Should be starting Roehl in late February

Last job was as a biology post doc but funding ended late last year so I decided to return to driving a truck after nothing else panned out.

 

Well tomorrow is the CDL driving exam. All the guys in my class are very well prepared to pass it with flying colors barring some sort of brain fart. Looking forward to knocking that out and starting the OTR training portion. Today was pretty laid back, a little backing and a couple of hour trips around the town and then a couple of hours in class this afternoon. All in all the school has been very good and I can't really think about anything in the complaints department worth mentioning. T-bone dinner on the line from Jason if both students in the truck make perfect scores, probably not going to happen but going to give her a shot.

 

Thank guys and gals. Things went fine with the road test, only had one screw up. Forgot to push the hi/lo splitter back to low after the emergency stop portion of the test. The testers you could tell were pretty cool when they walked into the classroom and starting ############ a little bit. Made everyone alot more at ease which was nice. Everyone passed. Got probably another half day or so of paper work stuff to do tomorrow before they cut us loose. The Wisconsin CDL cost me 86.00 as an out of stater, don't know what it will cost to get it changed over to NC but I am sure it ain't going to be free For those traveling greater than 100 miles to the school they will reimburse you for gas for the round trip at 0.13/mile at the conclusion of school, they did not tell me that before I went so that was a nice surprise.

 

Well I am in blustery Gary, Indiana. Got a call that I needed to pick up another driver in Virginia and told to come to Gary as it would be easier to get a trainer. So drove all day yesterday and arrived here a couple of hours ago dead tired. Got a message from my trainer (Bob) that he should arrive here sometime this afternoon or tonight. So got to get a little sleep before finding out what to do with this rental car, hope they can take care of that here. I will try to drop a line from the road whenever there is a reasonable opportunity.