I wonder why the New Driver forum slowed down?

What?



Screw HOS! I gotta go!!!

 

Why are Old Timers so crass and mean to us noobs ?
Is it so hard to get out in your underwear and nicely explain to us what I did wrong when I accidentally ripped the hood off of your $180,000 Peterbilt while you slept ?

We all have to learn !!!!

 

And disturbed their (federally mandated) 10 hour break.

 

In my experience so far, this job is a lot like being a math student. When I took math classes, they would always shrink very quickly. Every semester, took the next class and it was the same thing. Class starts out with about 30 students. By midterm, divide that by 2. Then 3/4 divide by two again. Just in college algebra the once full class was down to about 5 people the day I took the final exam.

The same is true for what I've seen in my driving journey so far. Most never made it past the academy. They'd bomb drug tests, go out drinking and get caught, couldn't learn the clutch, couldn't pass the physical, couldn't read, got in fights or whatever. Those few of us that made it to the training truck, only about half of us made it to the end of that six weeks for different reasons. One guy's truck rolled and ended up with fractured bones. Got upset and left trucking. Few got deemed unsafe and were let go.

Been back for a few days for some R&R and I feel weird. Only been on the road for 6 weeks, but its had an effect so far.

 

NO, your not supposed to say anything bad about trucking. Repeat after me, Trucking is all beer and Skittles and I shalt not say otherwise!

 

Not bad, just different. When I got back to the office I missed my road test first day because I was so used to my trainer waking me up by just hollering. "Youre up bubba!"

 

Because it’s snowing!

 

They are getting an "OK to bypass" notification.

 

Jesus! He rolled the classroom truck?!? That would have shut down the school I went to, we only had three units in two locations.

One time during a pre-trip I noticed the inspections were expired, I told the instructor, he got on the phone with the boss, no classes for a week after that.

Well, heck with it, I passed. Been driving for 10 years now. I don't think it'll matter anymore.