New soon to be swift trainee!

also I totally agree about keeping MVR clean. I make sure I protect it and my CDL at all costs with how I drive. It's my gold treasure.

 

right it's about setup. I don't know how long he has been training but I was just telling student not to ever blindside if he could help it. He said he could do it. I reiterated never to do a blindside if he could help it. The above video shows why.

Good luck with your training! Become a sponge and learn all that you can. If the trainer is telling you anything its for a reason. Even if it doesn't make sense to you right now.

 

Day 3 started early this morning. We stayed up a little bit later than we should have. Of course my body was used to it but student drove for about 2 hours before he told me he was tired. We pulled over at a truck stop and slept for two hours. When we planned the trip we knew we would have to start driving during the night. I prefer driving at night, I told him this and I'm glad he got to get the little bit of experience of what night driving feels like. Informed him that we may be driving more through the night and the key is sleep. Will be making sure he gets sleep from here on. Hope he sees the importance of sleep in prepping for night driving. 300 miles to go to fuel stop.

 

Day 3 has ended. Student is caught up on his drive hours he should have by day 3 and did really well on his up and down shifting. Working on signaling when merging and changing lanes. He gets too focused on one thing sometimes, so I have to remind him to signal. But overall he is becoming a good, safe driver. I can tell he wants it. I can work with that. Tomorrow starts early again but he is already asleep. I can tell he learned the lesson of prepping for night time driving. Tomorrow we deliver in Indiana.

 

Day 4 began early this morning. Student got a good night's rest and was able to drive through the night. Just got done taking our 30 minute break in Illinois and are 3 hours away from our drop in Indiana.

 

Day 4 has ended. Student made it through the night but was exhausted afterwards. Understandable, his body isn't use to driving the miles he drove today. Glad he got to experience what's it like to have a delivery set for the same day that he needed to drive alot of miles. Great conditioning for him. He also got to drive in the rain that hit Indiana earlier today. He has good truck control for someone on his 4th day.

When we made it to final he set up perfectly and backed into the slot without much input from me. His down shifting is better as well. After we delivered the load we stopped at a walmart to stock up. Now it's time to get some rest so that we can be ready for another early morning.

 

Day 5 started earlier today. Had a longer break than I thought we would have had but it was ok. We were stacked with two loads one that was a quick load around Indiana and the next one which we are currently about to head to for pickup goes to Mississippi.

Student is finally getting setup thought pattern down. He just saw the importance of proper setup in action. Lined up and backed in the hole in no time at all. Hope he can retain the setup for future backs.