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Make sure u bring a sleeping bag. The physical is standard. Eye and ear check, blood pressure, and wiz quiz.

 

Bring everything you need for 6 weeks on the road. I took a sleeping bag, 15 pairs of socks, 15 underoos, 6 pairs of shorts, 6 pairs of sweats, 12 t-shirts, jacket, gloves, ####showershave kit, prescription medications, laundry soap and dryer sheets. I changed socks and underoos every day, pants and shirt every 3 days (you're only sitting in a chair, no sweat or dirt) and my first week went off without a hitch. I know I know it was only a week but after the holidays we're staying out for 5 weeks straight.

If they don't pair you up right away just go home but be ready to go at a moments notice.

 

UNDEROOS?!?! rofl. please go to fontana having not drunk any alcohol in at least 24 hours, and not having taken any drugs for 90 days. last thing you need is to pop positive on pee test for either...THIS INCLUDES MANY LEGAL DRUGS.

 

When they find you a mentor ask about room in their truck for you're stuff as well, rember that the truck it's their home away from home........
Ooh and p.s. Don't take a suit case....... Common fopaa

 

First, don't over pack, terminals have washers and dryers as well as almost every trk stop. The medical I think is a joke. You walk in, they give you a medical questionare with every body system listed, then tell you to answer 'yes or no', if you have any issues or conditions/illness etc. If lets say all your truthful answers are no. So much the better, no one really questions anything that you put down. They take your word for it, lets just say.

Next you are taken and given a blood pressure test, a urine test, and they also check for sugar in it with a chem strip. Then a vision test, where you stand in a hall way and read off the eye chart.

Next your taken to a room to wait, then someone, either a M.D. or Physicans Assistant or maybe even a Nurse Practicioner will give you a cursory exam. Maybe check your liver, maybe not, maybe check your ruptures, turn your head and cough etc.

And if everything is ok.......Then you get your paperwork, all signed, sealed and delivered right into your waiting hands.

The drug test results usually take a couple of days, they notify the term itself, and not you.

I have seen it, in my past where on the 3 rd day of orientation, so and so is missing, people ask oh were did so and so go? Well, guess why?

I am not sure about this but.......

I do almost think, that they are asking and really checking to see if larger people have sleep apnea. Don't quote this as gospel, but they may require you to take a sleep test, maybe. just be aware if they dwell on your sleep patterns, don't give them a reason to make you take some other kind of test you may not actually need. hint hint......

The med exam is a blow off. Its a cattle mill, they run so many people thro those places each day and week, its just numbers and money to be made.

Don't sweat it.

But at the same time.

If your BP runs a little high, check it a walmarts or walgreens if you can. But do what ever you can to lower it back into a more normal range. Its really one of the corner stones or big markers that they look at, and use to evaluate you. Meaning, if your BP is just about normal, they'll just ask you about your health, then its goodbye, see you in 2 yrs. But if your BP is high. Its a big red flag, a restricted medical card in some cases, or you needing to go and get some BP meds from your own MD to lower it. etc.

well I hope this helps, the med exam really is no big deal. Believe me its not. Don't sweat it.

 

P.S.

You may want to read the other topic in the Swift Forum titled, "Sleep test, whats it all about."

just fyi, because of what you stated your height and weight to be, this may pertain to you as well.

 

Just lay off the simple carbs and sugar, drink water, black coffee, and eat plain old meat/eggs you will lose the weight and cure the body of most problems. You might feel tired for a few days but the body will transition to use your body fat for energy.