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Post by truckertom on Jan 22, 2006 16:48:52 GMT -5
No posts yet in 2006? This used to be a buisy place.
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Post by Charles on Jan 23, 2006 15:59:01 GMT -5
I'm still here. Wondering what happened to the activity also.
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Post by Scott on Jan 24, 2006 7:23:48 GMT -5
I think winter doldrums have set in!
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Post by abacusblack on Jan 26, 2006 20:25:30 GMT -5
First there was a shortage of Drivers, NOW there is a shortage of Posters!!
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Post by Arcflash on Jan 27, 2006 21:49:50 GMT -5
I check in every weekend... Not much activity though.
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Post by truckertom on Feb 1, 2006 20:48:59 GMT -5
I come by about once a week....no comments. I wonder what changed?
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Post by Arcflash on Feb 2, 2006 21:10:43 GMT -5
Dunno... Maybe the lack of new topics?
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Post by truckertom on Feb 5, 2006 9:49:27 GMT -5
Seems the new format may make it harder for folks to find it? (Like I know something about computers). But I remember answering a ton of questions from newbies. Maybe we answered them all??
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Post by truckertom on Mar 5, 2006 9:20:15 GMT -5
Wow, more silence. I am still here, checking in once in awhile. We should do a mass PM campaign and try to roust a few members. Maybe start an argument??
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Post by FATBOY on Mar 18, 2006 12:07:44 GMT -5
I moved and havent had internet service till this morning
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Post by truckertom on Mar 18, 2006 19:20:32 GMT -5
After 10 years of being a driving instrucltor, I have quit. Too many owners doing too many stupid things and sending too many "drivers" into the industry! Our school went from being decent school to being a CDL mill that will send anyone through the process.
The driving school industry is to blame for some of it! It forces good schools into becomming a CDL mill and this is in an effort to survive! I would say that 2 out of 10 students actually become drivers, yet the companies will take any warm body you can produce.
So the training business loses another decent instructor. Leaving the field to wannabe drivers who need their egos stroked. Monday, I have a interview with a trucking company that wants to hire me. I will up my pay, medical insurance, vacation pay, holiday pay. You have to wonder why any driver would become an instructor. It is out of their love of people and the need to help them. If that is not the motive, then it must be extreme ego troubles.
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Post by Fozzy on Mar 18, 2006 20:37:34 GMT -5
After 10 years of being a driving instrucltor, I have quit. Too many owners doing too many stupid things and sending too many "drivers" into the industry! Our school went from being decent school to being a CDL mill that will send anyone through the process.
Aw MAN!!! I'm very sorry to hear this Tom. My Comapny and the school and my dream job as a Trainer, Instructor and CDL Examiner more or less ended the same way. It just stops working when the only people that want to get into driving anymore seems to be people who have no qualms about simply shafting those who train them.
The driving school industry is to blame for some of it! It forces good schools into becomming a CDL mill and this is in an effort to survive! I would say that 2 out of 10 students actually become drivers, yet the companies will take any warm body you can produce.
I think the whole industry is to blame. The industry has based itself totally on lies and fantasy and they bank on basically allowing the unaware to be snookered into the career. I've gotten tired of the whole thing myself. The companies do not pay anything (thanks primarily to the bumper polisher/ cowboy element)
So the training business loses another decent instructor.
It's the same with whole the industry Tom, they are convinced that anyoen can train and if they can put some coin in their pockets while this charade continues, nothing will change.
Leaving the field to wannabe drivers who need their egos stroked.
There are a lot of "title seekers" out there and those in the higher management see them as "A" suckers, and or "B" hard chargers.
Monday, I have a interview with a trucking company that wants to hire me. I will up my pay, medical insurance, vacation pay, holiday pay.
Out of FT. Worth? Hmmm.. got another application? LOL
You have to wonder why any driver would become an instructor. It is out of their love of people and the need to help them. If that is not the motive, then it must be extreme ego troubles.
You hit the nail on the head. I loved the whole aspect of the intructor job. When you can teach people and see the results and the appreciation when they finally understand something that they were just yesterday struggling with, it made it all worthwhile. The absolute joy in people when they receive their CDL and finally get out on their own in their own truck is just something that you really cannot get tired of, The whole scramble for students and the seeming inablity to find people who can actually GET hired anymore gets old fast. As instructors it wastes our time and gives some of these people such a false sense of security.
Best of Luck Tom!
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Post by truckertom on Mar 18, 2006 21:49:42 GMT -5
Thanks, the job I am going for is hauling water into the oilfield. There is alot of this going on down here in Texas and it is for gas wells. We shall see.
Last time I took a company driving test, the tester want me to teach him how to shift a 5x4 trannie. This was in 1978, this time it is an automatic! My how times have changed!
But I LOVE teaching people how to drive, it is a dammed shame it has to end this way.
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Post by Fozzy on Mar 18, 2006 21:51:57 GMT -5
But I LOVE teaching people how to drive, it is a dammed shame it has to end this way.I understand completely!
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Post by truckertom on Mar 19, 2006 13:38:43 GMT -5
This is why the training industry is left with instructors who are looking for the easy way to make a living. Training is anything BUT easy if you do it right. Yet, knowing that your students are going to make more money than you right off the bat doesn't help.
The school I left has a backing yard instructor that can't back, never made it as a driver and steals money and food from our students rooms. And yet, his job is more secure than mine. Next week, he will be in a road truck!
Smart, very smart!
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