Well I'm Screwed.

Let me get this straight 40 Ton, the reason I became an instructor was so I could take in all that extra dough? Are you serious?

Next week I am going to pick up my first student. So basically I am going to the terminal for almost an entire week and lose my entire revenue for that period. Not only that I still have to make my truck payment which is 855 a week. For a grand total of about 2500 dollars in lost wages. After I pick up my new student they are going to pay me 350.00 a week to train my student to get his CDL. Now because he is only driving on a permit I have to be in the passenger seat the entire time he is driving, so how many hours do you think I'll be driving if I have to train a student? 500 maybe 1000 if I'm lucky. So let's say I average 3500 that only covers the lost revenue I suffered the first week.

Now after my student does his required miles 10000 and not before 15 days I have to go back to the terminal and get my student tested out, but before we test we have to make sure the student is ready for the backing portion so another day or two down the drain. After that sign the student up to test and pray they trifecta the first time. 750 dollar bonus to the trainer of that happens. Guess what that almost covers the truck payment that week I'm not running -score!!!! If the student fails to get his hard copy guess who's the big loser in this hum mm.

So your student passes and now you get 6 to 8 weeks of your student being your TNT student. The pay for student is 750 dollars which comes out of my settlement so really it's me who is paying that student to be on my truck not the company! So what's in it for me, well after all the bills are paid I make the revenue off the truck for six to eight weeks if we average 5000 miles a week I will do okay. But far from a windfall!

Listen I'm sure there are trainers doing it for the wrong reasons out there. Understand though I am risking my life there life and my livelyhood training students. I think students like yourself under appreciate hard working trainers that want to help students be successful in this field.

Brian, I personally want to thank you for taking a HUGE risk in becoming a trainer, and thank you for what you do!!

Any update, excore?

Honestly if companies like CR England and SWIFT will not higher you, then you are kinda screwed...

I do hope everything works out for you. Would like to hear an update on if you ever got anything resolved with CSRT.

I really does not make sense to fire someone over a busted mirror. When i was at swift i met a guy that hit a bridge and 2 cars within his first 6 months and still was pulling freight.

I replied to his email and said I would be happy to speak with someone at the company if he could give me the name of someone familiar with the situation. I never heard back from him though.

I posted this on crst lead drivers Facebook page which is ran by our safety department and our safety manager said this is not the whole story seeing we still have students driving for crst that have taken hoods off in truck stops... My 3rd co driver took out a fuel pump while still under contract and kept his job...

Sorry for very late reply, but for the past couple months I been trying to dig myself out a hole I put myself in and not spending it on the net.

@ Brett, I replied to you but you took forever to get back to me so I had to make moves on my own, however I see now you did eventually respond. All I can say is I chose not to pay CRST back and going to have a lawyer look at my contract for free and see if they can advise anything. *Probably not but who knows doesn't hurt to try thats what a bunch of my buddies at CRST are doing that got fired*.

@everyone else. I have found someone on craigslist who hired me and its an automatic truck. All I gotta say is trucking is not that hard as I thought with this automatic. Now I have time to focus on the actual length, height, and width of the truck and not the stick/clutch. Which makes things so much easier. Like driving a big car, kinda. I'm confident in the truck now and have no problems driving. Been driving for a month now OTR mainly in the south and east coast. Idk why so many people who replied had zero faith I could ever learn how to drive. I said very clearly I was in a stressful situation out the bat that no rookie driver should be in. Remove the things that stressed me out and i am doing fine. My trainer I have now we do not get along that well, but at least he isn't as bad as the last one. If anything im showing him a thing or two out on the road because he seems to be a rookie to me as well but claims to be running trucks for 2 years.

Anyways I really don't want to work for this guy much longer as Team Driving is really annoying. I rather be by myself in the truck so pretty soon I'm looking for a company to buy out my contract and put my in an automatic. Maybe if CRST sends my info to a collection agency then I wont have to worry bout the contract. I'm still young so I have time to clear that credit nonsense off my records so I been told. Any answers about that?

As for the poster above me and the rest like him. Believe what I say is the truth or the not, really doesn't make a difference to me. I didn't come on to these forums looking to be called a liar. I thought these forums were to come here to ask for help. Obviously I was mistaken.

@Brian "Listen I'm sure there are trainers doing it for the wrong reasons out there. Understand though I am risking my life there life and my livelyhood training students. I think students like yourself under appreciate hard working trainers that want to help students be successful in this field."

Well I wish I would of had you as a trainer Brian instead of the useless sack I had first time out. He did it specifically for the pay raise and to ride out his last two months with CRST so he could get hired at Roadrunner. He even tried to get my to go to Prime the first day I met him. Set me up for orientation and everything. Anyways thats old news now and am just working for owner ops now in the mean time off craigslist.