Western Truck Driving School

OFF DAY

switching from nights to 4 10 hour days is great. I enjoyed sleeping in a bit today. Been catching up on the forum as well.

 

Sunday night and ready for skills and driving tomorrow. It will be my day to do the pre-trip inspection so I am ready to go. Pretty exciting to think by the end of the week I could be a Class A license holder and be ready to drive a truck. Until tomorrow.

 

DAY 10

AWESOME day, started the day as my morning for the pre-trip. From my own count I missed 10 and you can miss 17 I think if you miss 18 you fail. Other student did the 1st drive today to the yard then more skills practice. Parallel still a bit rough but worked on the setup better and got it done 4 times in a row. SETUP is the trick, and watch the 1st bend. We then set up a 45 for the 1st time, that was a piece of cake 3 times right in a row. The guy I am in class with wants to go to May and they have you do a 45 1st day of orientation along with a skills drive. We spend 4 hours practicing all the skills today pretty much have them all down.

Went to lunch once again at the Pilot at 99th Ave and I-10.

Now it was my turn to drive on the road. Very confident did well with my up and down shifting. Corners were good, really good day driving today, no issues, the instructor sat back relaxed just telling me left or right I did the rest myself. AWESOME I think I am ready just a bit more practice on the parallel and I am good but on the skills you can miss 13 I think it is so the other 2 I have down pat so I have 12 points to lose.

I am getting anxious to hit the road things are progressing well. I am happy to almost be done.

Until tomorrow......

 

YES I believe Rich is who Debbie said was one of the better instructors there. Ask him if he knows Debbie from Western Truck School.

 

DAY 11

Other student on pre-trip this morning. He did pretty good. We are both thinking about out testing coming up. My day to drive 1st and let me tell you it was fun. The 7am rush in Phoenix was great. I drove for about an hour then we got to the yard to practice skills. Today we practiced each of them 2x's. We started with the 100 foot straight back piece of cake. Next we did the Offest Back Left again no problem. Next was the Parallel Park, 2 times still some minor issue I think we each did this about 10 times. We then moved on to the 45 alley dock, no problems once again.

Went to lunch again at the Pilot at 99th Ave and I-10. Deserted one maybe we will catch you there tomorrow or Thursday.

After lunch other guy drove about an hour then I jumped in the seat for about an hour then back to the school. We went over some mapping and a few other things.

I am ready to get this testing done and over with.

Until tomorrow......