Millis OTR journal

Congrats! Made a good choice. Just listen to Bill, your instructor, and you'll ve just fine. Bill has been doing this a long time and is a good dude he will teach you the right way. Any questions feel free to ask us

 

Nice!

 

Bill is a good instructor. Quirky as #### sometimes, but he knows what he's doing. Practice all you can on the backing range on range week. At least to me, backing up is the hardest part of this job, so better to kill some cones now than to kill a trailer, somebody's truck, or somebody later on.

 

I have found it easier if my tandems are further back, but not all the way back. More like "barely legal" back. I hate trying to back up with my tandems all the way forward. Because like you said, you don't know where the back of your trailer is without GOALing 2894984 times.

 

Fortunately I didn't reload from there. Are you talking about the place over on Calumet? I looked at it on Google and it doesn't look terribly awful... but not particularly fun either. At least you can sight-side into it.

Speaking of which.. I saw a guy blind-side back into a parking spot yesterday and made it look better than I've ever done backing in sight-side. Granted he had empty parking spots on both sides so he didn't have to worry about hitting anything, but still. It was humbling.

 

Since I'm so #### grumpy today after having a tooth pulled this morning, I appreciate that bruh. Just got a fifth of Crown Royal. Gotta get one of those tshirts.