Are There Any Good Trainers Out There??

Turtle wrote:

This is also a 2-way street. You have to be a good student as well. You need to accept the fact that you are in this person's wheelhouse. You need to be respectful, humble, and willing to learn.

You two may have differences, but you need to keep your emotions in check and your eye on the prize. Training is only a short-term hurdle.

Great point Turtle! I agree.

Yeah turtle is right. The trainer is not your friend. You don't have to like each other. You need to learn, and in part you are sort of borrowing his/her truck for practice driving.

As a trainee you should keep a list of things you need to learn and questions when they pop into your head to you to ask later. Part of the problem is that you don't know what you don't know. Lol then when you get out on the road and something pops up, you don't feel stuoid for having to ask dispatch, frustrated for not knowing what to do, or incompetent for never imagining the scenario.

Training no matter how long will never teach you everything. And no matter how good someone does in training when someone else is calling the shots, it doesn't always mean the driver can succeed on their own. Not everything can be blamed on the trainer.

Tim, even the worst trainer is better than what we went thru at USPS. Lol