Con-way Freight's Unique Driver Training Schools Surpass 500 Graduates - Yahoo! Finance
Con-way sure knows how to spin a story.
Con-way sure knows how to spin a story.
Con-way Freight's Unique Driver Training Schools Surpass 500 Graduates - Yahoo! Finance
Con-way sure knows how to spin a story.
Lemme start by stating I mean no offense from the following.
As a graduate of a driving school myself, I often ponder why our company even needs a driving school. We should have qualified, experienced, knowledgeable, and dedicated drivers standing in line for a good paying, home every day freight job. But somehow we don't. I don't think the train em the way we want em applies. Nothing replaces an experienced and safe applicant.
Not at our barn. We got newbies crashing way more than the oldies. And I know when the economy was hot, our turnover rate was sky high. As far as our school, I resigned as a trainer due to poor performing students still passing the class. Maybe different where you are at.
now how can "poor performing" students pass the class? It takes an 80% on written test to pass, a score of 270 to get pass mid-terms and there is always the state testing at the end. How does a poor performing student pass their state exam? Everything is documented in the student file from day one to day sixty. Sounds more like poor performing instructors. Just where is the school you resigned from?
I wonder how many of the grads still work here. One of them not long ago one of them put it in the middle on I-75 in Akron. I was told that he told the cop that he fell asleep. I guess they are not giving intelligence testing before they get hired.
I wonder how many of the grads still work here. One of them not long ago one of them put it in the middle on I-75 in Akron. I was told that he told the cop that he fell asleep. I guess they are not giving intelligence testing before they get hired.
now how can "poor performing" students pass the class? It takes an 80% on written test to pass, a score of 270 to get pass mid-terms and there is always the state testing at the end. How does a poor performing student pass their state exam? Everything is documented in the student file from day one to day sixty. Sounds more like poor performing instructors. Just where is the school you resigned from?
thats pretty hard to do for the fact that I75 does not go thru Akron!!I wonder how many of the grads still work here. One of them not long ago one of them put it in the middle on I-75 in Akron. I was told that he told the cop that he fell asleep. I guess they are not giving intelligence testing before they get hired.
These "instructors" show them how to get by the testing and show the "basics". As long as you have been driving, you know this......If you drive. The real world vs. the "schooling" is not as cookie cutter as you want it to sound. One student I had was not ready for the road on his own. Some take longer than others to learn, but not in Con-ways eyes. I had to call up north on this particular student......turns out he still drives today but not for Con-way. He stilll contacts me for advise and turns out he is pretty safe. Dont take it that I am patting myself on the back, point is the training program is not what you claim in your post. Seasoned drivers may have "habits" and Con-way does not like a Seasoned driver to tell them about the real world. Drivers are easily replaced with a student promised a dream job. The new and improved con-way..
I disagree. If you were part of the city ride-along then you had a student for three days. Those three days are very specific in regards to teaching, mentoring, and coaching. At the end of those three days the student is not ready to be on their own... that is what the ride-along is for. His challenges should have been communicated to the instructor so continual improve could occur for the student. Remember it's a 12 week course, and while there may be a few terminals with schools that need some more "Train the Trainer" sessions, overall the school is everything I posted. The way you finish your post tells me you are the last driver I would pair a student with.
I disagree. If you were part of the city ride-along then you had a student for three days. Those three days are very specific in regards to teaching, mentoring, and coaching. At the end of those three days the student is not ready to be on their own... that is what the ride-along is for. His challenges should have been communicated to the instructor so continual improve could occur for the student. Remember it's a 12 week course, and while there may be a few terminals with schools that need some more "Train the Trainer" sessions, overall the school is everything I posted. The way you finish your post tells me you are the last driver I would pair a student with.