My journey toward my dream career!!!!

Hey how is everybody doing? It's been a while since I have been on here so I figure its time to share my journey so far. Some may know I went to roadmaster trucking school in Columbus Ohio for the 3 week class they offer. Started school on the 4th of feb excited as hell and ready to chase my dream, got to school and some reason my name wasn't in the classroom attendance but wasn't a big deal they just penciled me in and got me to sign some paper and I was set to go. Some things you might wanna know before going I school is no matter what the school says go ahead and get your permit with all endorsements even if you don't plan on using them (might help in the long run with the endorsements, ill touch more on that later). Roadmaster however gives you time to go and get the permit but if you take too long to pass the permit test then you have to wait to test because you have to have your permit for 14 days before you can test (roadmaster will make you wait the full 14 days too). Sorry if I ain't staying on topic I'm not the writing type. Classroom time was easy but boring, the first day you will take a ton of boring test and you will wonder what you got yourself into but it's not too after the first day. The second day is when you take the piss test and physical and take more test, pretty much you take test everyday your there in the classroom. Thursday gets better cause you will get to go outside and do pretrips, my advice would be to do the in cab and brake test cause you will have plenty of time to do the outside when you are on the pad. Friday you will straight line back until it gets boring and then some, 10 hours of straight line backing gets really boring, I like that you had to keep a log book and have it up to date all the time. Monday Tuesday and Wednesday you will do all the backing, alley dock lane change and parallel parking, if I can remember you do each for 3 hours or 3 and a half hours. Thursday you do bump and grind Thursday where you shift up and down all day long (your leg will probably hurt lol) if your driver instructor is cool he will pick a person to drive back to the school. Friday Monday Tuesday and Wednesday you do city turning and driving and a little highway driving for half the day, the other half you will be doing backing. Thursday is backing all day to get ready for the test. the big day FRIDAY, test day. You will get there and check in with the test center and then go wait forever and be nervous as hell then do the Pretrip, once everybody gets done with the Pretrip you will do skills, once everybody that passed Pretrip is done with skills you will do the road part. It probably won't be that much people to do the road part cause your nerves will get the best of you on test day. I passed my test first shot, some stuff came up when they went to enter my scores and it came up that I had 2 unpaid tickets that I had to pay before I could get my cdl, of course I paid the money and got my license that following Monday. Now here is where it all really goes south, I set my orientation up for that Wednesday with USX and was all ready to go, right before leaving the house they call and say they cancelled it cause my mvr I was mad as hell but was understanding (I guess, still sucks I would love to drive for them right now but can't til November). So these past few days I been calling every company in the country (mega, large, small, mom and pop you name it I've called) I got a interview tomorrow hauling reefer for economy produce out of Cleveland, I hope all goes well cause I need the money bad, thank god school payments don't start til 5/15/13. This is all I can think of now but ima pretty sure ill write more tonight since I'm getting ready to ride the bus back to Cleveland. Hope y'all enjoy and if anybody is wanting to get there cdl and have questions about roadmaster feel tee to ask me. Stay safe out there.

 

Yea he still there. He done moved up to the main yard person. I didn't think I had wrote that much cause on my phone it just shows th small box. I'm goin to copy it and paste it but break it down lol I try to put a ton of info cause its stuff I was looking for when I was researching

 

Thanks for the good luck wishes everybody, in my eyes the interview went good today cause I'm taking a drug test and he was telling me the routes they run. I go back Tuesday to turn in the app and Thursday I do a route as a road test. Time to focus and do what I got to do to nail this job, ill be able to see my babies everyday and ill be making more money then I would at useless express, way more money.