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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Newtrucker48, post: 2730226, member: 87123&quot;]Wednesday after my roommate left the hotel for his hometown, two new students were added to what became known as the Louisiana truck, because we all were from Louisiana. One of the students was another lady from class 1, my class, because she had to take a week off for hurting her knew using a harder clutch in one of the trucks than she was used to. She drove us out of the academy parking lot and down side roads, over bridges and through tight tight turns. We stopped at a truck stop to switch drivers and then started again. We were basically working on our up shifting and down shifting. The guy that took the seat started off real well. He really was doing a good job. But soon for some reason he started shifting and grinding the gears reall hard. Like real hard! He would go back and forth for 3 hours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next it was my turn. I up shifted really well. Downshifting not so well but I was getting the gist of it just needed to work on the 1000 rpm, neutral, revve to 1500 then place in lower gear. I needed to get the timing down. Nothing really happened the whole day except until after about break. After break the air leak came back and big time. It would not hold air pressure. We would get it to 125psi then it&#039;ll drop to 60 in like 45-1minutes time. So we pumped it to 100psi then it dropped to 90 psi and we drove it to Lancaster using the jake brake and service brakes very sparingly. We got to Lancaster and pretty much the whole day waited for them to replace a brake chamber. I actually heard driver talk our in the break/smoking area, good and bad. I understand why some don&#039;t go to terminals and mingle now.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the chamber was replaced we went to practice alley docking within the yard and then went to leave. The place where we drive out, my instructor gave the guy his number and was told he was on safety hold so we had to make a u turn and I hit a curb... Hoped that wouldn&#039;t happen during my road test! He went in after we turned around did his business and got the truck out of repair status and we left and by this time it was 630. So we got on the interstate and drove the hour back to Corsicana with no other incidents. Wednesday in the books![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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