USA Truck Driver Newbies, this post is for guys who are wondering what usa like

Yep, been called East Coast Joe and The I95 kid myself.

 

Lol I like "The I-95 Kid" I picture a suit and a six gun on your hip. Wearing a fedora with a toothpick in your mouth.

Hell I think I'm delusional. Been awake to long now

 

The only good thing about running the east is that you dnt gotta deal with the huge mountains and chain laws that go with them in the winter time. The downside is that all of the truck stops are smaller and more congested and you gotta pay to park in the north east. I am headed to orientation next week for usa, hate the east coast eventhough I live there but happy to get rolling again though. Just praying I get a decent truck. Was hoping I would have my hazmat endorsement by end of this week but looks like the idiots are gonna take over 30 days for my background check, been three weeks now. Wish they would have let me transfer my hazmat when I moved from tx to wv.

 

Your Hazmat shouldn't be a problem, Are you saying WV doesn't recognize your endorsement because you received it in another state? I looked at taking a tanker job there last year and my Hazmat from Fl. presented no problem. I don't follow what you're saying regarding the Hazmat endorsement.

 

Any new people go to orientation recently?

Where did you go?

What was the physical / Drug screen like?

How long did it last?

How do you like it so far?

 

I didn't have my tsa letter with me, it got lost somewhere so they said I had to drop hazmat endorsement. I shoild have my new tsa letter by end if this week or next week. Ill just get my hazmat added when they send me through my house for my first hometime.

 

Any new people go to orientation recently?

Where did you go?

What was the physical / Drug screen like?

How long did it last?

How do you like it so far?

 

So the endorsement isn't on your Texas license?

 

I just re went thru orientation again in Vandalia. That's where I went last time I worked here also. Normal physical. Like any doctor. 2.5 days.

 

The endorsement was on my tx license 900,000. Wv wouldn't let me transfer the hazmat endorsement without the tsa letter.