Years ago that would be enough, but everything has changed. They may or may not road test you in an automatic, but they still have plenty of manuals. They aren’t going to pay to train you to drive a manual and if that is what you road test in you could be in a bind. Show up and hope for the best.
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I’m guaranteed to take a test in a manual. Asked if the truck will be a manual. I’ll just try to find somebody with a manual to practice or see if Penske rent manual trucks.
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I'm starting to feel I should have held out for feeders. Package car is no cakewalk (which I honestly wasn't expecting) but the onboarding process is straight up BS. One of you package drivers can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm getting the distinct impression that they want to keep you from making the union. I'm at day 36, no idea if I've qualified or not (judging by most metrics I am on par with the majority of other drivers), but I'm consistently hearing that I'm 1.5-2 hours over allotted time on my route, which is on average 60 miles, 160-190 stops, and 240-300 packages. I'm pushing 19-21 stops per hour, mixed rural and suburban... Oh, and coming in the door I was advised they'd keep me on the same route for 30 days, but several weeks in they switched me to another route that I had minimal area knowledge of.
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@JPenn hopefully you pull through the uncertainty. Go get that hazmat yesterday and protect yourself...
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