Advice For The Trainer

The 8-Minute Trick is perfect for either the end of your day, or the very beginning. Let's day circumstance had made it that you are six miles away from your stop for the night, or your next delivery has no on-sight parking but you found some very close by. How do you take advantage of this without running over, or starting, your clock?

First, put yourself on Off-Duty or Sleeper Birth. Then go to Settings, then Speakers. Sound can, technically, be pumped to two different outputs. Just select the one that is currently not selected and hit Apply. Your QC will now reboot. This cycle takes 8 minutes, and you will be kept on whatever Line you put yourself on before starting the reboot. You now have 8 minutes to get where you need to be.

Lol that's awesome but with swift they have the 5mph or 5 minute rule right

They do. But why crawl at 5mph, or try and be lucky enough to drive 5 minutes (technically 4, cause once it hits 5 it's staying on that line) when you can have 8 minutes to drive as fast as you can to where you need to go?

That's pretty clever.... I get it now. So, unless the unit has some kind of battery backup in it, it could lose power (tripped circuit breaker, came unplugged) you could have more than 8 minutes to get where you need to go and 'fix the problem' to restart the QC and get it to come online?

Careful with that, my qc will at times boot up in 30 secs if it detects me moving.

The 8-Minute Trick is perfect for either the end of your day, or the very beginning. Let's day circumstance had made it that you are six miles away from your stop for the night, or your next delivery has no on-sight parking but you found some very close by. How do you take advantage of this without running over, or starting, your clock?

First, put yourself on Off-Duty or Sleeper Birth. Then go to Settings, then Speakers. Sound can, technically, be pumped to two different outputs. Just select the one that is currently not selected and hit Apply. Your QC will now reboot. This cycle takes 8 minutes, and you will be kept on whatever Line you put yourself on before starting the reboot. You now have 8 minutes to get where you need to be.

Dude thanks for sharing that 8 min trick...:) I always find myself needing a few extra minutes

Ken C.

No matter how good you are as a driver training someone is a totally different ball game. My advice to you. Helpful guidance is the key. Build on what he already knows. If you try to "build him from the ground up" but he already has a foundation to build on you may end up screwing him up. With all of my girls I take them to a Pilot off 43 x329. We are leaving DePere so its the best one. Not too big but not to small and i make them set up a back for me. No assistance just observation. Then when they are done I give them pointers on how they can improve and what they fid that works. Also I first do a demo drive and walk them through different things I encounter while im driving. Whatever you do understand that doing it for him or telling him what to do will not help him. Anyone can follow instructions but sometimes having them figure it out works best. You need alot of patience. Never let em see you get mad or frustrated .

Ok, I get the impression that you have this all figured out. Well let me tell it to you straight. My rule of thumb is until you have 5 or more years experience yourself, you cannot possibly have what it takes to be an effective trainer to train someone that has no experience. You yourself still have lots to learn before you can effectively train someone from scratch.

I myself have trained folks once they have gotten their license. To be able to train someone from scratch, you yourself need to have more than just 90 days experience. That is just my personal opinion.

I understand the desire to train your dad, I get that part. But you would be doing him a very big dis-service by taking on his training when you yourself have lots to learn.

Please don't take this wrong, but take this advise from someone that trained folks for a living for almost 20 years while I was active duty military.

Ernie

I have to agree with Ernie here. I'm sure everyone here agrees with him.

We're not saying you're a bad driver or a bad person, instead we are saying that you simply don't know enough to be able to educate someone else. It takes a lot more than 90 days to gain the knowledge you need. If a student asks you a question, you better be able to answer it. In your case, you won't be able to answer most of the questions presented to you.

We've all been rookies, everyone starts somewhere, but considering training when you haven't even scratched the surface isn't a smart move on your part.

And why the rush to unite with your dad? When you team drive you'll be living with each other in a space the size of a walk-in closet.

I think the best thing to do is to let an experienced driver teach him the ropes. You know the basics, but you don't know much else at your experience level. Your father needs to learn from someone who has been there and done that more than once or twice.

And believe me, I too was a trainer. It's not easy at all. Do not underestimate it. Listen, as a trainer you must be able to control your student. I don't mean be a jack ass, but you need to be tough sometimes. You need to be able to do what you show them. You can't teach someone how to alley dock on a tight space if it'll take you 30 minutes to do it. You cant be tough with your dad as your student. It won't be Trainer-Student. It'll be rookie teaching rookie.

You're going to deprive your father of a good training if you decide to do it. Believe me, we're just looking out for you... and those innocent motorists.

Big Question, who Certifies Instructors, what's the Requirements to be an Instructor ? Been thinking about this for a While

Big Question, who Certifies Instructors, what's the Requirements to be an Instructor ? Been thinking about this for a While

There are no laws governing this. The companies themselves decide who qualifies to be a trainer.