How the heck do guys who cant back up get their cdl?

I would buy it yesterday

 

My company trains for the test. When I was with a trainer for the 7-10 days you get one, we ran team loads and she was asleep most of the time. There is a lot more to the story but I barely had any time actually backing supervised. My company is pushing out students so if I had 3 months with a trainer, I would have this. I can hit top times in my fleet but my company tells us not to back if we don’t have to. It’s a big one. And they tell trainers that the trainers don’t have to let you back because “we proved we can by getting our CDLs”.

 

My company trains for the test. When I was with a trainer for the 7-10 days you get one, we ran team loads and she was asleep most of the time. There is a lot more to the story but I barely had any time actually backing supervised. My company is pushing out students so if I had 3 months with a trainer, I would have this. I can hit top times in my fleet but my company tells us not to back if we don’t have to. It’s a big one. And they tell trainers that the trainers don’t have to let you back because “we proved we can by getting our CDLs”. And I am eligible to train at 6 months

 

I get no time actually backing and had very little training. I passed my CDL. My real question, given that I take forever, if I did this job topless would people be less mean about it? They were soo much nicer about how long it took me to wash my windows when I was wearing short shorts....

 

It couldn't hurt. They'd be GOALing you for sure. lol

 

Pic of you in shorts or it didn’t happen

 

I never finished it

Which is kind of a shame, since I spend half my time hostling now and am a better backer than ever.

The problem is that backing is just kind of hard to explain.

Do you drive for Schneider? I've seen a woman driver matching that description around our depot a few times...

 

I definitely attempted to back then pulled head first into a spot after nearly hitting another truck. Background, there was a dust blowing. In the last hour my air pressure dropped and my spring brakes nearly deployed during a storm. My teammate wouldn’t get out of bed so I could get cones to check my glad hands. I had passed 3 trucks that tipped just from the wind in the last hour. My left trailer brakes Started dragging on my way to the truck stop. And all I could remember related to trucking while attempting to back was “I clearly did not apply Enough deodorant to mitigate the situation.” I was just done. The point being, treat yourself and the people around you with enough compassion to be able to survive this job. Also, never wear underwire in a crisis. The latter is much much better advise.

 

Nope. CRE. Try taking pictures and adding flash cards so people can recognize how to correct in certain situations