Its official may orientation 6/4/13

he beat me to it! lol, phoenix is a major city... attracts major carriers

 

LOL that's exactly what the hubs said last night. He started orientation w/ may in brookings on the 4th too.

 

Bigdogg, did you have to talk though a pretrip inspection before the driving test, or incab inspection with brake checks?

 

when I went thru orientation, out of denver, we all went over doing an inspection but we were never actually tested on it

 

In Denver, they did implement a pre-trip type test when you solo out. The safety guy would sabotage the truck and trailer and have you do a pretrip to catch the things he did.

 

Oh, I thought we would be hired after the first day if we passed the drive test. In school we only drove 8,9,10 speeds and hoped for the May test we could shift the 13 speed like an 8 speed and learn the splitter on the road with our trainer.
I'm nervous about the alley dock, in school I only did it a few times with the instructor coaching, I hope I can do it by myself. And for the licensing test we were allowed to miss a few points and still pass if we didn't park perfect. I assume for May we have to do it perfect?
I go to orientation in Denver on the 18th.

 

You can look at the skills course right here May Trucking Skills Course

It's section in the upper right hand corner. You can view the horseshoe , straight and 45 back sections on the photo.

 

you dont have to do anything perfect. they know you're a student, they want to make sure you are being careful, getting out when you need to and checking the space around you. you can take as long as you want, get out as many times as you want. they dont want you to just back that sucker up like you know what you're doing without checking.
and you aren't fully hired until you solo out ^.^
when i went thru orientation we drove it like an 8 speed, didn't use all 13 until after coming back to solo out