Week One at Central Ref...(woman's perspective)

Technically DOT allows you to have pets. Central does not unless you worked for them and had a pet prior to 2006. Its a safety issue. I guess they had problems with preventable accidents that were possibly cause by pets. Tony, the head of the school, told me that they had a company driver that actually cut out holes in the seats of the bunk and let his dog AND cat just go under there and do their business. He didn't even have a litter box for the cat and he rarely cleaned it out apparently. So they did away with their pet policy.

One of the other things is that some animals get scared riding in the truck because of all the noises so if they didn't grow up in that environment, they could get scared of something and could potentially run up under your legs trying to find comfort which could hinder your driving.

Hope this helps!

 

Yeah...my background is in Carpentry/Welding. I don't have any issues with having a male trainer. I actually get along much better with guys then I do with girls. I have always had only a couple girlfriends and bunches of guy friends. I'm not worried about it. But thanks for the advice!

 

Day14 (Sunday): Today was our second day off. We had to work on our Fictional Trip plan that takes us from Averill Park, NY to San Diego, CA. It was actually a bit of a challenge to get it all work out without a 34 hour reset, but we pulled it off. We ended on the 8th day with 69.5 hours worked. So we get to take our 34 hour reset in San Diego! I'm totally fine with that, trust me Lol! I would have loved to take this 3,300+ mile run.

Anyway, tomorrow we start orientation. No more hot-### afternoons on the asphalt driving range for this girl! We're apparently gonna start working on learning the QualComm and watch some videos. But the rumor is that we only have to be there for half days now instead of the dreaded 9.5 hours, so that's pretty awesome.

I'll be sure to let y'all know how orientation goes and what its all about.

Be safe out there!