Hubby and I want to drive team together. We start school next week.
So far we've found two options for on the job training -
Covenant, which has that political propaganda message on the back of their trucks or
a company that does LTL, so we could train separately but be home every night together.
It feels like we have to go to school, then get a "temp job" to get our otj training done, and then after a couple of months with that company, then go look for our "real job".
My question is for recruiters and company owners really...
If couples are so valuable, why on earth would you not do everything you can to train them together? We aren't going into this to drive separately for two months first, we are doing it to be together! Minimal ojt pay and training as a couple would be so much preferable to being separated for that 6 to 8 weeks.
I get it that it means 3 ppl in a truck. Not many trainers are willing to do that, if only because of potential awkward personal moments. If the trainer for a solo trainee would sit passenger and have the trainee drive, thereby using their on duty hos, they could do it for two trainees, just allow one trainee at a time to drive; switch off. Each trainee could split the 11 hours a day drive time. You can't tell me I wouldn't be learning the same things whether I'm in the sleeper or in the driver seat, because I can hear just fine. Then there are two bunks for sleeping. It would be like a solo training thing, except two ppl would share the training.
I'm just really tense about being apart from my hubby for 6 to 8 weeks, with all the horror stories you hear about trainers. I don't want to have a trainer force me to drive illegal, or be forced out of a truck alone because they don't like me, or whatever. We want to do this together because we spend all our time together now. We've worked together in a bedroom sized office for 15 years. 2 months of being apart would be hard on both of us. He spent a week recently visiting his sister without me, and it was hard on us.