Comments on: The First Week Of My CDL Training http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/celticwolf72/2009/04/the-first-week-of-my-cdl-training Helping Those Who Are Considering A Career In The Truck Driving Industry Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Rhonda http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/celticwolf72/2009/04/the-first-week-of-my-cdl-training/comment-page-1#comment-855 Rhonda Fri, 01 May 2009 00:54:34 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1386#comment-855 Very interesting. Yes the films/videos for all day would be very boring. Should have done a couple each day. And the logs are very important. Nice and neat gives the appearance of "everything is fine". Messy gives off alarm bells to the law enforcement as they are thinking out of hours and tired driver. Yet it seems silly to draw lines all day and the 4-wheelers do not get to do the same thing. Wonder if I will ever see the day that EVERYONE fills out a log. Yes, there is a lot to learn about shifting and driving a truck. You just can't put a person in a truck right off the street and say "get that trailer hooked up and go to______". So much to know and learn. And it all takes time. Everything you are learning will be needed for you to succeed in trucking. Very interesting. Yes the films/videos for all day would be very boring. Should have done a couple each day.

And the logs are very important. Nice and neat gives the appearance of “everything is fine”. Messy gives off alarm bells to the law enforcement as they are thinking out of hours and tired driver. Yet it seems silly to draw lines all day and the 4-wheelers do not get to do the same thing. Wonder if I will ever see the day that EVERYONE fills out a log.

Yes, there is a lot to learn about shifting and driving a truck. You just can’t put a person in a truck right off the street and say “get that trailer hooked up and go to______”. So much to know and learn. And it all takes time. Everything you are learning will be needed for you to succeed in trucking.

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