Is It Necessary To Have A Female Trainer?

I doubt the trainer would be to cool about a video camera. And were I you, I wouldn't ruffle feathers by asking...that is a real sore subject with alot of drivers...

Probably. I don't know that I would like it if I were a trainer to be honest. So, this subject comes up in the trucking world? I heard some companies have cameras in the cabs - is this why?

Just talked with my recruiter at Central and she said that with trainers they give you what is available. If there is a female available it will be her, but if not than it will be a male. I don't care, after three weeks I will need to get paid! There training pay is not great, but better than nothing. 375 first week, then 425, and then 450. When I go solo (or team) and get my truck I can live anywhere I like, and I can bring the bobtail home with me here in KY if I so choose.

Best of luck to ya Kathy! Central Refrigerated is a great company and they can lay some miles on you, your gonna do real well. Just keep coming back here if you need a little help along the way.

When I was in training with Roehl, the recruiter was very specific in explaining to me that if I wanted a female trainer, that they have them, but that there can be a wait for one, and if I was willing that they would put me with the first available, male or female. It ended up that I did get a female, but my female friend that was in my class got a male trainer.

The interesting thing was that before we left the training, we had a "gender sensitivity" training, and all female trainees were assigned a "safety" dispatcher , regardless of what gender trainer we would be getting. We were required to call our safety dispatcher at least once a day, in a private place away from our trainer and answer two questions: 1) How were we being treated? and 2) Did we have any problems or concerns with any aspect of our training or trainer? If we didn't call in then they were required to call us to "check up" on us.

I had absolutely no problems what so ever, and neither did my friend who had been assigned a male trainer.

I hope this helps,

Julia

Thanks for the info Julia, I will be training with Central, and they told me which ever trainer was available is what I would get, so I don't care either way, I kinda hope tha Central has a policy like Roehl, but I haven't heard of them doing that. I am sure it will be fine, I will be professional and I think they will too.