ROEHL Orientation & Training, My Daily Experience

We couldn't drive today because of weather conditions, so it was just some slide shows and a couple videos. Got done at noon.
Meals: Had some fruit and a bagle for breakfast, Gyro and water for lunch. Dinner is yet to come, but I think I'll have the club sandwich and water.
Tomorrow is paperwork day, will have a conference call or two and find out who my OTR trainer will be and when I'm leaving. Will officially be an employee with Roehl.

 

Well, I'm glad they've made some improvements then. I'm not sure how maintenance is generally done, but you could always pull a bobtail in there at least. I asked the instructor today about the amount of trucks that are out there, he said a month ago, there was almost twice as many, so maybe things have changed some since you were last out there? I'm excited about actually becoming an employee tomorrow with Roehl. I realize though that I've only got a very small percentage of what it is to be a commercial truck driver. Anyway, safe travels to all of you!

 

Sorry, I haven't had any kind of opportunity to update things since I headed out with my trainer for my Phase 2 (OTR training).

Day 8: Last day of phase 1, just paperwork, covering some policies and guidelines and waiting on word for training assignments for phase 2. We went from 7am to about 2pm, then headed to the hotel. I got a call just a little after I arrived (2:12pm) telling me to be ready for my phase 2 trainer to pick me up around 5:30pm. Another student got a rental car and had to drive to Atlanta to meet her phase 2 trainer there.
Once he picked me up, he drove for about 2 hours and explained some things while he was driving as well as getting acquainted with each other.

 

Day 9: First real day of phase 2 training. We started with me driving us out of the truck stop where we stayed over night. I drove for 330 miles and he took us the other 255 or so. We went from Anna, TX to Alton, IL. Dropped a trailer inbetween and picked up a live load.

Day 10: Shuffled around IL a bit going from Alton to Gary...drove 260 miles.

 

Day 11: From IL to OH and then to IN. By this time my shifting has improved a lot, but still need to watch my mirrors a little more =P
Drove 388 miles.

Day 12: From IN to drop a load in IL, then picked up another and heaed to MI. Only drove 166 today =(

 

Day 13: My trainer is headed for home time, so we linked up with another trainer (an o/o) at the terminal in Gary, IN. Drove from MI to OH, then to IN. Drove 342 miles today.

Day 14: A long day, even though it only came to 8 hrs total for my clock...remember don't burn your clock unless you have to =)
From IN to OH, then to St Louis, MO and finished the night out in IL. Drove 306 miles.