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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Six9GS, post: 9496015, member: 102286&quot;]Update: I&#039;m back in Phoenix, where I&#039;ve been for a couple of days. My Mentor needed some home-time and we got here on Friday morning. It gave me a chance to run some important errands, to include getting my real license, not the temporary paper one. Also had a chance to repack and leave some stuff I didn&#039;t reall need and grab a few things I&#039;ve found I probably do. I expected we&#039;d get back on the road today, but I guess we weren&#039;t able to get a load, or my mentor decided to extend aother home-time day. Either way, I&#039;m now here in a hotel for the night. Chance to watch some football!!! I am anxious to get back on the road.</p><p>My mentor doesn&#039;t keep snow chains on his truck, he doesn&#039;t want to run in any snow. So, I do know while I am training under him, I&#039;ll be staying South, probably won&#039;t go above I-40 is my guess. But, I&#039;ll take it. I wouldn&#039;t mind avoiding the North and winter driving during this first winter for me. But, I&#039;ll just take it as it comes and figure it out from there. I have lived in Northern Climates for numerous years, so winter driving stuff isn&#039;t entirely foreign to me, but naturally, never in a tractor/trailer.</p><p>So far two observations regarding differences between a regular 4 wheeler and a rig that I wasn&#039;t aware of. 1. You have to look much farther down the road at conditions than with a 4 wheeler. I already look pretty far ahead, compared to most, drivers. But, learning I still have to extend that even further than I have before. 2. HILLS!!!!! In a 4 wheeler, you set the cruise and forget about it. Not so in a rig. GOTTA watch the downhill speed and be aware of it all and manage spped with load with the specific road condition (grade, weather conditions, traffic, etc.). No cruise control to help with that.</p><p>I know you guys already know these things, just letting you know what I&#039;m finding out.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, waiting to get back on the road, hoping to get some more miles behind the wheel soon!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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