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Going to Integrad getting a lot of mixed information from fellow employees.
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<blockquote data-quote="browndingo" data-source="post: 1217842" data-attributes="member: 50642"><p>The appearance and DOK tests are what everyone talks about when they talk about Integrad, but those are minor parts of the week. First, you're expected to arrive being able to recite your five seeing habits and ten-point commentary and knowing how to pre-trip a car. They don't spend any time at all going over and over it in class. We got one demonstration of the pre-trip the way they wanted us to do it, then we were on our own to learn it and demonstrate it. The appearance assessment was the same way - everyone signed the guidelines before arriving and were expected to meet them. We had three days to get it right. Very little class time was spent talking about it. It really is mostly running a DIAD and delivering packages and <em>applying</em> the habits and commentary while driving in city traffic. </p><p></p><p>The emphasis <em>is</em> on developing the skills needed to do the job, and definitely <em>not</em> just on uniforms, appearance and DOK. They pair people up based on the experience they've had - they'll put someone who has worked as an air driver or a helper with a complete newbie, to help him out with the DIAD. They'll put a pre-loader who already knows where to find FL1 with a night sorter who never sees a package car on his shift.</p><p></p><p>The final part of Integrad training <em>is</em> done at the center level. They give you your training packet at the end of the week and you give it to your supervisor to complete while they finish training you. </p><p></p><p>Observing a veteran driver <em>is</em> invaluable, and it's part of the Integrad training. Every student goes on a punch-to-punch observation ride with a veteran driver before going to school (at my center we usually send them out with our 37-year driver who has 35 years Circle of Honor). But being a good driver doesn't necessarily make you a good teacher. After delivering a few hundred of them, a veteran driver can complete a COD stop in his sleep without thinking of the sequence of buttons to push. Explaining it to a newbie is hard, though, because you have to stop and "unlearn" what your thumbs know how to do automatically.</p><p></p><p>The old school method still works - 70% of the time. The Integrad method also works - 90% of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browndingo, post: 1217842, member: 50642"] The appearance and DOK tests are what everyone talks about when they talk about Integrad, but those are minor parts of the week. First, you're expected to arrive being able to recite your five seeing habits and ten-point commentary and knowing how to pre-trip a car. They don't spend any time at all going over and over it in class. We got one demonstration of the pre-trip the way they wanted us to do it, then we were on our own to learn it and demonstrate it. The appearance assessment was the same way - everyone signed the guidelines before arriving and were expected to meet them. We had three days to get it right. Very little class time was spent talking about it. It really is mostly running a DIAD and delivering packages and [I]applying[/I] the habits and commentary while driving in city traffic. The emphasis [I]is[/I] on developing the skills needed to do the job, and definitely [I]not[/I] just on uniforms, appearance and DOK. They pair people up based on the experience they've had - they'll put someone who has worked as an air driver or a helper with a complete newbie, to help him out with the DIAD. They'll put a pre-loader who already knows where to find FL1 with a night sorter who never sees a package car on his shift. The final part of Integrad training [I]is[/I] done at the center level. They give you your training packet at the end of the week and you give it to your supervisor to complete while they finish training you. Observing a veteran driver [I]is[/I] invaluable, and it's part of the Integrad training. Every student goes on a punch-to-punch observation ride with a veteran driver before going to school (at my center we usually send them out with our 37-year driver who has 35 years Circle of Honor). But being a good driver doesn't necessarily make you a good teacher. After delivering a few hundred of them, a veteran driver can complete a COD stop in his sleep without thinking of the sequence of buttons to push. Explaining it to a newbie is hard, though, because you have to stop and "unlearn" what your thumbs know how to do automatically. The old school method still works - 70% of the time. The Integrad method also works - 90% of the time. [/QUOTE]
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