Just a big THANKS

I just wanted to take the time and say thanks to Mr. Warran & Mr Bentley I thought I learned more from you tow then I did over the last few years and just wanted to say very gratefuland to all the other students you all be safe. I don't know about the rest of you guys but I made alot of good friends at TTC@N that I know the roads will be more pleasent all be safe and will see you out there .

CFI Boot Camp

I am spending what is referred to here as boot camp. When you get to CFI/Con-Way (Joplin, MO) you will spend the first Monday at orientation at their headquarters. It is very impressive and intimidating. You get picked up at the bus station and taken to a hotel where you will stay two to a room. They pick you up Monday morning for your day at orientation. After a very busy day of filling out forms and signing you name you are taken to a different hotel at Neosho, MO near Crowder College where you will stay till the next Monday Morning. You get picked up at 0700 each morning on a bus and taken to the College that is only 5 minutes away except on Thursday they pick you up in trucks at 0330 at the hotel for a night drive down town Neosho on very sharp turns and country and interstate roads. You will be doing everything that you have already done at TTC@Nashville but at a full fast paced 10 hour days. You are expected to already know the basics so learn as much as you can but at the same time you will be with people that have gone to schools that aren’t as good as what you have. But the more you learn the less imitating this will be. We drive 15 speeds KenWorth T2000’s. Nice trucks all furnished by CFI. You will be driving T2000 or the T600 at CFI so you are being trained in the same truck that you will be driving for CFI. Crowder has a skid pad that was build at a cost of 1.3 million that we get to use to practice doing skid recoveries. Other drivers from police forces excreta also pay to use this for training (getting to play at tax payers’ expense). It is a training tool that you won’t get most places. They really take care of you here and you get invaluable training. After a week of boot camp you are taken back to Head Quarters where you meet your trainer for a 7500 mile training period. This takes about three weeks and you do all the driving. Then you get your own truck. They keep their trucks for 500,000 miles and then you get a new truck. They don’t go by seniority so you either will get a new truck or one that isn’t very old. If you get a truck that has 300 or 400,000 miles on it you will be getting a new one when it reaches the 500,000 mile mark. It takes about 4 years to get the 500,000 miles. The trucks have bunk heaters in them. This is a first class company but can be difficult to get accepted.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

My Last Day at Home

I leave this afternoon for my bus ride. (17 Hours to Joplin, Missouri) I feel like I am heading to boot camp. Anxious is an understatement of how I feel.

My Trucking Blog

Thursday, April 24, 2008

I want to invite all the students (Present, Past, And Future) of TTC@Nashville to view my blog and feel free to contact me or add comments. I had started this blog more than a year ago when I had first considered doing professional truck driving. I will keep it as current as possible through my training, orientation, my experience with a trainer, and my over the road experiences. I hope to provide an insight into what it has taken for me to get here and in some way maybe it can help you. At the very least I hope you enjoy it.

http://mytruckingbog.blogspot.com/

I am Going to CFI/Conway

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

I am Going to CFI/Conway

I have been accepted by CFI/Conway and will be in Joplin, Missouri on Sunday to start Monday’s orientation. I am proud to have been accepted by them. It has been my goal to work for them since I had started this process.

We Finished

Be afraid there are new drivers out there when in doubt everybody clutch go to nutral clutch go to gear good for truck driving good for life everybody be safe and will see you on the road be safe

Out Tests are Finished

I get ny CDL Monday

I would like to add that I really appreciate Rabbi and all his efforts in seeing that we have the skills that we need to become professional drivers. I would like to have had more time driving and less time spent in the class room. Being on separate campuses for the classroom and the driving I am sure has been a disadvantage for the class. I do feel that he gets the class room work done very efficiently and with an open and relaxed discussion. His teaching methods are very effective. Thank you.