Anyone been through C1 at Springfield, MO?

Ok its Saturday. Got the day off. Gonna head out in a little while and practice my pretrip on a truck we have parked at the hotel. Figures I would be in school during THE coldest weeks of the year...its 17 degrees outside. Awesome. At least its sunny. Anyway, one week down, two more to go.

 

So far I do. I'm sure I will get a new roommate when the new guys show up this afternoon.

 

ok...its Tuesday, week two. Yesterday due to the weather, things were slower. We split up with trainers and worked on pretrip inspections. After lunch, we spent most of the afternoon straight line backing.

Today, when we got with our trainers, we hit the road 4 to a truck learning double clutching and downshifting. Run up through all the gears, back down through all the gears, repeat. Each student got an hour, and we will be doing the same every morning.
After lunch today we worked on offset backing maneuvers.

 

Two weeks down, one to go. Been hitting the road every morning for 4 hours then 4 hours of backing maneuvers in the afternoons. Still zero complaints. Soaking up plenty of information and getting plenty of time behind the wheel. We will be at the school all day tomorrow doing backing maneuvers and pretrip inspections.

 

The total cost of the school is $5995. I went through Driver Solutions and have a prehire with PAM. I have a 1 year commitment with PAM and will pay $1995 of the school cost. Sure, there are cheaper routes to get into the industry, but I have no complaints so far. I would recommend this school to anyone wanting to get in a truck.