The Trucking Experts

[WILDBILL]

Trucking Companies are screaming about a driver shortage but have you noticed that when you apply for a job with a carrier these days ya gotta bring a Philidelphia Lawyer with you to the dang interview just to understand what the recruiter Trainer is talkin about!!
I went with a young newbie who is just startin out, to a trucking job interview the other day and with my 32 years of safe long haul over the road experience I could'nt figure out for the life of me what the heck the recruiter Trainer was sayin!!
He was using them big words like orientation procedure follow up accompanied by an attitude developemental program along with a three month preventive and focused accute intensive educational and verbal appraisal internment of employment and prolongation examination and evaluation......Dam it!
Does anyone know what he just said??cause I sure did'nt!!
Heck!! I grabbed that newbie by the scruff of the neck and hauled his skinny little fanny outta that place and we were gone faster than a fart in the wind.
After long thought on that scary experience,I finally came to the conclusion that our trucking industry has been infitrated by a bunch of these so called
new world order know it alls who have the answer to everything without ever having left the warmth and safety of a dang school classroom.
Now this feller here using those big educated words could'nt have been more than about twenty five years old and I am dam sure that he ain't never seen the inside of a big eighteen wheeler! ( Draw yer own conclusions )
Folks!! ther ain't no mystery to drivin a big rig,most of us old guys were thrown behind the wheel by our Grand Pappies or our daddies and told to swim or drown and there were'nt no fancy manuals and big talkin slick so called experts around at that time,and if ya want to know, we all did pretty dam good in this industry over all these years without any help from the know it alls!!
Why don't we all just git back to basics and forget all about the big fancy engineered words and fancy new world order Trucker developement programs,cause it ain't going to change anything except for creating a whole lot of confusion and I'll tell you that today we need to hire good men and women who are going to drive truck not engineer them,we'll leave that to the Einstiens of the world!!

WILDBILL

[cottoncandy65]

Well maybe that trainer needs to learn to talk to each individual driver that come in their according to their education level. The words he used weren't that big and hard to understand. You need to remember not all truck drivers are uneducated. If he would have talked to your friend as if he was a child you would have been screeming mad about that also. Times change with everything in life some for the better some not for the best.

I am also a driver as well as a recruiter. I haven't been driving as long as you have just 13 years but I have a pretty good idea how things go out here. Take into consideration that a lot of people need to be taught the basic to customers service etc. There are many factors that need to be considered. So before you try to send us back to the dark ages of trucking, please try to look at the over all pictures.