My training is going very slowly.

Posted by LeotheLiberator@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 15 comments

So my training is going very slowly. unnecessarily and frustratingly slow. Like what's even the point of being here slow.

For context, I've been with this company for 2+ weeks now and have about 30 driving hours. First week, the truck needed to be fixed and trainer said i could go home for a couple days. Apparently that wasn't right but that was 3-4 days lost.

Then, trainer had a family emergency so I went home again for a weekend.

These two events combined with being stuck sitting at shippers, trainer driving for some reason, and waiting for info from dispatch is why I've driven less than a normal 9-5 job in two weeks. I say this as I sit waiting for a pickup time that's in 6 hours but 45 minutes away.

I genuinely just want to get this over with. I'm good at driving and could have been so much farther if anything went according to how I'd schedule it but I'm on everyone else's time.

Should I leave and find another job? Can I bring it up to management and ask to shorten the training time because of how much has just been wasted? What would you do?