swift orientation

that is true, but the way you make it sound, is that a mentor will be instructed to dump a student off at the nearest scarecrow, which wont happen.

At least you're at a terminal and they'll let you seek shelter till a ride arrives.

atleast have a few bucks to pay for a bus ticket and taxi back home. Shold have a spare $100 just for such an event. But really, if you even THINK you're not good enough to keep in control of a truck after you've done your 42 days on road training, your schooling you've paid $4k for....i think its a bit too late to change your mind about truck driving. Little devil in the back of your head should have been telling you to not go down that road before you signed the student loan and started classes. Tells me you didnt do your research....(you meaning the perverbial 'you')

 

You get these guys pack all kinds of luggage, laptop, ipod, TV, whatever and they get put out of a truck. They have to find their own way home. Shelter? At a terminal? No, youre on your own. Travel light. You can accessorize when you get issued a truck.

 

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What alot of students dont realize is that they are moving into someones 'home'. Act the way you would if you were someones house guest. I've heard stories of students meeting the mentor at a rest area with everything including a crock pot....WITH FOOD COOKING IN IT....and the mentor tosses it out. You've got no NEED for anything but a weeks worth of clothes, pens, paper, logbook, sleeping bag & pillow and your toiletery bag. Bring an ipod and laptop at your peril. You might be allowed to keep it, you might not. Don't bring all sorts of text books you got from schooling, you should already know it. Don't bring maps and some 'tools', odds are your mentor has it already.

Pack heavy, then stuck trying to get all that crap hope on greyhound, and they want to charge you $50 per excess item?....i dont wanna hear you cryin'.

but like i said, you should know what you need to know by the time you hit orientation. if you dont, you deserve to get kicked to the curb.