Appliances and Electronics in the truck?

Before you go crazy trying to "get everything," you need to back up, sit down and chill! You're #1 going for TRAINING! I'll put a couple of links in here at the end of other posts I've done that will help plan butyou really need to STOP!

Call the company and ask them some more questions. Will my trainer have an APU or Inverter in his truck. Does he have a microwave? Crock pot and will he share? Use of an inverter might not be a problem as you can only charge cells and laptops up so far!If you were getting in my truck and thought you would be "cooking" in it you will be waiting for the next trainer. I do use a microwave but as for cooking full meals, let me put it to you bluntly. Cooking in a truck smells the truck up! Oh a pot roast and taters and carrots will make anyones mouth water but after a while 3 wet dogs will start to smell good! Yes, it coats all the surfaces and is hard to clean and if you have never sponged a truck down from top to bottom on the inside with vinyl upholstery, it's a pain in the arse and I charge $500. for an interior detail! Also the windows get hard to clean! Velour and cloth will require several cans of cleaner or a wet and dry vac!

How much stuff do you think your trainer has in HIS truck and you're only going to be there for a month to 6 weeks? Again show up with the kitchen sink and you'll be waiting for the next trainer!

Ask the company those questions or have all of this stuff in a box that you can store until you make it back and think trucking is really what you want to do! This link page 17 is what you will need to take with you http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ivers/16652-packing-list-for-students-17.html

this is info about an inverter on page 7 and has pictures! http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr.../85815-eating-on-the-road-saving-money-7.html
Good Luck
Rollover

 

I think you owe an apology to Rollover.

The points made are very valid. When I was training, I had a student come on board with way too much stuff. He ended up leaving half of it behind.

It is the trainers truck. You will eat when and where he wants to. You will not have a large area to call your own.

The expenses that you will incur during training will be high enough. Decide on the items you need after you have your own truck.

 

No problem with a laptop, sleeping bag, changes of clothes and the like. With the laptop, if you do not have a car charger a small inverter that plugs into a dc socket is okay if cleared with the trainer.


The one student I mentioned, brought along a cooler of food plus all kinds of snack foods.

You want to travel light.

 

The reason I found out about the cooler was that it leaked all over my bunk.

 

OK I'm glad you finally read the link!
Now if I was intending to be insulting, you would have been insulted and insulted by one of the best and actually know it! And believe me I was not being insulting! I was being just as honest as I could have been and I usually am! 30+ in this business I have ALL the answers! And I have the whiskers to prove it! I also have beach front property in AZ! ROFL

Going back through all of the posts, you were sounding like you needed everything short of the kitchen sink. If you take out the stop, sit down and chill, I thought my post was as informative as I could have made it as I do with 90% of my other posts to the "kids" in this forum! As for the "you'll sit for the next driver"..Seen it! More than 1 time also! It will, still and has happened!

For everyone reading in this forum and this post. This is a VERY hard life you're about to set sail on and what you just thought was insulting could be very valuable information. If you can't handle a little criticism now, how will you handle a loud mouthed truck driver "all up in your face" or that shipper/receiver who just went 2 rounds with the same trucker before you in line at the window? Also remember this is the internet and type. No facial expressions or vocal tones to tell anything apart! I could have put the smiley faces in each line but I try to stay away from them as they use to much band width (not to say I haven't used them!LOL)

BUT, you got it finally! I'm glad you're not one of those who has to shower every day! I do go every other day as long as I don't have to "work"! I'm medically unable to work right now so all I have to do is sit and post as much helpful info for those of you who are trying to enter a very demanding field. The days of Smokey and the Bandit are gone. There are no more "Good Buddies" out there now as each and everyone of them are now watching their own backs and trying to keep from being stabbed by everyone from their bosses to their best friends out here. When advice is given look the horse in the mouth but take the advice! What you do with it is up to you! BUT watch that horse till it's in the next pasture as he can rear up and kick you too!

Wannabe, good luck out there and chill sweetheart! You're getting nervous and I can't blame you! It's good you actually asked the questions looking for as much info as you could which is more than i can say for 70% of the people trying to start out in trucking!
And even in trucking: knowledge IS power!
Good Luck
Rollover