Beginning the Long Awaited CDL Process

I didn't forget.

 

Hello everyone.


I checked with my driving school today and they do offer a 70 hr refresher course. I suppose that's good news. Of course it will all depend on whether or not the company I go with will accept a refresher course.

The doctors with voc.rehab are ordering up an MRI for Friday. They suspect there may be some mechanical problem that's causing my hearing loss, possibly something that can be fixed. That would be wonderful if it can be repaired, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Once they have the results of the MRI, I can move toward getting new hearing aids.

In other news:

This afternoon, I saw a tractor trailer, driving at excessive speed on I75 south of Atlanta (in heavy rain), jack-knife his rig today, right in front of me (so to speak). Trailer pushed him right around. No damage to the rig, but I'm sure he needed to change his shorts.

The interesting thing was, now that he has all the lanes blocked, he can unscrew himself with a simple alley back, but the impatient drivers kept driving around the front of his tractor in the breakdown lane and on the shoulder, trying to be "less" inconvenienced. Finally, after a few of us blocked the way so these asteroid orifices couldn't continue to exercise their 2 digit IQs, the driver was able to back up and then pull his rig over to the side.

Talking about how a semi can jack-knife is one thing, seeing it happen in front of you, is quite another thing. Watch your speed in wet weather and make sure you turn off your Jake brake.


Thanks for reading.
-Wedge

 

Funny thing here is that Millis was the first company I applied to, but I didn't follow upon the application and was not selected for their training program (they were getting 300 apps a day).

They did tell me to re-apply in 6 months. Never figured to be doing that.

 

Noisy that ticking is....

Hopefully things will get better after this MRI on Friday.


Sammycat, thanks for being there. It means a lot.

 

I'll call Christine when I'm set to go. The vocational rehab thing needs to be finished now that I'm home. Once that's done, I'll figure out what to do.