Medical Question - Diabetes

thanks fozzy i realy apreciate your help.after what happend at driver solutions last month i'am a bit gun shy i hope to meat u some day on the road or maybe waiting for a load some ware as far as the school and tests that doesent bother me i can drive any thing hell i drove farm equipment at 13 yrs old and drove a big rig wrecker for my familys buisness when i was 16 i've been a auto body man and mechanic all my life and i hate it but my experiance helps with things like the brake section of the tests i was devorced 3 years ago kids grown and life on the road will not be a problem for me at all i do have a girl freind and she's pretty understanding about how life is fixen to be for us. we'll see how it goes i'am also a little worried about the fact that about the time i start driveing on my own winter will be around the corner and dont want to drive off a mountan lol but thats about it i look at it like this i plan to run hard take what they give me and roll with it no bills exept for my cell so hope to make a little bank for my self over a coupel of years on the road and buy me a little place in the country and drive local after that thats my plan any way.one more thing i live 30 miles south of houston i know stevens has a terminal there will that increase my chances of getting some short home time not that it matters alot like i said i'll run my butt off just wondering.thanks so much for your advice a realy aprieciate it.thanks

 

just got back from seminar with stevens whent good talked to lew and im set to go to dallas the 29th. from there whent to docter bs 115 good a1c 6.5 urin glucose just a trace bp 134/88 lost 8lbs since last visit on the 1st aug.doc says shuld have no problem with dot not bad seeing how i had beakfast and 3 cups coffe and a half pack cigs this morning

 

That must be new. Did they do it in house or send it out to a lab? My doctors office has the lab equipment on sight, so I get the result back in 5. Before that it would take a week.

 

its a clinic and yes they have thier own lab the a1c was a finger pric like you do with your glucose monitor its a funny little device that was a one time use type of thing and the urin test was strips like the dot doc uses.

 

Wait, are you in Dallas? All they ever did there was a standard glucometer done by the nurse in the office. Just like the one I use at home. And in the truck, and at the restaurant.....

An A1C test needs lab equipment, they didn't have that equipment in 09 when I was there, but maybe I missed something and you are NOT at the Dallas yard.

 

Wow, I missed a couple of posts. I thought you were getting an A1C in Dallas at the in house doc. My bad.

You won't be running into me anytime soon as I am currently driving a desk. I was doing ok at Stevens until I opted for the lease program. I had a real run of bad luck/break downs/stupidity on my part that ended me up almost 3K in the hole. Couple that with not being home but twice in 8 months for any real chunk of time and I hung it up.
Collected unemployment for a while, went to college for a while, then just as my benefits ran out got a job where I am being paid to post on this forum. Not really. I actually write code for a large IT company, who shall be nameless.

For a while. Never say never.

I'm starting to feel that itch.

BTW, as far as I know Stevens has only one "Terminal" in Dallas, they have a drop yard in Laredo, tx that has showers, landry and great AC last time I was there as well as TV. They have a few other drop yards, but I don't know of one in Houston, but you can secure the truck at just about any KW/PB dealer for home time. Just get the number and call ahead and ask the dealer if they have room for you to park.

To quote the safety director "I can teach you 100 ways to park the truck, but I can't teach you to drive it on ice, and don't want to." If the weather/road conditions scare you, park the truck, call safety and let them know. I only had to do it once, but 5 minutes after I parked in Limon, CO, they closed every road in the state.

 

again..i am learning a lot on here. so many questions about everything..and answers...bob good luck to you next week..will be interested to hear how you are doing in a few weeks

 

wow sorry to hear that i.am not going to fall for that lease crap that i've allready decided after not seeing any thing good about it here on the foum atleast not much any ways and you just confirmd it for me no lease deal for me no thanks they wer realy pushing that today at the siminar.hope you dont mind me bugging you for advice out of all the posts i've read you seem to have the most recent and acurat info on stevens and the best attitude after the siminar today as i was leaveing i seen a swift truck backed up to the loading dock talked to the driver for a while said he's been with them for about 6 months and is happy he showd me around the truck and how qc and papperless log looked very interesting nice guy gave me his cell said if i ever needed any thing or had any question to give him a call glad i stopd to talk to him.about winter driveing grew up in indiana and used to work at the indy 500 truck stop on i65 whites town ind.and have seen trucks snowd in for weeks there dont whant that to happen to me but i dont whant any driver to driver mngr issues either.i'am gona try and be the guy that nt wine and cry about the small stuff and take the good with the bad.thanks for all your help hope you get back on the road someday.

 

You can get more recent advice in the Stevens Aviary thread, a lot of those folks actually still work there. I haven't received a card or letter from Stevens in a couple of months asking me to come back, I wonder if they are mad that I was successful at filing bankruptcy on all that money I owed them?

Anyway, no worries, I am happy to have things to fill my time while my code is "compiling". Bug away. Time to head home. Later.

 

thanks fox i plan to keep post on my training at stevens just hope i get by the dot ok thats my biggest concern rite now r u in training or thinking about it? from what i have gatherd stevens is the best of the so called cdl mills out ther i've checked them all out. i have been working on this for months but you can learn alot here just keep in mind there is good and bad points with any company wether it be in trucking or any thing els fozzy bear has alot of good info and has a good atitude even after haveing a bad stroke of luck he still has a positive attitude you can learn alot from his posts.