Watkins Shepard, Here I Come

Yesterday we did dock parking practice for four hours straight. With only two of us doing it... I got it in the box exactly once. I was getting pretty frustrated and pretty much had a minor meltdown. We were shown a parallel park once, my classmate tried it once, I left.

Today was better. We did parallel parking and after the first botched attempt, that seemed to click. I can currently nail it on the first shot, every time. (This could change tomorrow, but today it's my favorite.) I can still back in a straight line, too.

The stupid dock park kills me. I cannot see the cones, so even as I start to get the hang of what I'm doing, I can't figure out where to stop and sometimes even can't see the cones to not "kill Kenny" (obliterate the cone). I got the trailer in the box twice, but I overshot (encroached?) both times.

Tomorrow we go to the DMV for pre-trip, brakes, and in-cab. For this, I'm not so worried. This is just memorization. If I can't get down the dock parking, though, I'm going to be hurting on Friday.

Off to recover for a bit. Night, all.

 

Yesterday we went to the DMV to finally take our pretrip and brakes, waited for 2 hours, then left without testing. Arrrrgh!

We drove to an area near the Ontario Airport and we learned how to drive... wooot! Double-clutching isn't bad, but I definitely like floating the gears. I'll just have to wait until I pass DMV to do it.

We saw a whole herd of England students just walking around, not driving. I felt badly for them.

Then, just to make sure I had to take Maalox (antiacid), I got to drive 20 miles on the freeway. Way fun, but way scary!

After we were done and I /finally/ landed one in the dock box, I went back by the classroom and met DirtyBob, who is also planning to head to W/S. *waves* He is easily the head of his class and the only one I would suggest for W/S.

Good day all around... but trying to not hit itty bitty four wheelers with my truck is freakin' nerve-wracking.

 

Yesterday we went to the DMV to finally take our pretrip and brakes, waited for 2 hours, then left without testing. Arrrrgh!

We drove to an area near the Ontario Airport and we learned how to drive... wooot! Double-clutching isn't bad, but I definitely like floating the gears. I'll just have to wait until I pass DMV to do it.

We saw a whole herd of England students just walking around, not driving. I felt badly for them.

Then, just to make sure I had to take Maalox (antiacid), I got to drive 20 miles on the freeway. Way fun, but way scary!

After we were done and I /finally/ landed one in the dock box, I went back by the classroom and met DirtyBob, who is also planning to head to W/S. *waves* He is easily the head of his class and the only one I would suggest for W/S.

Good day all around... but trying to not hit itty bitty four wheelers with my truck is freakin' nerve-wracking.