90 degree Alley dock question

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How long ago did you guys go to Clark State? $1700??? I am currently going and paid a total of $4700. There were 11 in my class, everyone there was on a grant but me. I couldn't get anything free since I wasn't a "displaced worker" Never mind that I had never been a driver but I had been/was/am involved in the transportation industry. I can tell you that I struggled with most of the backing skills, a lot.

 

Thanks alot. I've been dodgin' that all these months!

 

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I went back in November of 1998. $4700 is still a steal compared to Tri-state and those other places. I was one of the first people to take that course, they had 3 cabovers, 2 old internationals and 1 old blue Kenworth. Only one of the Internationals was even street legal, the other 2 tractors stayed on the yard for backing practice. They had 3 48 foot trailers, only one of them was road-worthy. They had a 20 week course, and a 4 week course, which all the instructors hated because they all said 4 weeks wasn't enough time, and I tend to agree with them. I ran into one of my instructors a few months ago, he quit teaching and went back to driving, we both delivered at the same place, if I remember right it was south of Memphis. He didn't even remember me. I told him I remember him, the first time I sat behind the wheel of a big truck he was sitting in the jump seat and said "just don't kill me."

 

I did my homework on schools and didnt want to be at a "driver mill" school like Roadmasters. So I picked Clark State. I opted for the college credit, just in case. The course is 5 weeks, 2 in class, 1 in backing skills, and 2 driving. Wish it was 20 weeks or even 10. Then you are supposed to be proficient enought to take the cdl exam and pass it. The backing I struggled at and never did master it all. I went in there thinking I would have no problem learning to back. But I did. I had to drop the course till March due to a family emergency.
Have you been back there since you got out? The equipment is OK and probably all road worthy now. My work history is all trucking so I have a better understanding than some of my classmates when it came to things other than driving. It will come to them on the road, while I have the advantage of working in it.
Hopefully the economy will pick up between now and then so I can get a job.
With your sn being as it is, do you drive for the mustard company?

 

No I've never been back there. I left Clark state for stevens transport out of dallas texas, worked there for a year, went to jb hunt and have been working for them ever since.

My screen name was lifted from an old Beatles song.

 

saying this is jest of course... if the $100 thing works let me know! LOL

 

I also went to tri-state had no complaints . Passed the test fiirst time through , my examiner told me i could pull up anytime i wanted to and as far or as little as i thought necessary. I didnt get the alley dock though i got parellel park.