I Passed!

I see where your from, you know the "skill" of eating craw fish? I was down by the pilot in LaPlass? Louisiana at a lil bar and I got the lesson... Suck the head? Sounds not to appealing but, good eats... Good people to... Been awhile since I've been down that way, I'm craving that and real deal Po Boy's...

 

Been watching your threads. Congrats man! Keep up a positive attitude and thats 90% of trucking.

 

Cool. I had a bad trainer. Didnt realize it till I was on my own. I had to teach myself a lot like how to check tread depth. How to fix things on the truck etc. How to trip plan.

 

What things on the truck should a student be learning to fix? One doesn't hear too much about this.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

It stinks but there a lot of em out there. I'm often too good. Most wanna be reefer drivers want nothing to do with priming a reefer. "I'll just call breakdown." "And breakdown is going to go over the step by step process of how to prime a reefer."


But I rember getting out on my own too, trip planning was never really covered. I ###### up early on because of it. But somehow I came through, and now I'm trying to give the new guys a better education than I had.

 

If I high hook and how not to high hook. Replace a light bulb. How to adjust the tandems.

 

He taught me how to trip plan based on running teams like we were somewhat. I would drive full 10 with him next to me then hed drive 4 or 5 while I slept. Do 10 back at it again.

 

Ahh. Fell for that one myself, ran it to the limit. Came close to back firing big time when I got delayed early on. Ended up getting delayed and I couldn't make it to where I planned to stop, ended up spotting a casino, hit the ramp, went on duty, and kept it under 10mph till I finally got to the casino. That was a valuable nerve racking lesson.