My journey with PGT begins today

Well I made it to the "hotel" if you can call it that. It is a bit of a sh** hole, but I am not here for a vacation so it will serve its purpose. I have a roommate that has been driving for 18 years and signed up for their lease purchase program and has heard a ton of good things about PGT. I still have not talked to the recruiter about the ticket debacle, but I will address that tomorrow. I am ready to get this training started. I will post more tomorrow after I am done with my first day.

 

Yes I have been stationed there for 4 years. I have been tryint to find info on hauling army gear for a while now. I have a dod clearence and heard its good money.

 

Update: I just finished day 3 of orientation. It is a lot of PowerPoint slides and listening to different departments about safety and other stuff life that. There has been some info covering logs, securement, and tarping, but that has been shoved in between all the other people coming in. It has been a lot of info jammed into a short week. We are supposed to start getting our trainers assigned tomorrow and could be rolling out with them tomorrow night or Friday. We were told some will be going over the road and others will be running local with their trainer. I am hoping to get out with an OTR trainer so I can get a better feel for the road then just doing runs around here. They have kept us fed pretty good a couple local restaurants and last night they sent us to Applebees. I think I have made a good choice so far. All the drivers I have seen around the terminal seem pretty happy and the equipment seems to be pretty nice. I will update again soon.

 

I actually did bring my pt belt. I thought it would come In handy if I were out in the dark loading. They issued us a bunch of stuff though. They gave us a hard hat, gloves, rsflective vest, and a bunch of other stuff to start us off.