The rookie

Also was told a dump truck wrecked this Wednesday on the Sbend. Right info front of the oc on 79 going N, you can see the tire marks in the median, he went between split of the bridge and land on the street below

 

So Friday they took everybody around the block for a quick drive to get everybody certified in the automatics. Im guessing the reason being is that they want you to drive them in the manual mode so making sure you got yours gears down should have made the transition easy just turned shifting into a flick of the wrist.. I still absolutely do not trust the hill assist.. that being said we had a class of 13 which was cut to 12 day one because of a hair sample graduate 11 students on time. The last is supposed to test Monday, all I can say is from my time in the automatic with him (about 20 mins of him at the wheel) in the bunk I feared for my life 3x...Glad that’s over with
now Saturday everybody got their full set of ppe (pickle suits) And travel plans for the next steps with Te’s and I already know some of them ain’t gonna last very long... we have to log our driving in the rental cars as on duty. So follow along with me I’m not a genius but class is 8.5 hours , 12 days straight. We start class at 0700 and was cut loose at 1330 - 1lunch an 15 min break plus time driving back to hotel
Pretty much to start the day we had 10.5 hours available before class. Also of note , check in isn’t until Sunday. Everybody in the class has pretty much a 6 to 7 hour drive. Yet we still had classmates planning to leave today and planing to go 200 miles out of the way to go home . And explaining it to them has me questioning how they passed the logging portion of the class ..
Moving on I’m going to the Gary Oc with 2 other classmates. This is probably the last time I will ever eat subway

 

Made it out to Gary and on the 2nd day with my Te. Very knowledgeable and good at teaching us our responsibilities and how to approach situations. For example today we had a delivery and it was a customer unload. Upon arrival the customer wasn’t happy about our time even though we were in the delivery window, bottom line was can only control what we can control and don’t speak on anything outside of your assignment. Lastly it was a customer unload and all we had to do was make sure their compressor was in the right right range and make sure they knew how to shut the valve.. that being said... they got it done but man the safety hazards they had, I was smh and I’m the rookie

 

Yea we were given a large window for the delivery time 1000-1400 to we arrived 1300 they said they were waiting for weeks for the load so my guess was their problems were above my pay grade. Had nothing to do with us

 

Your in good hands don’t be afraid to ask any questions you may have. The day we tested out was the day we had bad weather and long as you take your time there will be no issues .. did you practice in a manual or auto?