Re: What's Your Company's Training Period?

[rreschran]

I'm discussing another high-dollar case where a newbie tow operator (with three months experiences) claims he wasn't trained properly resulting in his moderate injuries. He claims he had one day office orientation and two days riding with another driver, "showing me the ropes." This seems to be the way many tow companies are going to avoid having to spend dollars for formal training and to get them into a truck faster. Two-weeks is generally the known period of training, the longer the better especially when training's full documented. In today's litigeous society, you can be sure drivers will throw your company's training process under the proverbial bus should they be injured on the job. For the life of me, I don't understand how it can be cheaper to not train than spend the dollars to provide training, and that includes sending the employee to a recognized training program? Because training's the first place that's attacked in any lawsuit, I'll ask, what's your training program consist of?     R.