How Many Hours Do You Really Drive??
Topic 4895 | Page 2
I am just thinking about being safe, i am honestly kinda surprised they allow for 11 hours of drive time.
As a rookie, you'll probably start out doing 3-4 hrs a day with your trainer and each day slowly increase those hrs. My first day I did 8, next day was 9 and thrid day was 10.5.. I love to drove and once you get out on the road, its easy and time starts to fly. Sometimes it goes slow, but it happens.
just hope i get a good trainer :D
Well if you ever get a trainer that makes you feel unsafe or you feel isn't giving enough time to practice (as that's basically what your doing is practicing) then a phone call to your trainers DM and safety department will get you to a new trainer. There are trainers that just do it for money and those that do it for the benefit of getting safe drivers out.
I guess it would be a quiet ride back to the terminal.
If you feel unsafe, they will place you in a hotel at whatever location your at. (phoenix, LA, Vegas etccc) and get another trainer to your location to pick you up, they could send you via bus to closet terminal and get you with another trainer.
now if you call and say you don't feel your being trained well enough, then you would have to wait for your current trainer to get you to a terminal.
whatever company you chose will have various terminals through out the country.
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Could you imagine the cost of freight if we could only drive 8 hours which is what office people work and they complain about coming to work everyday. There would be riot! People would be happy about paying 3x what they are paying for stuff right now.
it was 10hrs before I started and just after I started it was changed to 11..
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Could you imagine the cost of freight if we could only drive 8 hours which is what office people work and they complain about coming to work everyday. There would be riot! People would be happy about paying 3x what they are paying for stuff right now.