CR England...Cedar Hill, Tx location

Straight line backing yesterday was cake...as expected. Today we broke up into 3 groups...pre-trip inspection, offset and parallel parking. I was in the pre-trip group first...I believe I have it down pretty well, I polish up tomorrow and Monday if necessary. We're at lunch right now...ill be doing offset and parallel parking this afternoon. I wasn't REALLY concerned with offset but the parallel I was concerned with seeing how many people fail it....but...after talking with another student who went through that section this morning...my nerves are eased a little.

 

Off for Christmas Day today. We'll be in class a couple hours in the morning then out to the backing range. We got about 18" snow last night/today.....I'm sure they'll have the range clear though. Parallel parking is the only thing I havnt done. I feel pretty confident about it though and confident about everything else as well.

 

Went over Pre-Trip again yesterday and I've got it down. Went over parallel park and after a couple of run throughs with the instructor I was able to nail it without any instruction. I'm ready to test!

We have a meeting this morning at 6:45 where, I assume, they'll go over our testing schedule. I BELIEVE I have to wait a mandatory 14 days (from issuance of CLP) before I can test...that would be December 29th. I'll know some details in an hour or so.

 

They called out the testing schedule and I don't test until Friday...I would of rather tested today...oh well. Split us into groups for some refresher/final evaluation driving....there are 8 people in my group, I was told to come back at 1pm. Glad we get to drive again...I'm confident about every aspect of testing. I'll go over my Pre-trip over the next few days just to make sure I'm solid...just a waiting game till Friday I guess.

 

Been fighting a cold so I was glad we just had a wrap up class inside all day yesterday (for those of us that weren't testing yesterday). It was long and boring but I did pick up a few things.

I didn't really feel I needed any backing work but I decided since I woke up feeling pretty good this morning i would go ahead and hit the range once the sun came out good and it warmed up some.

About noon it hit a balmy 30 degrees so I went on out. Nailed my offset, nailed my parallel and headed back in.

I believe in ready to go but I'll read over pre-trip tonite, read over in cab and the air break test again...can't hurt. Test tomorrow!

 

Passed!!

On to orientation

 

Thank You!