My adventures with Western Pacific Truck School Modesto CA

Sounds like you're having little to no problems at all.

Until testing, I had never had to pull-up on a straight back. I would suggest deliberately coming in at a wrong or different angle just to make sure that the different location doesn't throw you off, but it could be just me.

Otherwise, I'm in awe and just hope I can do as well as you when I retest later this week. Have a great week in class!

 

Good to hear! Sounds like your doing pretty good. Next thing ya know you'll be on your own!




American Trucker

 

ahh thats nothing to worry about! I'm sure you'll do fine, it sounds ALLOT worse then it is. I didnt do it in MT so I cant comment on how they do things there, but In conover we had allot of fun while getting through everything. Just go in confident and willing to learn whatever they want to teach you!

And for the mountian take all the info from the book about never takeing a truck out of gear on a grade, and erase it from your brain! all thats going to do it scare you, there is nothing to worry about you'll be going slow and trust me the brakes on the truck are more then enough to stop you should you freak and not be able to get it back in gear lol. Its fun once you get the hang of it. Especally in front of the old timers that sware you'll die if you even think about taking it out of gear Old people are just SO cute!




American Trucker

 

Hmph. I /am/ cute, but I don't like being called old people. *snickerandrun*

 

Sounds good man! Keep up the good work! Nice to have a trainer with you for downtown mo-town....my first time was my 3rd day solo. Those lanes get pretty small! lol.

Good luck and keep on truckin!

 

Man you guys got to start out with the small trailers? We went straight to the 48 footer. Now we are running the DMV test route on our drive day and then running the DMV skills tests and pretrip on our skills day. We are using the small trailer for the DMV test route tho, so that is all we are taking out now. The fun part was the first time we went to the truck stop and backed in to park with the 48ft trailer. The funny thing is, is it was easier for me to park that 48ft trailer than it is the short one. I over shoot things now in the little one when I am backing.

I am glad things are going well for you. Since I scheduled my flight to Missoula so close to my graduation date, I have been pestering the manager to make sure that our testing was going to be prior to the graduation day. The last two classes have had to test after they graduated school. But she swears that I am scheduled prior to graduation. She even said that they "might" have to have me test early. But for some reason she wont let me know when my appointment is scheduled for.

So hey did you get the email that I sent you on Sunday? Let me know if they allow you to try that, and how it works for you. I will talk to you later and am glad to hear things are going well for you.

Talk to you later

James