Would LOVE to buy a GOURMET dinner in Phoenix for a HUGE favor...

It would not be safe for me to be in a truck by myself even with a permit... even if that is legal... I would NOT DO IT until an experienced driver felt it was safe I could be alone at the wheel, but... if you have any ideas I am pming you my info

 

You are correct. I had not thought of that at the time of the posting as I was thinking of my permit only and the situation... but it would be illegal because of logging...

sorry, I have MUCH to learn

 

Actually, Super B, a SWIFTY came through!!! last minute and as long as you don't leave SWIFT property and don't go over 5 mph you are "kind of OK" so we set coke bottles for cones and he let me park his truck and he had a trailer assigned, the evening before the skills tests and..........I had perfect.... PASSING SCORE....ha, ha... the instructor asked me if I wanted to know how many points I had and I said "can we negotiate?" He said "NO!" So, I said, then that's, O.K.!"
Thank you, though...
Of course right after the test, i started dropping the rig in the box and putting it in the lines like they were foot ball fields....
Monday the shifting, turning, city traffic... begins... we are going to be 4 or 5 to a truck we have to log 20 hours... so, Monday we go to the "racetrack" and we go around 40 mph up shifting and down shifting taking turns and Tuesday we do city traffic and Wednesday commentary as we drive Thursday evaluation of everything parking exercises if we pass Friday is CDL day...
It's been the greatest fun i had in a long time... If you are around pm me...

 

Me choke? GULP! My strategy is going to be to make believe I blew the test.... and then relax... it worked for the parallel...
But seriously, I seem to come together at the test... which is when it counts, maybe because the initial wrinkles give more experience... the guys that were in the same boat as I all passed the first time and two guys that were "smooth operators" freaked out when things did not go perfect in front of the man with the clip board..., but they passed later on... one guy just came apart and it was a real bummer -- he already had a cdl... from CRE... go figure.

That was a great posting wombat... they have not really told us to what extent to do commentary or what is expected... Howard went through it in general terms, but not in detail... thanks!!!

 

Second day was as rough as the first, I would get it if the #### instructor would shut up for 1/2 a second ... but he just goes on and on... but I know he means well... kind of worried about not having enough time...I got a plunger and a tennis ball for the gear shaft and with my flip flops I am making pedals tryig yo get the pattern down: brake - clutch -neutral - throtle = clutch = gear

the meal deal is on is on IN SPADES!!!!!! if there is a way to do it without braking any laws

 

I really have no right to be whining I want to make that CLEAR!

I wrote those postings before "de compressing" from the "experience" and the instructor I have is quite nice and I am very lucky to have him... I will wait before I post... I hope i did not give the wrong impression and I apologize...

Today was almost as "successful" as yesterday, which is a remarkable improvement... we shifted, we grind ed, we stalled, we laughed... well... not all of us at the same time in all occasions, but there you have it...

The great majority of people graduate with the same tools that are given to me and some suck just as much or worse and I had like three or four instances where I "felt the groove" and in a mere 6 hours of driving that means I am going to get it enough to become a mentor's concern in the near future... I'll buff the rims without being asked and Armoral the console to show appreciation...

In any case, thank you for reading and please take my venting with a grain of salt.