I've started with a company and went through 1 week of local training. Now, I'm waiting for my OTR Trainer to get me. It's already been 1 week and I'm getting the same versus from the Recruiting manager that it'll be 2 more days, then more of 2 more days.

What would be the acceptable time frame to wait before I quit and find another company.

Thanks for anyone's insight :sad:

 

Well look at it like this. What happens if you quit, go somewhere else and have to wait for a week or two for a trainer. This is becoming a common issue among the training companies. More trainees than they have trainers.

Anyway, why are you still talking to a recruiter? Why don't you talk to the training manager directly.

 

one thing you are going to learn real quick is PATIENCE!!!!!!!!


there is a lot of "Hurry up and wait" associated with trucking

 

When I was a trainer for Werner, I would often get students that would tell me that they waited up to 4 weeks for a trainer. I would also get students that just got out of orientation the day before they got on my truck. I believe most of the wait time is that the company is trying to put you with someone that has about the same interest as you do and lives somewhere in your neck of the woods. That way you can get home when your trainer gets home instead of sitting in some motel in the middle of nowhere.

 

Hang in there...Wait times can vary. Like Uturn said you will just have to wait again. You stuck it out this long. They will get to you.

I think I waited 2weeks before they paired me with a my first trainer. Spent 4 weeks on his truck. Then I took Personnel time off for 1week. Then back on the waiting list for another trainer. Took just a couple days for the next trainer, but he got deverted by his dispatch and I was immediately assigned another trainer, but he was about 1 day out. Was out the last 4 weeks with him. Both my trainers did a really good job.

Stick it out.

BTW what company are in with???

 

Most training with OTR trainers is based on your geographic location. There might be one available as soon as your done with orientation or you have to go home and wait while the trainer that lives closest to you finishes with other students.

As previously mentioned....
Trucking is a "hurry up and wait" industry.
Get used to it.

 

I (a long time ago) also trained for Werner. I was a non smoking trainer and as that goes a pretty hard to find item for those who requested one. I stopped in Omaha to pick up a studend. Called him, no answer.. talked to the student coordinator, got another one, called him, same thing.. no answer, repeated that four times, finally got one student (who had JUST got out of orientation that afternoon), loaded him up and left, he had been talking to other students who were all in one room watching a movie.... Wonder where the first guy was? :roll:

When they say to be available, be available.

Trainers are pretty much luck of the draw and this is the heavy season for students. Some trainers also like the take vacations in these summer months. Just hang in there, READ THE TRAINING MATERIALS AND THE FMCSR and use the time wisely.

 

Seriously. Im a trainer for star. You're the worst kind of trainee. Quit. Go to another company. You should be even more stressed and demanding by then. You'll quit.

Ive had fantastic trainees and nighmare trainees. Strangely enough the ones who turn into great truckers (far better than i) are the ones who bitch, whine, complain and stress the least.

The hard part of this job ISNT the driving. I can teach a monkey to drive. I cant teach a monkey to handle stress. To consider other drivers, 4wheelers, dispatch, customer needs. I cant teach a person its not his companies fault he screwed up and wrecked or got busted by dot or showed up late and had to sit a day or delivered late and thus had the window on his run home close.
I cant teach a trainee that neither I nor the company Owe him anything. I cant teach a trainee that its just NOT important to impress those idiots watching you back up. I cant teach him that screamingl, ranting, blaming drivers, racial minorities, the gubmint, women etc etc isnt going to help the stunning amounts of stress he puts himself under.

So quit.
Or learn patience. Learn we dont owe you a THING but to teach you.
Learn that trucking isnt a giant money handout. That theories about trucking put forward by the ignorant are irrelevant. That ones ideas of what trucking is really dont matter because you will not know til you become one.. or wash out.

Truck driving is about self control, caution, consideration, emotional maturity, intelligence, stamina and the ability to learn constantly. You either have it or you dont.

PS I dropped my last trainee monday. A POS. He'll last 2 months tops because he's immature. I didnt pick up a new one.. we didnt have any atm. Last two i picked up safety was in a panic to get me to the yard because they needed me to take another one so bad. Luck of the draw. Its life. Ill be d*mned if i know why 30% of newbies dont get that the world doesnt revolve around them and that trucking is HARD, Stressful, Dangerous work.

 

Why shouldnt he quit, especially if the company cant hold up to its end of the deal? A new guy is doing nothing for himself or the company by just sitting and waiting and his skills are not getting any better. Actually, you sound like the worst kind of trainer. If anyone becomes a "washout" its because of what you are /are not showing them.

 

As you've proven in other posts your opinions are not worth considering.

So ya know bubba:
I've never had a trainee who didnt give me glowing evaluations.
Ive never made a trainee drive tired.
I make sure my trainees dont go hungry.
I constantly reassure my trainees.
I consider my Job to be a Teacher.. not a truck driver.
My trainees so far tend to run 500 more miles a week than the average newbie.
My trainees do everything from day one. By week 2 they have all the paperwork, fueling, hooking yada yada down without even realising theyre learning.
The worst trainee ive ever had thanked me as he left the truck and still calls me. Still owes me 40 bucks too. Rather lose it than have to be around him and he'd pay it.
By week 3 every trainee ive ever had has driven through every condition and terrain there is except possibly ice/snow.

Guess what.. i actually care about their opinions. Yours? Not so much.I'll let you get back to revelling in the sight of dead truckers.. Yall have a good day now.