Arrived in texas for upcoming trans am orientation

You could have done something like this.....

 

I was thinking about giving it a few weeks to see what goes on. I guess I will have to put up with a T660 for a little bit.

 

Oddball question but it kinda relates to the situation.

How dependant are you on the GPS?

 

What did the officer say? Any ticket?

 

dont worry about that accident now just concentrate on what has to be done
the other stuff is what it is ancient history is anything after 5 minutes ago

 

anyone been following this thread from the start can look and see that what we think about when we begin isnt what we need to know and learn
as the process continues
for all of you students take note learn from missteps and mistakes we all make as we start this journey
concentrate on learning your job not on hometime and the shiniest new truck
there is something to think about every moment of the day
planning your day with fall back positions if the world happens to not revolve around you today
find a TS with an hour left to go not 5 minutes
your paid by the mile those extra 5 miles today will be there tommorow
and things happen it is called life just dont be the catalyst that brings on the storm

 

Midnight Mike, I'm so happy you did not abandon your truck. I had a few bumps in my first 8 months with Schneider that shook me up a bit, and I wanted out of the truck bad. But I just had to take a deep breath and calm down and I was ok. Missing the entrance to a customer happens all the time, you just have to keep calm and keep going straight until you find a big place to turn around. The small scratches won't go on your driving record, but Trans Am may make you get them fixed out of your maintenance escrow.

I just finished day 1 at orientation here in Olathe, Kansas, and I am not very happy, let me tell you why. First of all they had us (the ones that knew they wanted to lease) go over to finance. There were like 10 of us. Nobody explained to us what was going on. Then a lady came out with some slips of paper in a bowl, and told us to pick a number, so we did. Then she gave us a list of trucks and said 'ok go look at the trucks'. So I assumed that meant to pick a truck. Well only 2 trucks were new, the others were old. Then we had to run around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to find the trucks, there was no organization. I was only able to inspect about half of the trucks on the list, and oh did I mention that they were all locked? So by the time I asked for keys, and was able to open and look inside a few of them, about half of the trucks on the list were taken. My husband says he was looking at one truck and someone walked up to him and said 'that's my truck I already picked that out'. Nice. So I ask the lady if we can just put our name on the list to get a new truck, and she said that we HAD to pick from the list. So by now an hour has passed and everyone is running around and I don't know where all the trucks are, so I just picked one that I had seen that I thought was ok, but I was not completely happy with. But my husband didn't see it so we went out to look at it, but it wasn't there!! So now we have a truck that we haven't test drove and my husband hasn't even looked at but tomorrow we are going to sign our life away on.

The organization in that company is laughable. The guy that is supposed to be our instructor often stands in the front of the room and mumbles stuff that only the front of the room can hear, and cracks jokes all day. And I feel like we are being rushed into leasing a truck that we don't want, and we are being treated like company drivers not owner/operators.

Anyway there are other things but I think I'm going to start a new thread. So far I am not impressed with their leasing program or how they handle things at all. At least the hotel is nice.