My Schneider National journey....

Thank's, good luck to you as well. I just drove down to Ontario, CA Best Western. Was about 440 miles and hardly any traffic. I am just sittin around not doing too much, waiting for my roommate to arrive. They put us up double occupancy but the BW is pretty nice. Shuttle leaves at 0520 to Fontana OC and we will have our PWS (pre work screen) the strength and fitness test and then lots of paper work I assume. Will let you know how it goes. I just hope I can fall asleep tonight. I am pretty wired.

 

Well today was an early day they just let us out. This is good because I had insomnia last night and only slept for 2 hours. I passed my PWS and the rest of the day was pretty much paperwork. Tons of paperwork. They had us do an open book test from the FMC book. And they gave us some reading and studying to do. So far the food at Fontana is pretty bad. Tomorrow should be more fun.

 

Oh man, I better lower my expectations haha

 

The meatloaf special hit me like a rock, but yeah it could be worse. I will try the cheesesteak today. So far so good been busy so haven't been updating. Basically Thursday, Friday and Saturday is small groups with instructors where you practice all driving skills, pre trip etc. they are helping you and evaluating to see if you can go out with a TE. I think today we will find out who our TE is and maybe get our Com card. We got our driver numbers yesterday which is cool. I have made $80 so far I'm rich! Let me know if you have more specific questions for those thinking about coming. Oh, don't freak out with the simulators, everyone seems to suck at first and they will throw all kinds of hazards at you. You won't be send home for a nasty jack knife or roll. It is way different then a real truck because you can't feel the truck and depth of vision is hard to tell for me at least. The teachers are all pretty cool here and they seem to want you to pass and they have pride so they will be hard on you but it is to help you since you have to learn fast. I think if you don't freak out and go with the flow most people will do fine. *cross fingers* okay, peace, pumpkin prison bus time.