Trans Am as seen by Broke Down 69

Hope it works out for you i'll be glued to the TV for game day I figure I might as well get as much football in as i can cause come Monday it will probably be not so easy to catch games being on the road. ROLLTIDE

 

Well the color sucks but hopefully it will treat you well.

Good luck to you.

 

HAHA don't worry NICK SABAN will be fine #ROLLTIDE.....

 

Rookies training rookies. What a recipe for a disaster. And yet these companies just keep churning out the newbies, and chewing up the drivers who might be interested in staying long enough to learn to be a good mentor.

 

My trainer at a mega over 7 years ago had over 2,000,000 miles under his belt.

Most of what I needed was to learn how the system worked in the company as far as procedures, etc. Everything else after that was just a matter of time behind the wheel.

The school I went to for my CDL had an older retired boy from N.C. with over 2,000,000 miles too. He was great in teaching me the importance of setting up in the right gear and utilizing the jakes BEFORE you head down a steep grade.

We had plenty of practice as I live in Oregon and we were able to utilize that skill many times by driving through the hills in our area with weighted drums in the 48' trailers we pulled.

Most of what we do in a big rig is just using common sense and exercising courteous practices...

Like anything else in life, the HOW TO(s) come with repetition. And even after you think you know it all, there comes those humbling moments when it takes 5 pull ups to back straight into an open dock with no one around and 200' of clearance in front of you

 

Actually it's much more humbling when the whole dock crew is standing around watching you make those pull ups. And there is nobody that has been driving any were near a year, that this hasn't happened too.

 

Well you must have got a truck good deal. I'm leaving out in the a.m. if it's ok with you @Broke Down 69 I will post some of my experience from Rockwall on this same thread maybe it will help someone one day seeing two different perspective's of things at TA. If not just let me know. Good luck out there driver.

 

I noticed that many schools and megas don't teach new drivers how to climb hills. When I used to run to the west coast on I-80 every time I was in that hilly area around SLC I saw a Werner, Swift or other mega with an overheated engine on the side of the highway.