Comments By Eric

A week ago I asked about paid training vs school. This is a different question thanks.

The smaller company is more like mid sized and more based in my area.

Hi,

Just wondering your thoughts on this or if it even matters for a rookie? I can do paid training through a mid size company and training is only three miles away. 4 weeks training and 5 weeks with a trainer. Or would I be better off with a mega carrier training program? Both are similar in starter training pay.

Thank You.

Hi,

Reputation check for Halvor? training and employment.

Thank You!

All of that makes sense, basically stay humble and be nice to everyone. But how exactly do you work the clock and manage time? routes have so many miles, cities have traffic etc etc. I would like to understand better. Thank you so much!

Hi,

Listening to Brett's podcast. Several times he mentions that bitter drivers that make company complaint videos on You Tube are at the bottom of the pond basically and complaining when they themselves are to blame. They are low performers. So as someone who's never driven professionally, I would like to ask what exactly is a high performer??? I assume you can't always get everything delivered on time? you can't help someone cutting you off and clipping them because they are distracted. So I'm really wondering what he means by this??

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I'm realizing that. What does it say about a school that uses a simulator??? they are long established but you have to drive a manual on the road.

Eric, you’ve been given advice on what to do re: training on a manual, by experienced drivers. The problem is, it’s not the advice you want to hear. Here’s some more advice: you should re-think this school you’re considering. Not because it’s private, but because the training on manuals is all simulator. That’s a terribly inadequate way to learn to drive a manual truck. Which you should do, for reasons already mentioned.

PJ,

There's two separate situations running here. My friend is in paid training (on all manuals) the other story is I'm considering going to a school and not paid training. The school only has a manual simulator only and charge 1,500 extra to train on it. I'm trying to decide what to do. Most everyone here says go manual, but I've also heard that the industry is headed to all manual anyways. So what to do???

I know but the school charges 1500.00 more which is fine but it's ALL simulator. All tractors there are auto.

She's ending week two right now pre-testing and finding out soon if she got the axe or not.