New drivers arrogance

in comparison to college, and how much college graduates are making now 9500 bucks to go to school and be just about garunteed a job after is decent trade off. that being said no way in hell am i going there. when i'm ready to jump to OTR and get the A license im gonna go to roehl, its 2800 bucks, if you stay on for 120k then you dont have to pay anything back. from what i read roehl is a pretty decent company, not tons of miles but i dont need much. my girlfriend will be moving in when i do this and i'll just be taking care of the mortgage which is only 700 a month and i'm quite sure i will make at least that a month lol. whatever its for the experience, i want to find a good flatbed company to roll with, this place in tennesse starts out at 35 cents a mile. i got a good employment history so i think once i put some time in ill be good. blah blah blah i always get going on here.

 

O.K.,OMD,Sounds like you have a plan.,good for you.,there is,NO WAY,anyone can convince me.,paying.,-round it off,-$10,000- to LEARN how to drive a big truck.,is nothing short of (legal) ROBBERY...Pure B.S........................

 

Dangit driver! Ya almost described me to a tee! Except I'm 6' tall, drive a Jimmy, worth a few pennies at best, and have a family of all blue-collar types that'll just kick yer gluteuos maximus instead of sueing you. But I am better looking than Tom Cruise...these days, who isn't?

 

atsthewayiddoit ###### man get'r done LOL

 

It wasn't the number of questions you could get wrong it was the way they wrote the test. For example one of their questions went like this.

What load can you drop legally on the roadway?
A. Salt and/or Sand for ice prevention
B. Birdfeathers
C. Animal Feces
D. All of the above

Just about everyone answers D but that's wrong. The corect answer way back when was B birdfeathers. Answer A and C are not considered part of a load so it left only B which in reality if you think about it you couldn't control if you were hauling live chickens.

I don't know if anyone remembers that test but it was back in the 60's that I first heard about it. Then I heard they changed a little before the CDL came in and when I went to change my CDL all I had to do was pay them a fee. They were known by all the drivers that it wasn't easy and you had to study no matter how years you had driving.

 

Geeeze,

I can't remember what I had for dinner last night.

Good memory !!!!!

 

that wasnt on my test, i would of said salt/ice though.

 

yeah plus after you pay for gas/living arrangements while you're there it may as well be 10k. i'm right there with you brother. 10k is rediculous and i certainly wouldnt pay it, all i care about is getting the A when im ready for the cheapest/easiest way. school aint gonna teach me what i need to know, getting out there will.

 

######! All this time I've been dropping animal feces on the highways come to find out you're not supposed to!

Speaking to the thread title: I could be classified a new driver, though I got my license 7 years ago and drove a little back then. One of the reasons I'm glad I got out of it back then is because in retrospect, I was a "know it all". Now, I didn't shove it in everyone's face, berate others, and walk around with a proverbial stick up my ### over it. I was always respectful to other people, both casually and professionally.

What's different now is that I have learned in my ripe 31 years on the planet that everything, driving trucks included is a continual learning process for as long as you do it. I hope that I can always keep an open mind as far as that goes.

To drop a cliche that I try to live by:

The one thing I know for sure is that I don't know everything.