Day 19: Today was pretty low key. Started out with each of us doing a full Pre trip inspection, then took a road trip over to Bryan/College...
Day 18: Today was awesome for me! One of the instructors didn't show up, so Stephen kept us 3 and another group of 3 in the yard to practice...
Day 17: Pre trip inspection, brake test, then road drive with Stephen again. Took us down some narrow, hilly, twisty back country roads that were...
Day 15: Started out with pre trip inspection and brake test, then spent the entire morning practicing offset backing and parallel parking. It was...
Day 14: Today felt almost like a complete waste of my time. We started out the day with a road drive, but they put the last student from previous...
Day 13: We finally got a cool day(for TX at least), so we spent the entire morning practicing offset backing. I think each of us did both left to...
Day 12: Today started out like yesterday. Stephen had me do pre trip inspection then a road drive back towards park area for more parallel parking...
Day 11: Today was exhausting but went pretty well. One of the guys in our class didn't show up and the guy that's been struggling with shifting...
Day 10: Today was pretty awesome! Starting out, Stephen tested me on solo pre trip inspection. Got an 85% overall. I was 100% on in cab and brakes...
Day 9: Friday went pretty well overall. Started out in the morning doing pre trip inspection as a group then each of us did brake tests. After...
Day 8: Today went great! Started out the morning doing pre trip inspection then went for a road drive with instructor Stephen. Stephen has a great...
Day 7: Today went WAY better than yesterday. Started out doing pre trip inspection outside truck, then took turns doing air brake test followed by...
Day 6: Started out great! We took turns doing brake tests, then did straight line backing for awhile. Everyone took a turn uncoupling a trailer,...
Will do! There are definitely good and bad schools out there. ATDS is PTDI certified(though apparently this doesn't mean as much as it used to)...
Yes, 4 week school M-F. Weekend class available but I'm sure that one would be at least 8-10 weeks.
Day 5: Started the day with an open book test over regulations. Larry says they just want to know that we know how to look things up in the little...
Yup lesson learned. Trying to look on bright side. At least it was only 3/4 days instead of finding out at end of month and being stuck with...
After much research here and elsewhere, and living in East Texas, I decided to enroll at ATDS in Elm Mott(Waco), TX. Most of the information I had...
Yes sir. I'm a previous thread, a heavy load member recommended i submit applications ahead of time to attempt this. Seeing as I'm not sure if...
Before original posting, I had tried just putting N/A with 0 miles. It denied the application. The fields for date ranges are drop down boxes that...
