My trucking adventure begins, started school today.

yea i have a misdemeanor on my record from 6 years ago and they are not excepting anyone with misdemeanors right now.

 

Well it was a good week, we worked on polishing our backing skills mostly, with some road driving earlier in the week. I got another good score on my written test this week as well. I have heard back from Willis Shaw they were doing my background check, said all looked good and they are just waiting on me too graduate. I have not heard from Howard thier recruiter is on vacation and will not be back untill monday. My instructor got a email from a couple he trained that are with KLLM and from what they said KLLM is pushing the lease very hard and giving lease drivers the best miles, i do not want to lease at this time so i think i will avoid that. I ha dsent a ap in to Trans Am but have not heard anything from them either. We may be finishing a week early according to the instructor he said we are doing very well. I know I am ready to get to work.

 

Well week 6 is finished, mostly we worked on polishing our backing skills, and we did some driving in heavy traffic. All going well so far. I do get a little frusterated with the other students because they think everything will go by the "book' and be perfect. they have done no real research into the industry at all. one of the statements i heard was "I am not going to worry about driving in traffic much because I will just stay on the freeways untii I reach my delivery." Another one was "you mean we have to worry about what our truck weigh i thought that was the loaders job?" When you try to tell them how it will really be you get the deer in the headlights look. Oh well they will get a severe reallity check soon enough i suppose. Any way I aced this weeks written test, and am doing real good in the trucks, 1 more full week of school then we test the following week. We had a Schnieder recruiter come in yesterday. If most of what he had to say is close to true it might not be to bad a place to get started. right now it looks like I will go with Willis Shaw though when i get out of school.