well i am off to GA for Werner orientation

Welcome to the big road ! You'll do just fine out there

 

LOL!!! Good luck Be safe. Don't let anyone make you do anything you don't feel good about.

 

good luck, hang in there and be safe

 

Good luck Hope all goes well. Looking into Swift myself. Not sure where to go already have an orentation date set for the 19th with US Express but thinking about Swift also.

 

It won't be easy at first but you will get used to being gone and it will get better. But once you go solo and have your own truck and go home for hometime, that is when it will become hard again, saying bye to the kids mostly. It was hard for me and I had 2 kids at the time when I was OTR and my wife was always crying too along with them LoL. So the initial byes and leaving is hard but that wears off in the first few hours or day of leaving then you slide back into your routine of habit and schedule and it is easy lol. But leaving home for me was always the hardest part with all of them crying and wanting me home and what not.

 

Good luck and remember that Werner will piss u off. Get ur first year. Bite ur tounge. Don't piss off dispatch or u will starve. Don't hit nothin goal always!!! Park at Walmart. Avoid truckstops for overnights get a 12 v crockpot and a bunch of cans of food and some bread. Don't buy an electric cooler. Buy a tire pressure gauge and one of those inflation hoses that hook to the emergency trailer hose. Buy a truck GPS and an Atlas ASAP. And again don't hit anything!!! And always carry a knife!!!

 

Good luck out there. Werner was my first company and at that time they had bumped it up to 325 hours of training. If you can get past the initial training hump you'll do fine. I myself start with a new company on Monday.

 

Make sure that Wal-Mart you wanna park at allows overnight parking or you will be paying a towing bill or fine.

 

A lot of the Walmarts in Ohio starting to post signs about no over night parking, else you pay towing fine.

Some Walmarts are noise ordinance meaning they allow deliveries from 7am - 10pm so don't get caught at night time.

Usuaully look for where the other trucks are parked, on one side or the other, usually grocery side.

Good luck!