Starting with Schneider on Monday

Hey thanks everyone for the advice, it really does mean a lot to me.

Thanks haha

 

So nearing the end of this week, it has all pretty much been in the classroom as you may expect. Now if you ask me, that is the dumbest thing ever. We learned trip planning, ETA/NAT's, and the Qualcomm workflow and navigation. Had I learned all of this before time with the TE it would have saved me so much stress and probably would have made my TE more money, which he told us we were making more with our $80 day rather than our series of short hauls and two hours per day of showing us how to use the Qualcomm.

We had our Qualcomm test today, which was also pretty ridiculous. You have two hour to update an ETA, NAT, accept a preassigned load and go through all the tasks of said load. I finished it in ten minutes, but alas, 7 people out of our class of 17 now completely failed to do it in 2 hours. How the hell are they going to drive a truck? I don't know, and I don't know what happens to them now.

Tomorrow is the main "hands on" test day. A test of your pretrip, couple/uncouple, backing, and road driving. That's it for the morning, then in the afternoon is a short class on how to precisely edit logs. Other wised called a "hard" edit. Finally, on Friday is "graduation." Now the way this goes down for me personally is that me and four other guys that are from the west coast get on a conference call with our DBL and cuss and discuss our arrangements of getting home and to our trucks and so forth. All but one of us west coasties flew in, so there are talks that they may fly us home... Now my recruiter said, and I know that may mean nothing now, that I would get a rental car to drive home, and that makes the most sense. Aaaand I kinda packed for that, meaning that if I fly my bags are going to be overweight from all the paperwork, boots, etc that I accumulated on this nice little vacation and I am sure as hell no paying a $100 baggage fee... So it looks like that if I am going to be flying I am out my whole supply of jeans so I my bags are cheap... So I hope that flying home is just a rumor.

 

I love the location we are in, walking distance to everything but the oc. I lucked out and had no roommate the 1st week and have one this week. He is an ok guy as we just do our own thing and rarely talk, and I'm ok with that. The only thing I don't like about him is that he goes to bed at 830pm sharp.

 

Yup haha already counting on it.

 

Welp, I get my truck tomorrow and I am hoping to get out of Colorado before the storm. So I may do one more update once I have been out for a while, but after that I think this the end of me for this thread, unless anyone has any questions for me.