Here is my thought: try to relax and concentrate on your route. Don't let other trucks or cars intimidate you. Take your time, see the road, see the hazzards. And best of all: Have Fun!

Originally Posted by Wooly Rhino

Oh great, now we get to talk about feelings. I was nervous also when I first started out. Then one day at a truck stop we all got together in my sleeper and had a slumber party. We did each others hair and had pillow fights. And then we all cried and cried.

Yeah, the wrong GPS can put you in front of a Pittsburg Stealer Stadium when the game is letting out, and your learning to drive the stupid truck. What a horse #### place to be. Or your dispatcher can give you directions that put you in the baggage area of an airport. I have pictures of both. My first husband has been driving for 45 years, he says the day he thinks he knows it all, is the day he will have to turn in his keys. If you are afraid, you will be careful, and that is the best thing to be, careful. The only way to get over this feeling is to learn what that big truck can and can not do, and what you can and can not do. It will all come with time. You will do fine. We all learned how to, and you can to.