old school only ..how did you learn how to drive ?

That's a cool story!

 

I learned the old fashion way as well. I went to a trucking school, back in the day, they were not mills. Other students would help each other, and the instructors actually worked with you, no one had cell phones stuck to thier ears, nor any texting while learning.
Sorry, but that's how I had to do it.

 

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was a class B, straight truck driver and we needed a bigger one.

we were leasing from UPS truck leasing, (yup,same company,lol).

they let me play in their yard untill I got it and went and took the test at a Charlotte driving school. passed.

 

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my pickup and jetski behind, and backing it in to garage and then just magnifying it in my head 10x.

 

I rode in a old Kenworth with my friends dad when I was a kid and I was hooked !!!

I went into Marines and as soon as I got out I bought a 1972 Brockway .
I learned to shift it on the way home .
The next day I called a local sand and rock place and asked if they were hiring .
The guy told me to come on over the next day and we could talk .
I drove it over and the guy asked if I had ever pulled a dump trailer I told him that I had not but that I was sure I could figure it out .
I never mentioned to him that I had never pulled any kind of trailer LMAO !!!

I hooked to the wagon and found my way to the quarry and then to the job site without killing anyone or hitting anything .
I didn't even know how the PTO worked but after a couple of tries I got that figured out .

I raised the bed and nothing came out !!!
The job boss came over calling me everything but a human and told me I had to open the blankety blank blank tailgate !!!
I just pushed the PTO knobs down and 20 tons of rock came down at a rapid rate and about threw me out of the truck !!
That really set the guy off and he lost his mind LOL I got the tail gate opened and dumped the load and went back for another one .

Well that was 34 years ago and I am still trucking and still love it as much today as I did that first day !!
That is just the first day of a life full of great trucking memories .

 

Went to a Truck School in 1984 to get my CDL, which meant Chauffeur's Driving License back then. Years later they were changed to Commercial Driving License, which is the current name. I had to master double-clutching, which was easy for me, to graduate, which some schools still require. My first driving job after I graduated was driving a two axle GMC tractor with a god-awful two-stroke Detroit Diesel that was gutless and sounded like it was going to fly apart at any moment. If I remember right it had a blower which it had to have to function as a two-stroke. They were sure noisy. Fond memories!