OH Bound - April 15

Congrats on finishing up and getting your truck. I have about 7k miles in right now and I test for my CDL on Thursday. Looking forward to being out on my own.

 

This was an awesome thread. Thanks Rarudi for taking the time to post everything you went through. I am heading to Trenton for October 28th and I am excited. It only leaves me 2 weeks to get everything ready, but I am sure I can get it done. It was nice to see that other people are nervous and worry about the same things that have been swimming through my mind. I can't wait to start.

 

Good luck, you'll enjoy Bill pretty funny guy.

 

Thanks I am looking foreword to it. I have my class B CDL and drove dump truck and straight truck for years. I am not worried about shifting, just about the trailer and backing and missing the kids.

I used to live in Pine Grove up the ways a bit from Annville. Back when I played in bands I was friends with a guy named Bryan who lived in the old firehouse on the main street of Annville. He used to be in a band called Ballistic. Now the acoustic scene suits me just fine. I play out ever other weekend in an acoustic duo, it is going to be hard to give that up, but I really want to drive the "Big Rigs".

I am glad to hear you are still enjoying it, and I will check out that other thread.

Drive Safe!

 

I start at Millis Training Institute in Trenton on October 28th too Rock-n-Roll Trucker, I was curious if there was going to be anyone else starting that day.

 

Awesome Blinkd, hopefully I will see you there. I am getting a new DOT physical tomorrow and I am taking the permit tests Saturday. Hopefully all goes smooth and I can fax them to Alice on Monday, or she said I will have to wait until November to go to class. I didn't decide on Millis for sure until early this week and I figured I had 2 weeks to get everything together. Oh well, I work better under pressure anyway....haha

 

Well it was a marathon, but I got everything done in time to fax to Alice tomorrow. I got my new physical on Friday and I fought my way through DMV Hell on Saturday and got my CDL A Permit. Now just trying to get all my affairs in order and get enough cash scraped together to last me a few weeks while in training. I was accepted by several different trucking companies, and a lot of them would have been easier choices (no money down, cash advance while in school, transportation to the hotel). But I feel after the initial sacrifice of paying money in and not getting paid for a bit, my choice will pay off. I also think it weeds out the people who are serious about a trucking career, from the ones just looking for a free ride.

I am going to start a new thread with our new start date and post questions and concerns alone the way.

 

well rock-n-roll looks like i'm going to try to get in nov's class if I can get the TAA to get on the ball and get there paperwork done