Titan Transfer School Day 9
Aug 7 2018
Another wonderful day in the books. Really enjoying Titan Transfer. For the longest time after my incident in 2015 I never thought A) I would drive again B) I would have found such a great company to work for, training is going great, still missing the family and Pup but I get to Face Time them daily so that helps with the separation. Really Missing Dad, several times I have picked up the phone to call him and tell him about the awesome people I work with and great things I am learning about, so I go to his contact in my cell phone, and there is picture is staring back at me, and it hits me...NO ONE is there anymore, I can't call and talk to him, and be excited to hear his questions and voice about what I'm doing, no more. I know he is proud of me and I hope I am making him and the rest of my family proud of me. It isn't an easy career field, because if it where easy we wouldn't have 51,000 trucks needing drivers. But I MUST do this to better our family situation and give them the life they so deserve, being able to go on vacations and such.
Today was another great day, we started our new Schedules (check previous blogs) showed up at 8am and jumped right into pre-trip, I would give my self a B+ on it, got through MOST of the outside with a few prompts, and most of the inside/airbrakes/ with few small prompts so just keep plugging away at it until it sticks. I may have to sit down and just memorize the sheets. I get to partner up with an AWESOME group who are going to drive team, we bounce ideas of each other, if a certain move doesn't work, hey how did you do this, or hey you might wanna try it this way, see if that works. It's really great to be with a company who unlike my last employer actually gives a crap about their employees. Now I'm not saying my other fellow employees at these places didn't care saying the EMPLOYER didn't.
We started rotation through driving today in pairs, and I went 2nd in my team, the first driver was a little nervous and got flustered but THIS IS PRACTICE, this is why we do this, THEY will get it, and have NEVER Driven a vehicle THIS large before, really proud of them for not giving up. It will come easy. Heck this isn't my first foray into this driving thing and I even struggled a couple times, we AREN'T perfect, but that's why we practice, I am 110% confident they will get it and be driving in NO TIME flat looking back and saying man remember when I struggled with that, it's so simple now. I hope a few years down the road we can all look back on this class remember the good times we had, and how hard it all seemed, but now seems so simple.
When that new employee comes in for day one, don't give them grief, because they aren't going as fast as you are or aren't as good at their job as you are....Remember you were new once too, we don't all get born into greatness, we ALL had to learn, the best thing to do while you are moving up the later of success is to turn around and extend your hand to those below you and bring them up with you as well. Encourage them, help them, answer any questions they have, and one thing I love doing is Thanking them...Hey Thanks for coming in today, thanks for ALL the heard word you did, sure you made a few mistakes today, but it only becomes a mistake if we fail to learn from it, so don't look at them as "mistakes or screwups" look at them as you creating several learning opportunities, recognize them, understand them and then move on. LEARN/TEACH/LOVE/Respect
If a company takes care of it's employees they will never have to worry about their customers.
Thank you for traveling with me
Safe Travels, Love Each other
firemedic2816
Another wonderful day in the books. Really enjoying Titan Transfer. For the longest time after my incident in 2015 I never thought A) I would drive again B) I would have found such a great company to work for, training is going great, still missing the family and Pup but I get to Face Time them daily so that helps with the separation. Really Missing Dad, several times I have picked up the phone to call him and tell him about the awesome people I work with and great things I am learning about, so I go to his contact in my cell phone, and there is picture is staring back at me, and it hits me...NO ONE is there anymore, I can't call and talk to him, and be excited to hear his questions and voice about what I'm doing, no more. I know he is proud of me and I hope I am making him and the rest of my family proud of me. It isn't an easy career field, because if it where easy we wouldn't have 51,000 trucks needing drivers. But I MUST do this to better our family situation and give them the life they so deserve, being able to go on vacations and such.
Today was another great day, we started our new Schedules (check previous blogs) showed up at 8am and jumped right into pre-trip, I would give my self a B+ on it, got through MOST of the outside with a few prompts, and most of the inside/airbrakes/ with few small prompts so just keep plugging away at it until it sticks. I may have to sit down and just memorize the sheets. I get to partner up with an AWESOME group who are going to drive team, we bounce ideas of each other, if a certain move doesn't work, hey how did you do this, or hey you might wanna try it this way, see if that works. It's really great to be with a company who unlike my last employer actually gives a crap about their employees. Now I'm not saying my other fellow employees at these places didn't care saying the EMPLOYER didn't.
We started rotation through driving today in pairs, and I went 2nd in my team, the first driver was a little nervous and got flustered but THIS IS PRACTICE, this is why we do this, THEY will get it, and have NEVER Driven a vehicle THIS large before, really proud of them for not giving up. It will come easy. Heck this isn't my first foray into this driving thing and I even struggled a couple times, we AREN'T perfect, but that's why we practice, I am 110% confident they will get it and be driving in NO TIME flat looking back and saying man remember when I struggled with that, it's so simple now. I hope a few years down the road we can all look back on this class remember the good times we had, and how hard it all seemed, but now seems so simple.
When that new employee comes in for day one, don't give them grief, because they aren't going as fast as you are or aren't as good at their job as you are....Remember you were new once too, we don't all get born into greatness, we ALL had to learn, the best thing to do while you are moving up the later of success is to turn around and extend your hand to those below you and bring them up with you as well. Encourage them, help them, answer any questions they have, and one thing I love doing is Thanking them...Hey Thanks for coming in today, thanks for ALL the heard word you did, sure you made a few mistakes today, but it only becomes a mistake if we fail to learn from it, so don't look at them as "mistakes or screwups" look at them as you creating several learning opportunities, recognize them, understand them and then move on. LEARN/TEACH/LOVE/Respect
If a company takes care of it's employees they will never have to worry about their customers.
Thank you for traveling with me
Safe Travels, Love Each other
firemedic2816
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