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Post by Fozzy on May 28, 2004 20:42:53 GMT -5
It is always funny when you tell a veteran of the road that he is going to hve to quit popping it out of gear two blocks from the stop if he wants to be an instructor. ;D Oh yeah! I failed to mention the coasting out of gear habit that experienced drivers have. We took on instructors and we explaiend that this was not their personal training school to teach the way they thought "things out to be". We had to give them a list of things to work on and then they would go out and practice until they could get the habits back under control. For some, it was easy, for others it was impossible and they seemed to cop an attitude and leave. WE didn't allow them access to the students until they passed our (My Boss and mine) driving test. I took one down to a DPS (DMV) and had him take a driving test with a state examiner......he failed! Then he quit.Sorry to hear that, But it was probably better for you and him in the long run. Trucking instruction is one of those things that you have to love to do to be successful at it. I and you both know that as soon as the students hit the first road trainer..we become "idiots" any way! LOL ;D
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Post by truckertom on May 29, 2004 18:37:31 GMT -5
"I and you both know that as soon as the students hit the first road trainer..we become "idiots" any way!"
I used to train back in the early 80's as a company trainer, but I had them from start to finish. It was a little different back then, but most of the trainers our students have gone to are pretty impressed with us. We did have a class that had about 4 of our students go to the same company. I heared that about 5 students from another school failed and got sent home after orientation...now that is bad. This company has balckballed a few schools over it.
But what about when they start blackballing thier own school? That I would like to see!
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Post by Fozzy on May 31, 2004 15:45:53 GMT -5
I was speaking more in general. I cannot count the number of my students who came back after (or during)their training to inform me of my "shortcomings" and the "new ways" that the trainers are teaching them. . It's usually about the logging rules and then spirals down to some safety issues. Most of my folks realized what the trainer was doing (and were just giving me a dose of crap) but some actually believed that the road trainers were giving them the "real" info because they were "real" drivers and I was "just" an Instructor. When we were a company only school the trainers were fighting ove our students because we did put out a VERY decent "apprentice" trucker. We trained them on the companies paperwork and they were "up to speed" on most of the company procedures. We did however have a couple of trainers who thought a little too highly of themsleves were VERY vocal about what we weren't teaching the students....One's main gripe was that were didn't teach the students how to open and shut trailer doors.
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Post by truckertom on Jun 2, 2004 7:42:04 GMT -5
"One's main gripe was that were didn't teach the students how to open and shut trailer doors."
I have worked myself into a position where I get to take ego driven instructors with an attitude and tell them to shut up.
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Post by truckertom on Jan 2, 2005 11:33:28 GMT -5
Here we are starting a new year in trucking. I started mine by going to S. Carolina and picking up two trucks. We now have a sister company called "Circle M" and we are training some of our own drivers now. After having many outside drivers take the company driving test and fail, we have found it easier to train our own.
We had to get rid of two of our instructors, one was the classroom and one was a road. We are now on a salary and are looking into adding a company or two along with a few financers.
We shall see how 2005 goes. The instructors do not keep thier trucks clean, and I am now the lead instructor. I think I am going to request they clean it up a little. Why should a new student have to sit on a burrito from 3 classes ago?
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Post by Fozzy on Jan 2, 2005 18:34:27 GMT -5
Oh Yeah! We had people come to us wanting to be instructors who after getting the basic instructions of what they WILL now teach and what they will NOT do or teach. simply failed to return the next day. It's VERY easy to THINK that you can instruct. It's a whole "nother" thing to actually be ABLE to instruct! I had to re-learn things to instruct and its a bit of a humbling experience to find out exactly how much I had forgotten and how many things that I'd just became comfortable enough to not do anymore. I believed totally in what we taught and why we taught the way we did. Becoming an instructor improved me as a driver and as a person...Well I think so anyway! ;D
Fozzy
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Post by truckertom on Jan 13, 2005 19:36:52 GMT -5
Well, I may be giving up on the driving school thing soon anyway, I have just had to sacrifice too much to keep the school I am at going. It is just becomming too much trouble to continue.
I turned down so many other offers a year and a half ago and I guess I should have taken them up on thier offers.....Loyality just doesn't pay.
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