Trying to decide when to go to school

This is late to try and avoid snows,...

 

I'm retireing from GM at the end of this week...WaHoooooooooooo...and plan on taking off the rest of the year for some r 'n r and to get our house ready to sell next spring. After we buy our new home and get settled in, is when I plan to start my trucking career, which will be sometime next fall. I would like to time it so I am with a trainer during the winter snow. I would imagine that the same principles for driving your personal vehicle, like taking it slow and easy, would apply. But I figure that a trainer riding with me would be a big advatage, especially during that first snow storm. Then if I can handle driving on snow covered roads during the winter, then the spring, summer and fall should be a breeze.

 

I guess I take a different view, I can certainly understand wanting to be with a trainer your first winter but there are alot of trainers out there that need training themselves and dont really have lots of experience in winter conditions, if at all. Myself, I would want to take the eariler course and then you will have time (hopefully) to get to know your truck, transmission, shifting, how your truck and trailer react to different conditions, then when winter comes you will at least know what's what and not have to rely on someone that "might" think they know whats going on. Either way just use common sense and you will probably be ok.