JCT

Snowwy,
At least you got farther than I did on the phone ^.^ So JCT is still requiring 3 yrs experience, with at least 12months of that 3 yrs being OTR? The marketing team needs to fix it's jobsites adverts. wording.
Thank you in advance for answering.

Little Princess.
ps. as for schools, depending on where you are located at, 2 schools for refresher courses come to mind. Both expensive, yet both are DOE certified. One is in Kingman,AZ, at the college, Sage Trucking, out of Mohave Community College. The other is located Tuscan, AZ. It is HDS Professional Truck Driver Institute. Google will find contact information on both. Best bet would be to pick college closest to you, what will be able to tell you where you can get recertified for OTR.

 

i'm looking for someone that will put me to work though. not spend boo goo bucks to do schooling all over again and still not have a job. besides, if you school and work for the same company. you commit to payments for 52 weeks. so you end up actualy paying less for school. rahter then paying for full price for school and working somewhere else to which will be tough to find as most companies don't take greenhorns fresh out of school. only way i'm getting back in the game looks like is to take a refresher course with someone and be commited for 12 months quite possibly. that's 12 months i have to kill before even thinking about jct. with winter coming up i would rather be driving in the south. and 1/4 way to owning my own truck. and right now. i can't even find anyone offering a refresher course out of all the schools. two months ago there were courses. then there's the concept of running teams. no way in heck am i running through winter with a rookie. i want to see next summer, not get thrown in a ditch to go see grandma in the clouds. and being team sucks anyways.

 

well i am at my halfway point on this load... mullica hills new jersey to dixon california.. dixon is about 80 miles west of sacramento i believe. work keeps calling me asking why my qualcom is not responding... my response is... do you want the load on time or not? i didnt get loaded until yesterday morning and i have to deliver friday morning at 6am.... 2849 miles... I will be ontime...

 

also another question about orientation and the road test... this may sound stupid but,,,,, do you have to double clutch? i havent done that since my road test to get my cdl, LOL

 

nope just need to know how to drive it.

 

well goodnight all.... got 1400 miles to do by friday morning... and its 930pmcdt ....... stay safe out there and see you guys soon

 

Actually, you will have to double clutch it to downshift. The truck is a very old and rickity freightliner that they keep around only for the road test, and if you don't double clutch it to downshift, you will grind what is left of the gears! Then good ole' mikey will tell you to DC. I don't think he will fail you for grinding the gears, tho'! Truck is also VERY underpowered. I guess they think if you can drive that, you can drive just about anything!

 

excelguy and jarbo,

added you on face book.

KH

 

Hey Alan...thanks for the info today. We need to try and hook up somewhere for coffee. I will be at the yard for maintenance tomorrow, and try and drop this load off there. Hopefully it works out, and I can get out of town on something else on a quick turn....

 

Have you send a request to drop on the QC to let your DM know. They kinda get pissy when u just show up asking if you can drop it. just a word of advice that's all what you gotta do to the trk?