mentors we really rarely talk to each other I think it would be a great benefit to bring each trainer new ideas of how to do things
How long does an experience driver have to out with a trainer in the flatbed division? During training is it team driving or dose the trainer sit in the passenger seat during training? The reason I ask is because I tried team driving in the past but couldn't sleep while team member was driving. Felt to tired when it came my time to drive.
Hi Danny! It would depend on how much experience you have. Our recruiters would be able to let you know how much time with a mentor you could expect for your situation. You can reach out to them at 888-539-2037.
I'm with a mentor now and it's terrible no microwave,bed and truck are filthy and to top it off mentor's hygiene is bad..... just drove my 11hrs and was told to use personal conveyance to pick up a trailer total almost 12hrs drive definitely not as advertised
I highly disagree with this idea of this "top gun training" being a mentor for the company it's hard enough to teach a student everything I need to teach them in 200 hours much less anything lower. The more people a student works with the more confusing the program gets for them. My current student we had to get rid of the stuff the training academy taught for the most part and bring in real world training. The academy is designed to pass a test as we all tell our students very little is actual real world practice. The only way to truly simulate anything is that 200 hour span. That gives them the chance to see all different types of scenarios do all different types of backs see how everything operates At a better capacity before we just throw them the keys and set them up for failure.
I want to go back to trucking. I quit in 2012 and let my CDL go ( voluntary surrender). I was OTR 3 years and have trained new drivers. The rest of my time was spent hauling logs. But it’s been 10 years since I drove a truck. I want to get my CDL back and return to trucking. The only problem is I don’t think I can do a month with a trainer again 🤦♂️. If someone would give me the opportunity to prove I’m a experienced driver and not require a full month with a trainer I’d go work for them. I’d be good with a week with someone to evaluate me and give me a good refresher…but not a month. Matter of fact once I’m familiar with things again I’d be a good trainer for you 👍🏻. I love teaching people to do things and I’m good at it! The only thing holding me back is getting CDL back and finding someone who will recognize my prior experience. I simply don’t need 4 weeks with a trainer it would be a waste of their time and mine.
I will say I just became a mentor. And I noticed almost 3 hours extra a day I'm spending with a student on top of my route.
Need to do more with the gps on the tables
We are continuing to work on the tablets and will have more livestreams on them in the future.
I'm having a couple issues with the tablet navigation. However when I go on duty for the day and bring up the navigation, it'll still show me off duty sometimes. Takes forever for it to register properly sometimes.
I think that one way to help out mentors would be a crash course at local terminal that helps figure out what each student needs
Beautiful detail presentation. I was a mentor many years ago. Old school in my day. 18yr vetrian still this day winter driving is challenging and learning.
I think something that would really help mentors is to have monthly conference calls with all of that terminals mentors to discuss new things and answer each other's questions. As mentors we really rarely talk to each other I think it would be a great benefit to bring each trainer new ideas of how to do things
How long does an experience driver have to out with a trainer in the flatbed division? During training is it team driving or dose the trainer sit in the passenger seat during training? The reason I ask is because I tried team driving in the past but couldn't sleep while team member was driving. Felt to tired when it came my time to drive.
Hi Danny! It would depend on how much experience you have. Our recruiters would be able to let you know how much time with a mentor you could expect for your situation. You can reach out to them at 888-539-2037.
I'm with a mentor now and it's terrible no microwave,bed and truck are filthy and to top it off mentor's hygiene is bad..... just drove my 11hrs and was told to use personal conveyance to pick up a trailer total almost 12hrs drive definitely not as advertised
Hello - would you be able to reach out to us with more information? Also, please contact your Driver Leader if you haven't yet.
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I highly disagree with this idea of this "top gun training" being a mentor for the company it's hard enough to teach a student everything I need to teach them in 200 hours much less anything lower. The more people a student works with the more confusing the program gets for them. My current student we had to get rid of the stuff the training academy taught for the most part and bring in real world training. The academy is designed to pass a test as we all tell our students very little is actual real world practice. The only way to truly simulate anything is that 200 hour span. That gives them the chance to see all different types of scenarios do all different types of backs see how everything operates At a better capacity before we just throw them the keys and set them up for failure.