Starting Orientation at Troutdale

Howdy folks, I'm scheduled for an orientation on Tuesday May 19th at the Troutdale terminal. I'm an experienced former Pumpkin driver, but I don't have any verifiable in the past 10 years because I drove overseas on a Middle Eastern military base, so I'll be going out with a mentor. Anyone gone through Troutdale for orientation? I live in Portland so I won't be staying at the hotel, just hope my skills aren't rusty!

 

Sounds great! Hope things go well enough, and that the mentor I have know what they're doing. The recruiter was saying that mentor assignment is pretty random.

 

When I trained with Schneider, my "Training Engineer" definitely got me trained up, but he had annoying habits not unlike John Candy's character in "Trains, Planes and Automobiles."
@inkeper You're right, can't hurt to ask!

 

Because I got injured pretty bad, was sliding tandems (they were ancient!) and the spring mechanism yanked back on my arm. Couldn't use my right hand for a year and a half! Needless to say, my nerves regrew, and I got a settlement through Workers Comp.
I really don't have any bad words for Schneider, I wasn't dedicated, but for about 3 months, I had runs to and from California and was home on every Friday night during that time. Good miles too!

 

No, but he used both towels in the room for himself! I had a small one and felt just like Steve Martin's character! I googled my trainer to see if he'd keeled over (wasn't a buffet he didn't love), turns out he lost 200 lbs and lectures truck drivers about nutrition now!