Accepted with Steven's - will be training in Colorado within the month

Well I have been accepted to be trained by Steven's, then to orientation for 4 days, then off with a trainer for 240 hours / 5-6 weeks, then get my own rig with a load heading back home and a 7 day break. This is the first company sponsored training company I have talked to that was 100% on the ball with every piece of information and getting back to me in a satisfactory amount of time. Note I never called CRE, CRST, or swift. I may have given swift a thought, however I know of sever drivers first year pay checks with them and they were less than average, also no APU and I believe a 15% idle policy makes for sweating your balls off during the summer.

Given that Steven's is a reefer company I am sure the miles are there and they have nice trucks. Not sure I can do a better job than Capper (and thank you sir for the journal!) at journaling my progress and it will be about the same, as his as I am going to the same place - however I will probably keep track of my days!

I have always wanted to drive a truck, I have driven across the US several times in a car. I put myself through college and ended up with an office job being a network engineer. People always say "their cushy office jobs" but with all the back stabbing, gossiping ######## that are in office buildings - I am glad to break out of there.

I have driven box trucks with cars in tow and boats in tow of trucks. I have also driven tractors when I was a pup as a yard jockey job hooking trailors, backing them to the dock them loading them with the fork lift. I was good at doing all this so I am hoping now that I am middle aged (In my 30's), I will do fine and pass through the first time. I am about 25% through the CDL manual in 2 days so far of studying and am passing the practice questions.

Wish me luck all! and maybe I will meet some of you out there.