My Swift Academy Journey. Will it be a swifty one or not?

I actually had a toy tractor trailer back in my room at the academy. I got a piece of poster board and, scaling things properly, laid out the offset back and blind-side parallel boxes. Also used the candies called 'Dots' to be pretend cones and used my phone's camera to take pics of the different views I should see and when. It helped.
Also, I was kinda frustrated with the 'procedural' way the backings are taught and I had difficulties, until.... I talked with my instructor about letting me 'try it my way' once. He said go for it. I never ised the steps they teach for an offset back again. I backed up boat trailers for years and also marshalled small airplanes around at a general aviation airport for a couple of years. That entails a double-reverse steering approach. Anyway, although a 53' trailer is quite different than a boat trailer, backing into an offset box like I used to back boat trailers worked well for me. Sometimes they weren't 'pretty' and sometimes I had to pull up several times. But, never failed to get the trailer in the box without hitting a wall. Even backed it in frequently without a single 'get out' or pull up. Most importantly it made sense to me and I could work it.
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement. Thousands upon thousands of others have learned to be professional, safe, competent and skilled drivers. If they can, so can I! I just have to be willing to put the effort, patience and practice required to get there!!!

 

Well crap. Looks like I'm gonna have to get a new mentor. I don't wanna say what he did a bit ago, but, to me it crossed a line and he did something, as a driver, that I'm pretty sure is a big no no to do. We're at a truck stop and he is doing his 30. I've called my coordinator lady and left a message. I'll talk with her before I walk off in a puff, just to be sure I'm not being stupid about it. But, if worse comes to worse, I can rent a car from where we are to home easy enough.

Update: I didn't 'fire' my mentor. I was able to chill out a bit and talk with him about some of the things I'm frustrated about and ask why he was doing, or not doing things the way he was. I got answers that gave me understanding, although most of them I don't agree with. But, understanding makes things much easier to 'tolerate' if you don't agree with. As for the 'thing' that was over the line, it really was, but it was barely over the line in the way he did it. I plan on talking to him about it tomorrow, once I've had a break for the evening/night. AND, with that, I realized I really needed a smidgen of time away from him. We finished our load (A T-Call) and put myself in a hotel room for the night. Had a chance to talk with my driver manager about it and she even offered to reimburse my for the hotel room, which is awesome. Lastly, I think I need to sort of prearrange with him that about every 7 or 8 days or so, I should probably get a hotel room for a night. I think that can make things flow a lot smoother for the remaining 3 weeks we are togerther.
Also, at 6AM (local time) my 34 hour reset will be complete and I'll get ALL my hours back, I had less than 4 left on my 70 hour clock.

Thanks all for your continued support and encouragement. It truely is appreciated and helps!!!!