My adventures with Western Pacific Truck School Modesto CA

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  1. thePUNISHER

    thePUNISHER Medium Load Member

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    Way to go! So who did you get on with? CFL?
     
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  3. Swimmin' Deep

    Swimmin' Deep Light Load Member

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    Thanks Punisher!!!
    When I am called into work I will fill in the rest of the details.
     
  4. jet460

    jet460 Heavy Load Member

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    Pulling doubles as your first job?
    Sounds like a handful.
    My instructor never bother to show us how to even hook up a set, let alone drive them.
    Good luck with it.
    I am finding out that turning corners with a 53' trailer is a lot harder than it looks, especially in traffic. Yikes.
     
  5. thePUNISHER

    thePUNISHER Medium Load Member

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    Actually pulling doubles is a lot easier than pulling a 53 footer. Turns a lot easier. I guess I was lucky, we got to pull doubles a few times in school. Maneuvering the dollies can be a pain in the arse but you get the hang of it with practice. It looks like I'll be pullin doubles too in a couple weeks, hauling almonds from the field to the plant.
     
  6. jet460

    jet460 Heavy Load Member

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    I guess it would be. I see triples outside of Cal all the time. I am in Portland right now with 48,000lbs of flour to deliver tomorrow morning. Apparently people in Oregon love pancakes lol.
     
  7. thePUNISHER

    thePUNISHER Medium Load Member

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    Pulling 2 trailers is enough for me, i can't imagine pulling 3! Things smoothing out for you at W/S?
     
  8. jet460

    jet460 Heavy Load Member

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    Smoothing out in the sense that I am figuring out their system for the most part. Every day I go somewhere I have never been, so it's very difficult at times. Took hwy 14 on the Wa side of the Columbia river all the way to Vancouver today.
    2 lanes of twisting mountain road with these narrow little tunnels.
    My arms are about to fall off.
    Getting to know a lot of truck stops.
    Not as bad as some people think.
    At least not the ones I have been to.
    Actually, it's kind of nice to have a place to just park and sleep after a long drive.
    The showers have been better than I expected too.
     
  9. thePUNISHER

    thePUNISHER Medium Load Member

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    Cool. The more you do it the easier it'll get. I figure that first week was hard, specially with the breakdowns/low miles. I'm sure the miles will pick up too with a little time. The more you show them you can run the harder they will run you.
     
  10. jet460

    jet460 Heavy Load Member

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    I am getting about 400-500 mi per day now. Hope that keeps up. Nothing is worse than sitting at a terminal waiting for a load. Spent 4th of July at a mall in Denver waiting for a load. It was hotter than hell. Denver reminds me way too much of Sacramento. Dirtiest air I have ever seen. Horrible.
     
  11. thePUNISHER

    thePUNISHER Medium Load Member

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    Well that's decent miles. Sucks about sitting round in denver though. I've never been there but i figured the air would've been a lot cleaner up there in the mountains, guess not.
     
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