Glad to hear I will be driving a stick !! Being a new driver, if I have to teach somebody how to drive a stick, I'm sure a lot of great dead and gone truck drivers would be rolling over in their graves .
Pre-hire letters are great and serve a purpose. Just make sure you get several from different companies, even if you've already decided who you want to hire on with. Others have posted about getting pre-hire letters and then being told a few weeks later that "we're not hiring right now". In fact, KLLM just did this. I was fortunate that I had received a orientation date and so I am O.K. and will be in Jackson on 1/12. Good luck, and don't put all your eggs in one basket while you are in trucking school.
Hey, trucker mike I am coming out of a sales background too. Good luck with your plans, and since I will be going to orientation on Jan. 12th, let me know in the future if you have any questions about what orientation and/or training was like.
Hey there - Not a problem, but I was just looking over KLLM's application (which I am applying anyway), and I noticed at the bottom that there was a clause about a polygraph test. Is that something that I should expect at orientation? Or later down the road? Again, like I said, not a problem..... I'm an open book (and I have been a "good boy"), but that is the first time I have seen that when applying to the various companies, and I was just curious Thanks!
I reported the bugs to the hotel owner directly and to Wyndham corporate. I'll be chasing it up with KLLM Jackson on Monday; I didn't realize what they were until Christmas Day. In a truck they'd be horrific. BTW, *any* hotel can get bed bugs, including high-dollar places like Marriott. This Super 8 is probably as good as any Super 8, but I'm still itching and even if I didn't bring any bugs home with me, I probably will be for several weeks.
REALLY? OMG!!! Man, oh man!! *drool* I had not heard this.... RT (whose nickname growing up was MnM because she never left home without them....)
Been here a year and have not seen hide nor hair of a polygraph test. Most employers these days have some sort of polygraph clause and it usually only comes into play in the event of something like theft or, in our case, in an accident (and usually reserved for the more serious ones that result in death / disability). I wouldn't worry about it. They don't poly you in orientation....but they do feed you some pretty decent BBQ RT
For all you students / noobs... GPS systems are great. I, myself, have a Garmin Nuvi. HOWEVER...... ALWAYS double check- 1) To make sure the routing on your GPS matches the routing the company gives you...at least for the most part. 2) That any routing advice you take from the GPS is not going to get you in a jam....check for low clearances and prohibited roads (found in the front of your trucker's atlas that I strongly encourage you to invest in...the big spiral bound kind...your atlas is NOT a place to cut costs and go cheap...seriously.) I and my former co-driver had a lovely little experience in Washington D.C. courtesy of my Garmin (sadistic little b*****d that it sometimes is..) wherein we got a tour of our nations capitol in a 70 foot, 13'6" high vehicle. Just so you don't have to learn the hard way....hanging a U-turn in front of the White House in a rig....makes local and federal law enforcement VERY twitchy. VERY, VERY twitchy. AND the 395 that is marked even in the trucker's atlas as a truck route.... NOT a truck route...it goes down into a 12' something tunnel. There *is* a 395Alt route BUT...it is the worst marked route in the history of mankind. A GPS is *not, not, not* a substitute for trip planning. RT
