No sweat 94nole i am curious as too the answer as well. Shaw must not be too bad if you are willing to try them again. As for me they are a better fit with my long term goals than I feel schneider is at this time 1. I want to run reefers. 2. I want my wife to be able to take my wife with me as soon as I can Schnieder makes you wait 6 months. 3. Schneider is wanting me to run regional, and the miles i was quoted by recruiting are lower than i had hoped for.
My trucking adventure begins, started school today.
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May I ask how many miles WSE said to expect per week?
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Well week 7 is over, spent the majority of the week perfecting our backing skills. I am confident that I will not have a problem with the test next week. I have the pre trip down pat, I am comfortable with all of the maneuvers straight line is a piece of cake the offsets i can usually do with no pullups, parallel i can do with no more than one pullup, and the alley dock I have been getting in with no pull ups most of the time. And I should have no problem with the road portion either. So once I get past next week the real adventure will begin.
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The pay isn't great...but according to the vets out there, it's not too great anywhere. Got to get the seat time in and then I can pursue other avenues.JustSonny and beboppinbigun1 Thank this. -
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what a day today was, we drove around the course that we will be doing the road test on. OMG if it would have been the test I was the only one who would have passed. Both of the others hit curbs, one of them hit two of them, he also almost killed it going around a corner in to high of a gear then he lost it downshifting coming to a stop and kicked into neutral and just coasted to a stop three times. I swear he has absolutley no business being in a truck. I am glad that I don't have to ride with him anymore. Anyway some backing practice tommorrow and then I am off wednesday then I test thursday i will post my results then.
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Alright y'all I have my CDL now. the test went better than I had hoped for, I got a 92 on the pre trip did the backing without losing any points, and the road test was perfect as well no points off. Now I have to decide who to go with, I have three companies that want me to start orientation the week of the 24th. Then when I got home this afternoon I got a call from A friend of my neighbors about a job driving for an owner operator out of Memphis. I am supposed to talk to him Saturday and find out all the particulars. The guy that called me used to drive for him and said that it is a pretty good gig but I will have to check it out and see.
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WELL CRAP! when things go bad they all go bad at once. I have been talking to WSE now for about a month and everything was supposed to be a go for me to go to orientation on the 24th and today I find out that my application was not accepted, Also talked to the OO that was needing a driver and that does not sound like it will work out either. Talked to KLLM and I have to gather a bunch of info for them and then see what happens, Scneider still might be a option, guess I am back to researching and putting in aps. Oh well I am not about to give up yet by any means.
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