USA Truck Training

Hi all well thought i would start a new thread here last one was C1 school. I started my training at usa with orentation on AUG 23rd in Van Buern AR. lasted 4 days went really slow classroom paper work and the small dorm rooms looked like jail cells! The last day meet our training cordanator and he was nice said my trainer was waiting for his truck! On friday the 27 got a phone call from my training cord and said are you awake was at a motel it was 8 am i said you woke me up! LOL he said my trainer was ready and i called him and he picked me up! Was really nervous and he was a young fellow so got in the truck and found out I was his first student! He was new at training but been with USA for almost 2 years! Well we went back to the termanal to get the trailer that was being worked on and left to deliver the load that was on the trailer! He said i could drive boy i was nervous! I was grinding grears trying to remember everything from school! He told me to relax and try floating the gears! Ya OK! I tried to but omg it was funny took me 2 days at trying to float gears before i got it down! well 14 days later of driving backing going to alot of places i have never been or seen he told me that was done with phase 1 training! So my wife came to get me in VA and i am home right now leaving to go to Georgetown KY to meet up with my other trainer for phase 2 driving as team! I am really liking USA and keeping a open mind! Everything i have heard from other drivers they say USA is a great place to work your just not a truck number! I am really liking and loving life on the road been my lifes dream and now i am living the dream! Oh ! more thing to share with all of you! I was comming out of Vidala LA after picking up a load we were going down a 4 lane highway it was about 1am and toped over a hill! My traniner said you see that I said yes OMG what is he doing! There was head lights comming at me in the left hand lane on my side not on the west bound his side, I slowed down and he went right by me! Man was that scary! Well I will keep everyone posted as to Phase 2! Drive safe all

 

Well thanks it was very hard to have to make a change but do not regreet it one bit! Have always been a dream and now it is a life. Good luck at C1 best advice i can give you is keep a open mind stay with positive people who want to learn stay away from know it alls and the last thing is pre-trip pre-trip pre-trip hope to hear how you are doing good luck!

 

Hey all well still sitting in Georgetown Ky meet my phase 2 trainer lastnight talked to him for alittle bit and we are leaving on Tuesday for Portland OR. Excited never been there and get to go to CA too. Phase 2 of the training is team driving i am going to be driving at night into the morning so got to get on that clock! Will keep ya all posted!

 

Good luck you will find that in your first week there maybe others that leave too! Just keep a positibe addtide about things and it will go by very fast. Just remember study pre-trip they gave us a paper with the pre trip on it after we got our premits! The reason I said that about the pre-trip is because you have to do it on your state test! Keep us posted!

 

Thanks Hun miss you can not wait to see you next week!