Should I bring my laptop with me to training?

I would leave it at home until you are settled. I know it could be boring for a bit, but better than losing or damaging it.

Bring what you absolutely need.

 

I brought mine along with me during training and I also recommend Streets & Trips as well, as it is available whether you have an Internet connection or not. Moreover, Streets & Trips and Google Earth together are both wonderful tools, because you can pushpin the driver entranceways to the shippers and receivers in Google Earth, access the pushpin properties, and then copy and paste the pushpin coordinates directly into Streets & Trips to make Streets & Trips give you turn-by-turn directions directly into your shipper and receiver entrancways. It doesn't get any better, less stressful, or easier than that.

 

Bring it...

 

Bring it, they dont take up much room.

 

disconnect for a bit and leave it at the house.soak in your new surroundings using your senses and perhaps aquire an unspecified amount of experience to utilize later.difficult to do while engrossed in a little(or a multitude of) laptopping.novel idea but you can sleep as opposed to keyboarding.

besides,i am almost positive that you have a smartphone to eliminate being incommunicado and i know that prime trucks have all the technology you'll ever need equipped in those trucks,so much so that i am betting that you'll tire of it.

use a paper atlas to get around.i am about to update/replace my 2010 rand mcnally road atlas with it's torn pages and highlighted cities & towns that i can give you.i have a 2012 that i am just now putting to use.NO it is not laminated-

 

Yeah take it with you and keep it on u at all times till u get ure own truck

 

Bring anything you can fit in your bunk or the one probable cubby hole you are going to be allowed to use with your trainer. Remember that you are going to be a guest in his "house". Think of it like you were visiting your wife's family on thanksgiving. You wouldn't put groceries in their refrigerator because you know her brother would eat them. You wouldn't throw your suitcase on her parents bed, because they would throw it out on the street. You wouldn't throw all your toiletries in their medicine cabinet because they would probably toss what they don't use and bogart what they do use. You wouldnt unplug the chargers to their phone, computer, or fridge so you can charge your computer to get on facebook, or they would probably take a kershaw pocket knife and cut the power cord, or worse, accidently spill a beverage over the keyboard to make a point. Finally, you wouldn't hang your dirty drawers where they eat and sleep, because they would take you for a ride and drop you off at the bus station expecting you to find your own way back.

Trainers and mentors are like your in-laws. Sure, they love you like a son. Just don't eat their groceries, mix your grooming products with theirs, unplug any of their gadgets, and leave your dirty drawers in the same spot that they are making themselves a sandwich or taking a nap. The only problem you will be solving is figuring out who gets the window seat on the grey dog, you, or the recently paroled cat who will talk your ear off for the 28 hour bus ride home.

 

Bring your 50" HD TV too.

 

And your leaf blower...