Just Finished Training School
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Duck
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I wish you'd shown up here and asked questions about it BEFORE going with Crusty. We'd have advised you not to.
Electric Chicken
Well-Known Member
Hey he might beat the odds. Never know.I wish you'd shown up here and asked questions about it BEFORE going with Crusty. We'd have advised you not to.
Exactly. Don’t worry about anybody advising you to different companies. Get your experience and fulfill your commitment.
As for living with someone else in the truck, just respect each other’s space.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
I can imagine what it might be like to suddenly move into a space smaller than jail cell with a stranger.
Don't forget this trainer is inviting you into their tiny cramped living quarters. Like it was said above, just be respectful of each other
I have run team and I was a Trainer. Both of you will be happier when this is all over and you go your separate ways.
In the meantime, ya just have get along and learn as much as you can.
SuperCuriousMan
Member
My concern exactly, cuz that's what I'm looking at doing (though not CRST, which has a pretty long OTR training regimen, right?). It seems a relatively short "sentence" locked up together would be a lot better overall. In my case, good chance of teaming with an already experienced-at-it buddy from school who's on the road with a co-driver now, but he hates the sometime. That's what I liked about Schneider's program, a short OTR stint...but that plan hit a dead end before I got there, so am looking at other companies.
Main thing to me seems maybe minor on the surface, but talking to my buddy about his experience, etc., if you really think about it, it makes a big diff--Whether it's the mentor's "own" truck, especially if it's a manual trans and I'd be grinding "his" gears...and his patience. You're literally a forced guest in HIS space, HIS home-away-from-home, more than sharing it co-equally, when there's already a stressful hierarchical dynamic. On the other hand, if it's a company auto-trans truck, that seems to be a relatively low-stress equalizer...to an extent.
Then the most important factor, like in a marriage, comes down to basic personality compatibility, basically being considerate, emotionally mature and mellow (easygoing) enough, good communicators who aren't hard to get along with... That's the kinda guy I mostly am and seek, cuz it takes two to get along; takes only one to start and grow a conflict.
Main thing to me seems maybe minor on the surface, but talking to my buddy about his experience, etc., if you really think about it, it makes a big diff--Whether it's the mentor's "own" truck, especially if it's a manual trans and I'd be grinding "his" gears...and his patience. You're literally a forced guest in HIS space, HIS home-away-from-home, more than sharing it co-equally, when there's already a stressful hierarchical dynamic. On the other hand, if it's a company auto-trans truck, that seems to be a relatively low-stress equalizer...to an extent.
Then the most important factor, like in a marriage, comes down to basic personality compatibility, basically being considerate, emotionally mature and mellow (easygoing) enough, good communicators who aren't hard to get along with... That's the kinda guy I mostly am and seek, cuz it takes two to get along; takes only one to start and grow a conflict.
Sinister
pari animositate
You might find after living in a tiny space that you're not such good friends with your buddy.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
But if thats the better way to go, then do it.
Its already hard to find manual trucks on used lots. Autos are standard practice now, and they never even took a poll. I think at some point manuals are going to be reserved for very special operations, and the rest of us will be stuck wondering why this damn thing is shifting so much.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
But if thats the better way to go, then do it.
Its already hard to find manual trucks on used lots. Autos are standard practice now, and they never even took a poll. I think at some point manuals are going to be reserved for very special operations, and the rest of us will be stuck wondering why this damn thing is shifting so much.
I don't know if they will be in any operation much longer. You are going to have less and less people learning with them, and they already have 18 speed autoshifts. Won't be long until the folks looking into the specialized jobs will have never shifted a manual in their entire career
Uncle Birchy
Well-Known Member
Stick it out for now and once you get that solid year or two of verifiable expirience and no issues or wrecks you can call almost any carrier or trucking company get a job next week.
Yeah it's gonna suck for awhile although think ahead to the future.
Don't let these guys knock ya for Crst either.
Watch and listen to your driver mentor and absorb absolutely everything.
Sometimes it's going to be touch and go.
Another thing is just have faith in yourself instead of being scared half to death imagine yourself like you have been doing this a decade or so.
Truth be told most of us got out start that way weather it be Crst, Schneider, Swift, or Werner.
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mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
Doubt I’ll ever go back to a manual.....
Humble pie
What we have is a failure to communicate.
When are you getting your sex change?
mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
Humble pie
What we have is a failure to communicate.
I got mine done in the Congo. Figured if I was gonna have to pay for it I want a big black one installed.
Humble pie
What we have is a failure to communicate.
Only on the outside. I’ve always been a hairy trucker on the inside.So you were born a girl?
Duck
Sarcastic remark goes here
We sure are good at train wrecking threads around here.
Humble pie
What we have is a failure to communicate.
If you’re going the other way I wouldn’t go to the Congo. You’ll get a better trade in value in one of the Asian countries. Just be careful because they are known to install biscuits sideways
Humble pie
What we have is a failure to communicate.
That’s probably why we all ended up on the island of misfit toysWe sure are good at train wrecking threads around here.
