Best co. for trainers?
#11
02-26-2007, 08:01 AM
Originally Posted by One
OK- I have plenty of experience driving Trucks and have teamed and trained before too, so Im trying to find out which company would be best for ME as stated in the title of the thread.
Dryvan, that is! If you find a company GOOD enough to work for, then there training positions cant be that bad!!! I still think what you are asking is which company's pay the most to be a trainer, either way I believe it has been answered in 1 way or another....
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#13
02-26-2007, 02:30 PM
Originally Posted by ssoutlaw
No offense to anyone, but 6 months is not long enough to become a trainer. At 6 months you are still learning yourself! I think that 5 years of constant employment as an OTR driver would be a good starting place!
I think the driving force behind being a trainer for most people is they want extra money for someone else doing the work. I think trainers should want to help drivers learn the correct way and not how much extra money they can make. In my opinion, a trainer should be an older and more seasoned driver that wants to slow down a little and can take the time to teach correctly!! A little more serious now. How many trainers have 5+ years of experience. Why would someone with that much time want the hassle of training when they should already be making pretty good money?
#14
02-27-2007, 01:49 AM
Hmmmmm .. what evidence / research out there that says you need 2 - or 5 years to be a successful trainer?
Just to shake up this thread .. the typical pilot school (I am not talking about your local Fixed Base Operator but a school like ATP, PanAm, or American Eagle) turns out a Flight Instructor in much less than 6 months. These instructors teach the next class to get hours and experience to get a job at your local commuter airline. Are you saying there is much more to trucking than teach somebody to fly an airplane full of passengers? Second point .. experience does not mean you know how to instruct.
#15
03-01-2007, 03:57 AM
That is a good shake up! I am a current private pilot working on the instrument right now. I am 29 and every instructor is younger than me! While most during the three years that I have been flying have moved on to the regional airlines at the ripe ole age of 24! You are so right about experience and the ability to instruct I could not agree more. It is funny how the aviation field works that way too. But, in this case the CFI's are the lowest paid in the industry and they are given the task to train tomorrows airline pilots.
#16
03-01-2007, 04:22 AM
This is one of those "it depends" questions. Do you as a trainer expect to actually TRAIN a driver or are you one of the new breed Driver Trainers where you insist the student wake you if "anything goes wrong". There are VERY few companies anymore who do not use the farcical "team training" scam. The team training is basically a means for the company to get freight moved cheaply, to cover their overall poor performance as a fleet (using these "teams" to cover for lazy and stupid solo drivers who cannot seem to ever deliver on time) and to get their truck back when and if the new driver decides to "jump ship" go back home .
In no other career field will you see an instructor sleep while the student learns by themselves and still call it being trained.
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#17
03-01-2007, 05:04 AM
Originally Posted by Fozzy
This is one of those "it depends" questions. Do you as a trainer expect to actually TRAIN a driver or are you one of the new breed Driver Trainers where you insist the student wake you if "anything goes wrong". There are VERY few companies anymore who do not use the farcical "team training" scam. The team training is basically a means for the company to get freight moved cheaply, to cover their overall poor performance as a fleet (using these "teams" to cover for lazy and stupid solo drivers who cannot seem to ever deliver on time) and to get their truck back when and if the new driver decides to "jump ship" go back home .
In no other career field will you see an instructor sleep while the student learns by themselves and still call it being trained. We dont agree much fozzy, but you called this one right...lol
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#18
03-01-2007, 05:08 AM
Yeah, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while... :wink:
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#20
03-01-2007, 05:56 AM
I agree with the others, 5 years is the bare minimum where I'd trust a trainer. At six months you havn't even backed up enough to teach others, much less driven on the black ice, strong winds in the plains, driven all the grades, messed up and gotten yourself out of those mess ups, etc. 2 years is alright but I'd still be a little uncomfortable. Whenever I get by a terminal I tell all the students the same thing. Ask thier mentor/instructor how much time they have behind a wheel and that I'd stick with someone with 5+ yrs behind the wheel. Mabe I'm undermining my companies mentor program but I'm getting sick and tired of seeing new drivers that can barely drive a truck and have no idea about simple things like scaleing a load or curtosies like turning thier lights off so that other driver backing into a spot isn't blinded by your headlights, or they are to scared to GET OUT AND LOOK, shesh. many other things I can think of but not goinna turn this into a two page post, lol.
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