First Week at SAGE...

Well, first week at SAGE is over...wife passed tests for her permit...was classroom only, all that preliminary class stuff, don't care for the book much as it seems to use a lot of outdated and misquoted information...good thing we know whats right and know how to look up the correct information...the one thing that really irritates me is that the chapters cover certain things and then the questions at the end have no relevance to trucking or are outdated as well....even the FMCSR test has a date of May 2006...really frustrating....our tests scores are good, but only cause we can weed through the outdated material and figure out what the author was really trying to ask....will be glad when it is over...ah, maybe I was expecting too much...

 

thanks. I forgot I need to think in beginer terms(not that I know all). She has learned alot and I have learned somme new things and refreshed on some things long forgotten...and its been nice to meet some new friends and even help them out...all in all not bad...long, draining week...wife and I had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings tonight, played some holdem and caught a movie...was good to relax...

 

lol...I think they already caught wind of the issues...there was a different attitude about the way the test were handled with the questions that were miswrote or outdated...it will work out in the end, but I will ensure my critique goes to the top in order to better help the next class...in the mean time, I will share the correct info with whichever classmates want to listen...

 

Second week of school, still classroom but better. Have learned how to work around the misquotes and outdated stuff, so for now, I will just let it be. start drive time next week, not too worried about the driving. Got a couple new students this week, another husband wife team, and some solo's. yesterday after class a parts delivery pickup clipped the rear end of a tractors trailer due to not stopping at the stop sign, it was kind of ironic because we just had the accidents awareness class. at least no one was hurt. Filled out application for W/S last night. Will be filling out U.S.Express tonight or tommorrow, and ODFL, a few others. Seems to be a lot of new H/W teams migrating towards W/S, not sure what that is all about.Thats about it for today...you all take care

 

Well, here we go. Second week was pretty much same as first, different classes, better instruction...still some misquotes ans errors in the book and stuff, but we learned to work around that and have a pretty high average on all the classroom material...
So, today was our first day of driving...not to bad, since I have some experience my instructor took me through town, I didn't panic, but missed a few gears(which I didn't think was possible when you are only rolling at 35mph), figured out what I was doing wrong and corrected the problem. Main thing was downshifting, but I think I have a better understanding of that, now. I was a little nervous and couldn't believe how the four wheelers had no regards for the truck. Tommorrow is backing practice. Early morning, so I am off to bed...