Roehl July 17th

Congratulations, that's great.

 

Roehl is a great place to start! Congrats! Yes, it is a change for all concerned but the rewards are great. My advice is work hard, communicate, be patient with yourself and have fun.

 

I just started training this week at the Dallas terminal. So far I'm impressed with the program.

Congrats and good luck.

 

Hey bud, literally just graduated with my CDL this last Thursday and Im set to head out with my trainer Monday. If you have any questions just ask as I attended the Appleton facility as well and it was a great and enjoyable experience. My best advice would be dont give up and dont get discouraged no matter what anyone says or what you think. I went into the program with 0 experience, never even backing a boat trailer and grinding every gear I put it into... Now I have completed it after a full 3 weeks and have my CDL with only 8 points on the road test (had a strict tester who marked every grind)

 

I did post my experience in a thread! if you have any questions you can post there!

 

There is no problem with shorts most of the trainers wear them as well and you do not need steel toes im assuming you will be in the Reefer division with me since your going to Appleton. I only say that because I was told to bring them and only wore my tennis shoes. Also they say you need work gloves but I didnt use them even once in the reefer division. Just bring some if you dont want dirty hands during pre-trip. Unfortunately I dont have any advice on how to cope with that as I live 30 minutes from appleton and drove home every weekend but my roomate and other guys seemed to cope with it well by calling and skyping their family back in the hotel every day. Bring a laptop, tablet or download skype on your phone. The hotel has nice free wifi and their is a comfortable upstairs lobby where you can get some privacy to talk with them.