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Message:: [QUOTE="RoadSideDown, post: 11665736, member: 314577"]DAY 20 / END OF CDL TRAINING The last couple of days were a wind down. Just keeping skills fresh. We did some extra activities like a maneuver rodeo with single pup, double set, 48 footer, and pup towing a dolly. Today we learned a bit about throwing chains. Mainly that it will suck big time doing three rail chains in the blowing snow! In Oregon we have to three rail our drives, and a single chain on one side of each dolly and trailer axle. Our two students who went to Kansas to test both passed and now have their license. Three of us test on Monday and two more the next Monday. Our instructors have walked us through the logistics for test day. I am glad it works out I can stop by the terminal in the morning and do some refresher drives and backing then head over to the examiner site. I need a few shifts in a truck to get my shifts smoothed. So far it seems the biggest challenges for those testing have been nerves and getting tunnel vision on the immediate traffic and losing awareness of the wider scene and signs and such. Felt bad for one of the students who worked so hard doing parallel parking and then it wasn’t chosen for them! At least they passed anyway. This weekend is going to be about catching up on my sleep, and review the pretrip and road driving requirements. My next post will be Monday afternoon. Pass, or fail and try again.[/QUOTE]