Would The Fall/Winter Be The Best Time To Obtain Your CDL?

I sorta had the same thought. That maybe having a trainer in the truck would be a good thing when the winter hits.... But I got to thinking, and here's what I concluded:

• Every month I'm not solo, I'm out $3000.00 ($2500 at least)
• To become a good driver, you've got to drive.
• I live in Michigan, and I drive my 4 wheeler in even the crappiest on conditions. I don't think there are any secrets to driving a big rig in the snow, other than whatever you do in a car, do more of it (and sooner) in a truck. (Drive more slowly, slow down sooner, drive more smoothly, stop driving sooner, be more patient, give more room, look further ahead... etc.) I'm sure there are braking techniques and do's and don'ts specific to trucks that come into play, but I think caution is 95% of the solution.
• With all the things I'll be worrying about in good weather as a new driver, if I can put off the crap weather for a while, I'll be better prepared when to deal with it when it arrives.
• Once I've been taught the basics of how to operate a big rig, all the responsibility of becoming a good driver is up to me. In MOST situations, if another more experienced trucker has done it, I should be able to do it. It will just take me longer, and with more attempts.
• It's my responsibility to be a safe driver, not my trainer's.
• All the experienced drivers on the road today, at one point drove through their first winter.

You're doing the same thing I catch myself doing, which is overthinking things. If you want to drive, then learn how to drive. EVERYTHING else will fall into place. Don't paralyze yourself by not doing something until you've thought of every little thing may go wrong. Go slow, don't hit stuff, GOAL, be smart and you will have a long career ahead of you. You'll gain the experience the long-timers around here have. Then you will be able to shake your head at the dumb things new drivers worry about just like G.Anthony.

 

Common Law Marriage.
You said you are in Texas right?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage



Anyway don't worry about it if you keep waiting it is always a better time tomorrow.

 

There is no commitment, get passed that crap, marriage is then bond that holds it all together. It gets tiring to hear this crap as a justification to avoid something that is obviously needed in life ...ok venting over with ...

That said, no one teaches experience. You need to drive to make money, sacrifices are needed in order for you to gain those experiences so .... Put it together.

 

you will have enough going on trying to learn the ropes in good weather, let alone inclement weather. Get it sooner than later, learn what you can before winter. Winter driving isn't rocket science... slow down and don't tailgate.

 

Marriage is a legal agreement between 2 people. Nothing more, nothing less, regardless of any religious importance. Commitment can be had without a legal document. But without a legal document, the legal advantages of marriage cannot (or are harder) to be taken advantage of.

Think marriage is mostly a religious commitment or ceremony? You'd be wrong. Atheist such as myself get married and divorced as easily as our religiously devoted friends, with a divorce rate of about 50%. In fact according to salon.com atheist marriages might last longer than believer's marriages.
My point being is that marriage is a legal commitment, more than anything else.
Salon article: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/atheist_marriages_may_last_longer_than_christian_ones_partner/

Don't pretend to know the OP simply by a few posts on this forum. Besides, he wasn't asking for moral advice. Just a simple question about learrning to drive in the winter.

 

Actually, it kinda is like that. One day you'll be cruinsing with the birdies flying around the lush green valleys and hitting deer's like a normal beautiful day and on the next day you're 700 miles past that and driving into a perfect storm of wind and snow making 30mph impossible and all of a sudden you remember that you left your insulated socks at home.

 

Well in my experience snow and ice only form when the temperature goes below 32f. And each day slowly gets colder as winter grinds on. Not like its a beautiful summer day and next day you wake up to a winter blizzard. Maybe in wy or co at high altitude, but it isn't the norm.

I guess it just takes balls of steel to drive in the winter ..how did they ever get anything done before now??

 

My days blur together, but i feel like there was a day early in the year where it was 70° and then, bam, i woke up and there was an inch of snow on the ground.

 

Yeah and I bet it melted by noon ...