newbie introduction.

hello everyone

ive been reading this board for about a month now. i've been interested in driving trucks awhile and i was definitely going for company paid training just because i didn't want to immediately pay out of pocket but the company contracts were not really wooing me either. anyway i finally just paid for it myself. tomorrow i start my second week of school. which is basically learning the 6 manuevers and the final week is on the road training. i go to georgia driving academy by the way. im 21. female. decent driving records. i've already got prehires for usatrucks, ffe, and crst. us xpress is my top choice but for all the wrong reasons. it's just because i've never driving a manual and they have all auto-shifts but they seem to have some terrible reviews. anyway i think i'm just nervous and hoping that i get the concept of how to drive a manual over the next 2 weeks. the good thing is right now we take our cdl road test in automatics tho. but that's about to change soon. maybe in 3 weeks. but any info anyone wants to add would be helpful. im interested in roehl as well. im really interested in the over the road buy maybe not all 48 states. i don't have kids or a family to get home with often. but i need to get used to being on the road all the time. so im thinking southeast regional. i actually think werner #### near pays my schools light bills or something. because we pratice on a werner truck. and everything around the place says "werner". they send a lot of students there i know. one of the students who graduated from the school i attend got on a werner dedicated with homedepot and ran m-f. does anyone have any ideas how many miles this could be a week? anyway.. hello and nice to join the boards finally. i have a million and five questions but i'll hold majority of them right now.

 

wow! THANKS for all the info. im definitely interested in her info if she says ok. facebook is definitely my life anyway..

i am definitely the only female in my class but i don't mind it at all. i fit in well. except when it came to reading aloud. lol. i always had to read to everyone like the entire book.
i have no idea how many post i have to make in order to receive pms. but eventually i will get there so i'll email you.

um unloading is definitely not a interest area of mine. neither is flatbedding.

pam has automatics as well but you have to be 22. and i want be until the end of august. and i need incpme like 3 months ago.

for the record to whom it may concern, no im just getting into the industry for the money. i dropped my college life in 08. to pursue trucking. but felt discouraged for many reasons. but when the opportunity has arisen so im back on it and have definitely started to pursue.

i've been reading other threads about automatics. i feel like using automatics will definitely make the number of applicants they have hirer because the job appears easier. so student grads like myself will choose those companies first because it "appears" there are smaller number of mistakes. but it just means they can get paid less and trained quicker. but im not really interested in not being valuable because i only know how to really drive an automatic. so i really plan to apply myself in figuring out this 10/13 speed trucks.

that is definitely a thought i've been seeing as well about the bigger companies. i interested in doing the traveling. my game plan is do otr for about a year or 2. just to get the experience to have more doors open for me. and then try something more local and buy a home and things of that nature. most importantly is paying what i currently owe now and saving.