New Career ... From the beginning.

Markus glad to hear you are feeling good about the shifting, it's kinda like before I started driving a big truck you know it was intimidating and once you drove it a little while it was like driving the pickup or car. I hope you find a company that you like and everything works out for you, see you on the road soooon

 

Well Mark, I think you will do great. I understand with all the confusion of learning to drive a truck, and in a short time to do it, a person will tend to forget things as they are put into real world driving. I expect that the same will happen to me when I start my driving. You will succeed!
I assume that all of your drives are 4hrs each. Since I dont live in that area, they worked my schedule to get me out of school as soon as possible so they have me scheduled to drive 8 hrs a few of my days. I am sure that learning to drive and doing it with a few 8 hr days instead of the usual 4 hr days, I will get tired and probably fudge up on everything but I cant wait to see what happens.
Keep up the good work and keep us posted!!!

 

Hey Mark, what happened with Roehl? Did you decide to go with SNI because you figured that it would be better running regional so you could be within a days drive from home?
Just curious cause I would like to drive for SNI and I have the same reservations about being dispatched to NYC all the time and I would like to see a part of the country that I havent already seen lol. If it comes down to it, I will take what I can get. Being new to the industry, cant expect to get the best runs. But I have this desire to go OTR and I havent seen anything in my area for OTR with SNI.

 

Sure, that sounds like a great idea. When is your road test scheduled? probably before I even get to start my driving.

 

This has been enjoyable to read and reminds me of when I was going through Sage trying to figure out who to work for. It also reminds me of when I would forget which gear I was in and the small struggles I had. Time goes by so quickly though and before you know it you will have your CDL and be out on the road with the rest of us. Towards the end of your schooling at Sage it will all begin to come together for you and you will be well prepared for the test. Practice the pre-trip each day a couple of times and it will stick with you. Thank you for the wonderful posts and keep them coming!

 

...will do, as soon as i have some to add...wish me luck!

 

You bet it will, You need to be looking about 15 seconds ahead of you and then adjust your driving to those conditions. Keep a good buffer zone around you give extra time/space to the 4 wheeler, try to anticipate what they will do by watching the traffic ahead.