DO NOT wait for them to call you. You had the issues you need to call them and explain your situation. If you are waiting for them to call they probably never will.

 

Cluggy619,

I understand what you are saying about getting out of the truck at a safe place to report him/her. But throwing the keys might send a Psycho :twisted: driver over the edge. And might also look bad on your part right?.


Of course people are very unpredictable and you have to do what you have to do! Thanks for the warning though.


James

 

Just tell them that you don't know what he's talking about when he tell about you throwing the keys..I mean you are calling him on his ability as a trainer.

 

My trainers were never that bad. Although they were really stupid. My 1st trainer I had to "fire" due to his reckless driving. The last one was just a real moron. I should have posted everything that happened on this site. Everyone would have gotten a good laugh. lol

Oh yea. My first trainer got fired for a reckless driving citation. The second got fired for punching out a limo driver. The trucking company owns the limo company lol. He also bobtailed from tennessee to florida. They charged that retard with $1.50/mile for out of route expenses. I could go on, and on, and on. :roll:

 

Find another company and let that one go! good riddance to bad rubbish! Ask before you commit if the trainer is supposed to sit in the jump seat or do you drive like a team. BOL
BTW, I'm real happy at Crete And the trainer I had couldn't have been nicer. He had a nice vacation when I was with him :lol:

 

The owner of the company called me today and asked what I wanted to do.

I told him it was up to him if he wanted me to drive for him or not and if he did he needed to get another driver to go to the main company he has his trucks leased to and be trained to be a trainer. I told him I would never get in a truck with someone who was just there for the miles. I told him what my expectations of a trainer were and if he couldn't find me a trainer with my expectations I wasn't interested in driving for him.

He said he would see what he could do.

So now I wait and see what he does.

 

Scott I am a former trainer for a larger fleet and I never would have done what he did to you. He is the one that needs to be FIRED not you. Any OTR trucker that runs 99MPH period needs to be canned ASAP let alone be a trainer. I got the trainees that were the ones that no one else could handle or get along with and to be honest 80% flunked however 20 miles out I was not sleeping behind them either. Also him doing your logs for you that is ILLEGAL that is your logbook not his you are the one that will be getting the fine if you had been caught not him. I would have taklen it from him and said next time I catch you even opening this I will be calling the MAIN COMPANY and saying you are FALSIFING A TRAINEES LOGBOOK that would get their safety department off their butt. Still let the compay the boss is leased to know what the trainer he has does they may say he can no longer train his own drivers.

 

You may be waiting a l-o-n-g time.

If you find yourself in a similar situation with another company owner down the road, ask for a time commitment -- in other words, ask the owner how much time will he need to "see what he could do." His answer will speak volumes on how serious he is in addressing what needs to be addressed.

If I were you, I'd start/continue looking....

 

It's a little different situation that most of you have probably been in.

The owner of the trucks and I went to school together 30 years ago and I use to date his sister 30 years ago. So we have known eachother for a long time. I went to school with the dispatchers there too.

After we graduated he went into his Dad's trucking business (his Dad is deceased now) and I went on to be a Shipping Mgr for 20 years until they closed the plant. I couldn't find anything in the shipping field close to this little town so I went to school for my CDL. The first place I headed to find a job was at my old friends business and we got reaquinted after all the years.

I believe he will treat me right if he can.

 

Yeah...that indeed changes things a bit!

Hope it works out well for you!