Comments By no chin

Ok well tomorrow morning i start CDL school at ATI in Virginia Beach. The school is 240 hours and takes two months. The first month is basically just studying for the permit tests and i believe some pretrip. The VA is paying for the school as the school is expensive compared to what is available in the area for CDL schooling but from what i have heard they are the best in the area. I will be doing a training diary while i am there but will play it by ear on how often i post by how eventful the day is.

Congrats!! would say i would be joining u soon but i got my prehire from TMC and will be going with them over melton but ill see ya on the roads lol

No Chin, Dude that sucks. I found in the last ten years of my service that people just dont want to do thier jobs at all. They work harder at getting out of work than just doing thier job in the first place. One thing you can do is call your congressman. You should not have to suffer for the stupidity of others. He/she will have a local office in town. Call or stop by. Tell them exactly what is going on. Its amazing what they can do with a simple phone call. Dont be shy tell them you are now in finacial straights because of an error on someone elses part. Good luck brother!

thats what Brad my TMC recruiter told me to do yesterday when he called to give me the good news. i think i will give them till the 15th of august and then ill call. meanwhile my fiencee's boss is giving us a loan to help us get through till the end of sept and im paying him back with my separation money. so at least now we can get by. but yeah it took GTMO 3 months to send me home when by Navy Instruction they have two weeks. So norfolk PSD aint the only ones at fault here with this. my fiencee says this may just be a blessing in disguise becuase she has been wanting to leave hampton roads as much as i have and the only reason i agreed to stay was her new job but now she has decided to leave it at the end of September and she will start getting her CNA certification in Henderson NC when we move.

Well one bit of good news just got my pre hire letter for TMC so looks like i will be going with TMC!!

Lol ty more like Poop creek with the paddle just out of reach lol

Ok so those of you that know me you know i got out of the navy on july 1st. the navy said it would be 30 days before i would get my separation pay. well some desk jocky got lazy and didnt submit my paperwork within 20 days of my separation and now they have to do a full audit on my service before i can get my separation pay witch is 8000 after taxes. the audit will take about 90 days. now me and my fiencee are completly screwed with finances because i wont get BAH for my schooling untill september even though my school starts next monday the 4th. so we still dont know how we will get through august but sept shouldnt be a problem. but now we dont have 2000 dollars to get a new apt here in norfolk and we cant stay in our current apt. so we will prob be leaving hampton roads at the end of sept for somwhere in central virginia or north carolina. im not worried about after september cuz of the money i will be making in trucking will sustain us but these next too months are going to be prob the hardest months ive seen both personally and financially since my ex wife left me 5 years ago. BTW for those that dont know me or my former post i am going to ATI in Va Beach and attending their CDL course that is 2 months long and 240 hours. I am also awaiting final word from TMC and Melton and will go with TMC over melton.

Im going to TMC at the end of sept. why were those particular people booted out?

Either radio will work but just don't through it in a truck and go. Make sure you take it to a cb shop and have it peaked and tuned and for God sakes have the swr's set which matches the antenna to the truck. To high of an swr and it can blow the finals in your radio then it's just a paper weight which would cost almost as much to fix the radio as it would to just get a new one.

My taste in radios runs more towards the export/ham radio side which is quite a bit more expensive than what you can buy in a truck stop. They are ham radios that have been converted from 10 meter to 11 meter so they can talk on the 27 mhz band with all the normal cb's but keep their high powered output of power. The cobra 25 and 29 will get about 30 watts of power which is more than enough if your using it for just normal communications. I run a Galaxy 94 that does 130 watts. I like to be heard when I talk on the radio. And I like to talk long distance. Which are two totally separate things.

does that galaxy come converted or did u have to get someone to do it for u?

Daniel prime is one of the companies i'm looking at trying to get with after school....maybe you'll do me a favor and train me

I'm particularly interested in how well you understand the mechanics behind fuel efficiency, and i want a trainer that is A+++ since i want to stay in this business for the long run.

daniel no longer trains.

Just about to say the same thing lol. attending ATI and i had to get both before i went to school because the school required it.