@rover83 I did the same thing. The biggest issue i have with dealer trainers are that most give the big picture type of training. Its the little in between steps that are needed more than the big ticket things. I did very well at 1000 to 1500 per day in field on there jobs and hotel food separate. I was on the road 3 to 4 days a week. I would do up to ten. I gave them my customers way more than a canned training class. I loved it but I would ask a lot from them before going to train them. Questions like how do you work now what are your procedures and work flows. So I could prepare properly. ?ÿI would ask a lot of questions and truly try to tailer the training specific to there companies procedures. It was for field a half day classroom type setting the in the field. The companies that were most successful were ones that did what i asked and the manager came to field as well. So he or she understood all the little tricks and features that survey controller had and could eliminate a lot of time on office side like check shot reports etc. But you are correct no one wants to pay for training so they use whatever they use before and have a powerful software like tbc not making money. Or Trimble access and its a glorified points staker and collector. I been battling getting my surfaces from tbc into civil3d. It comes in but my break lines and such are not matching the settings exactly correctly. Its a simple thing i am sure. Also getting my auto linework 3d lines like tops toes to work correctly in civil3d from tbc. But I will get it sooner or later. Lol
Rover when are you going to send me a quote of some tbc training. ?ÿI would love to get some ideas from you. ?ÿI am all about learning for sure.?ÿ
Unfortunately it's not really valued by the vast majority of firms/practitioners.
Not until the lack thereof costs them money, no. ???
I think part of the problem is there isn't quite enough or maybe consistent enough demand.?ÿ When I got a quote from the local Trimble dealer for some gear a while back they included the price for 1 full (8 hours I assume) day of training.?ÿ I think it was $1800!?ÿ I was like gawd damn am I in the wrong line of work, or am I paying for a lack of training sales?
Anyway. if all of the firms and practitioners had a training session once or twice a year it would probably be pretty affordable for everyone.
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