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Bear down and pass.

 

Your permit goes bye bye after a fixed amount of time. And the med card? that depends on how healthy you stay. Eventually there is no point in having a Med card without a CDL to attach it to. Literally.

You are not going to fail. Schools rarely fail people, but if they did... and you never got a CDL? Well... there is a option to try again later, you might have to get the permit all over again. People who fail basic truck schools really are BAD for one reason or another. Most people who apply themselves do not think about failing, it is more common to fight problems like backing, shifting, mountain hills or whatever.

Company sponsored training does not happen without a CDL and a DOT card and all the necessary papers that goes with that at hiring and orientation. No one gets into a 18 wheeler without at least the proper credentials.

This is not 1970 anymore. The industry has changed quite a bit.

 

You really need to spin that "what if I don't" attitude around, and take the bull by the horns, firstly. The rest will fall into place.

 

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If you can 'medicocre' back..... you'll probably pass. It takes a good 3 months up to a year to be proficient; ask around. Who are you planning on going with after school? I know you've bounced a few ideas on various threads, but don't recall the outcome.

 

@Mike2633 ...any answers to this??? ^^^ Your arena, bro.

 

Backing is following the trailer around once you put input enough steering wheel to make an angle to work with. Done right it's finished in 1 move like I usually do, but I did not commonly get into one move backs until about 20 years into my trucking. Even now I need about 15 minutes to play with someone's trailer in a dock and get that one move back again. Im rusty.

Being told what to do does not teach you anything when the instructor is yelling at you. You are trying to do too many things at once. Some of it will be discarded by your mind and not retained.

Even when you do get a CDL and get into your first trucking job, you might be confronted with a grocery warehouse built in 1920 and you have about a inch on both sides to clear everyone as you dock a trailer. In some cases your tractor is too long and a yard jockey will have to get it in there. Those are the worst situations as far as I am concerned. But they can be done if you have enough room to get a angle and get it in there.

I broke many a mirrior in my first year. Usually in the Dalles west virginia truckstop where the ground is uneven in that back row. I pay the driver his 25 dollars or so for a new mirrior in cash and move on to getting with backing. When I finally stopped handed out mirrior money sometime in my 3 or 4th year I had a idea I wa sgetting somewhat better at backing.

But backiing was not my opus. It's mountains. They put me on one and discovered I don't do heights. Then it's weeks of mountain work until they flipped it on me and turned me into a monster that loves mountains. The steeper the better.