Things you noticed during training ?

Some of the “ladies of the evening” aren’t ladies at all.

 

I mostly learned in my uncles kenworth w900 and was about 14 years old, no license, and 90% of the time on logging roads. All i remember was that he said no matter what you do listen to the radio, call your kms, and clear the loaded trucks coming down or we die. Really that is about all I remember all these years later. I was too young and stupid thank God, to really understand what the hell I was doing, and how close I came to death every day.

 

My best recommendation for all trainees is to eat two cans of Stagg Dynamite Hot chili everyday of your training and while you're with your trainer.

 

Noticed how bad my trainer smelled after a day not showered. A French bar maid has nothing on several people in a truck. You can never have too much body spray, or Old Spice.
Also stupid trainer always had a tin of white pills he ate all day. And made me drive over my 14 hour rule, until my eyes watered, also made me use his log book while driving over my 14. What a nice guy. All this for $250 a week, and then 25 cpm after I went solo.

I love that song ever since I was young. "Just like a cherry cola." I think @Chinatown wrote that song??

 

The hardest part was developing proper habits. Driving is easy imo. Driving properly requires patience.

Developing patience is the hard part

 

The noise inside the truck is what almost stands out to me. My dad was an O-O for a short while and I went on a trip or two with him maybe 10-15 years before I ever thought about driving a truck. There wasn't much about being inside the truck or going to different places that was much of a surprise. Dad had a GMC cabover for a couple of years so almost any other truck feels spacious compared to that. In school I noticed the same guys having the hardest time learning a skill seemed almost more interested in telling EVERYONE why/how they didn't understand the task as actually shutting up, looking, and then asking a question.