Geography? I've met people here in Michigan who think Washington State is somewhere by New Jersey!
Good post, GoBlue. My son's been using computers since age 4. He knows all the cellphone nav apps. He knows twenty different ways to search....
I just went thru Chicago a week ago Wed. at about 8 pm by car from Wisconsin to Michigan. Traffic went smoothly, no big tie-ups. Of course, real...
Good idea on the wallet-ectomy (hubby`s term). Son has been passenger since toddlerhood on long car trips and drove three girls (his platonic...
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Thanks. I think he'd be down there practicing every day if they let him and we owned a gas station. Lots more interesting than part-time pizza...
Thanks for the encouragements. School is Commercial Truck Deivers Institute, South Bend, IN. My son is staying positive, proud of each skill...
Son started a 3-week CDL course, finished it, failed driving test. Since then he's gone back several times to practice and/or retest. Parallel...
Watkins and Shepherd out of Taylor, Mich, near Detroit. 48 states, maybe Canada. Their website describes their freight. One of the companies...
Well, hurray! Passed parallel parking test. But ground gears on road test, so repeat whole thing next week. I checked with school just to make...
Truck traffic was always there the many years I've been driving a car but in my mind I lumped them together, never paid attention except as an...
My son is becoming an expert on parallel parking due to IN CDL test - 3 of the 5 students in his class had to come back this week to practice and...
Coming back on 294 around Chicago Wed. night I took time to notice how all those trucks were driving. Not one wandering into other lanes, most at...
So it sounds like more and more regional and dedicated routes and cutting back on longer OTR routes except maybe in the less populated stretches?...
Now that son is becoming a trucker i notice the trucks on our roads more. Yesterday (Sunday) was the first longer freeway trip I took lately....
Here in MI you have to get your background check first, rhen go back to DMV (SOS here) to take hazmat test. Fed site says it takes at least a...
I use TripAdvisor app on my phone. Shows choices and you can choose price range. Just planned a 16-night trip from Midwest to Pacific Coast and...
Well, third wk of CDL - TDI South Bend IN and son didn't pass his CDL rest. Got everyrhing down but parallel parking. Two others from his class...
Anyone have recent experience wirh Sprint? Wonder if their coverage is getting better? We have 18 months left on contract, unlimited text and...
I've been posting a lot on the forum just tryibg to learn what my son will be up against when he gets his CDL Not knowing anything about trucking...
