Question About CDL help Program

I was the same way when I first started out. For some reason whenever my instructors were standing over me with their clipboards scribbling notes I was always a nervous wreck. I missed simple steps, such as inspecting the seatbelt for wear, cuts, and tears, or the part about having extra play in your steering wheel. The only thing that you can practice is not being nervous in front of your instructors come crunch time. You can do it, so just go for it. Pretend that you're the instructor and your instructor is the student. Teach the "student" all that you know about conducting a proper vehicle inspection. Then, your nervousness may vanish naturally.

 

Very good advice.

 

Very well put fellas. Us noobies do have to stick together, because often times, veterans forget what it's like to be in our shoes. I feel stupid for saying this, but yeah, this is pretty much my last card that I have to play in these trying times as a peasant trying to earn my daily bread. Even worse, every trucker that I've talked to thinks that I'm wasting my time by going to school for just a Class B. I DO understand that there is more money to be made with a Class A, but is a Class A really worth all of the above to a struggling family man?

1. Class B CDL = 4 weeks $1300 vs. 8 weeks $3000
2. Over the road for AT LEAST 1 year
3. Extra money to burn, but no time to spend it
4. Home only on weekends IF you're lucky
5. ABSOLUTELY NO LIFE AT ALL

This may be suitable for those who have no responsibilies or obligations to tend to on a daily basis (wife, kids, etc.) but all I want to do is earn a halfway decent living doing something that I already do for a living, just in a much smaller truck, and for a lot less pay...A LOT LESS! Not to mention I work the graveyard shift for 12 grueling hours Monday night into Friday morning, which needless to say, I don't think I can handle going to school for 8 hours, and going directly to work and pulling an all nighter for 8 weeks, and successfully passing school. Bottom line, time and money are not on my side, but the bills are still coming in, so I've got to change my financial status if possible starting next year. NOOBIES UNITE!!!