Starting my career at Millis

Glad to hear things are going so well for you. Sounds like your in week 3. I head out on Monday and if going through cartersville i'll make a point to stop by. In one of your earlier posts you talked about awareness and its very important not to let down your guard as you mentioned. I was 1.5 miles from house Wed. after 8 weeks out and I make a left hand turn with a car at the stop sign. well... as I get the tractor in the lane I look into the driver mirror and Slam on the Brakes! The woman had started forward after my tractor made the turn and I stopped the tandems about a foot from her bumper. hopefully she learned a lesson but I'm sure there are a thousand others like her. ps. she can move fast in reverse once she finds the gear! lol! Needless to say, I felt fortunate afterwards thinking how that would have ruined my day.

 

four??? just kidding i know with my previous experience that you have good days and bad days when it comes to backing regardless how much experience you have...

 

Hello Everyone... been alittle while since i'v been on here...well looks like your having quite an adventure there Dark Knights.... I went thru the school in Cartersville about 7 months ago or so.... Tell Greg that Terry Whitener says hello. Alot of your shifting and such will come more natural to you when your out with your trainer. I grew up in the trucking industry and been driving trucks since i was 5 years old... but even i still needed help on my shifting and such. but after about the end of your first week with your trainer... you'll be hitting all them gears just right. I passed the trainer truck acouple times this past week while i was in the cartersville area... was on my way to Dalton to pickup my load going to Plano, IL. I'm due for hometime this coming up weekend and i have to drop the truck off in Cartersville to have some work done to it so if anyone is there when i stop in i'll say hello. Im in truck # 6062. Feel free to say hello if you see me around

 

Hey Dark-Knight, did you lose anyone in the storm yesterday?
I was driving into Canton when the wind driven rain hit, couldn't see anything for a bit.

 

In cartersville for night until about 9:15 am. Ifany u guys around be sure and say hi. Truck 7056 .
Also will be strapping a beer load in am if any students want to see how I do it. Only going 32 mi but things can happen at the first intersection.

 

Kinda disappointed to hear not only do I have to get my own bus ticket there (Got it, cost $140) but I have to pay back the cost of the Motel too. In order to get the $2000 school cost plus $1440 Motel cost ($60 a day for 24 days, plus tax I'm sure) paid back in a year I'll have to have the minimum of $66 a week deduction and that's the total divided by 52 weeks. ( I plan on having home time in there to so $66 at 52 weeks are arbitrary numbers) They said it's a $30 deduction,($20 for the school and $10 for the motel) but $30 won't cover it all in 12 months. I guess I should had asked more questions! I know all company programs are different but unfortunately for me I was assuming (never a good idea) that the bus ride and motel was included in the $5000 training cost. By my figures the total cost isn't the $5000 or so that I thought it was. It's now $6580 minus $2500 for staying employed for 1 year = $4080 out of pocket cost or, $6580 if you don't make it a year or if they don't hire you...Kinda makes me feel very very nervous!!! Anyone else come across this situation? I've read and read and read again about Millis, never seen this situation before. I failed to mention that the motel is charging the same rate for sharing a room as they do for a single person in a room now. This is evidently a new deal. Never the less I'm still looking forward to going to Millis and getting to work, and praying to God that I get hired! I still think all in all they sound like a good company. I'm seriously thinking of using part if not all of the $500 week training pay to get the payroll deduction part mostly payed off!!! I know I'll still have the 1 year contract to uphold, but man I don't want all of the payroll deduction stuff going on. What do you guys think?