Comments By R0adRa93

This is what it was supposed to be:

http://www.r0adra93.com/index.php/2015/12/11/considerations/

Look at the table... This is the data I collected from the companies. I am leaning towards comcar, roehl or us xpress I am not sure which to go with I am quite confused...

It was supposed to be a flipping table i'm working on fixing it by offering a link... This textbox doesn't like TABLE tags :)

I am considering the following companies:

CompanyHome TimeSlip SeatingEquipmentAPUInverterRangeTCPMCPMPaysacle Pet Riders ContractTrainer Training Pay HotelBusTrainingOrientation ComCar6 daysNo< 5YesYesOTR0.32By the Mile - Practicle NO $13.00 NoneYes $500.00 Yes Yes 4 weeks7 days Roehl3 daysNo< 4YesYesOTR0.35By the Mile - Practicle $15.00 Yes - 75,000 MilesYes $600.00 YesYes2 weeks8 days US Xpress1 WeekTEAM< 2NoYesOTR0.82By the Mile - Practicle $500.00 $26.00 NoneYes $450.00 YesNo4 weeks3 days Knight3 daysNo< 3NoNoOTR0.38By the Mile - Practicle $400.00 $20.00 NoneYes $400.00 YesYes6 weeks4 days

Any thoughts or opinions?

I am considering comcar... Did I ask all the right questions?

I did it! I have finally graduated from Mike's School of Trucking and now hold a VALID Class A CDL with H N P S T endorsements. :)

Thank you to all of you for your advise and assistance.

Thank you to the folks behind truckingtruth.com for creating and maintaining the highroad program which helped me pass the written tests.

:-D

Now, to choose from a pile of companies that are interested in me! :)

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I tested again this past friday. Suffice to say I failed AGAIN. I am growing quite discouraged. I have one last chance then I have to find another way to take my road test.

I did migrate my hazmat and tanker endorsements onto my Class B license so that I am prepared for the worst case scenario which would be to drive the large straight trucks over the road. I would much rather drive the tractor trailers though. I gotta do everything in my power to pass next time.

This time with the alley dock I thoguth Iw as totally lined up and I was lined up to the wrong cones. See, the truck has to go all the way through the cones and be straight and get into the box in the back.

In this diagram you will see how there is a curb (the equal signs) and the cones the Pipes "|". I missed the front cones and aimed towards the cones into the alley instead. I felt like a flipping idiot when I realized where I messed up.

I was so afraid of hitting the curb (as I hit it last time) I was too close to the cones this time around. What's funny is if I didn't realize I screwed up the alley dock i would of had the trailer in with no problem AGAIN. *sigh*.

Last time I kept hitting that further curb... My trailer was going in it was all perfect and I kept hitting that curb. This time, I was too close to the cones and couldn't make it in.

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I'll be sure to add earplugs thanks! :)

I failed today. I was confident felt like I had it and then I screwed up the alley dock. How the frak did I screw something like that up?! Again, my instructor was ****ed at me. It isn't like I screw this **** up on purpose. *sigh*

Anyway, I scored perfectly on the pretrip, I didn't miss a thing. I was quite pleased with myself. Straight line was perfect, offset was perfect. It's just I screwed up the alley dock. *sigh*

I'm looking forward to the elogs myself...

The past few days have been pretty much the same. I am having no problems with yard skills, pre trip and driving. I am feeling extremely confident with the road test on Thursday. I feel I'll be walking away with a sticker on my permit allowing me to turn it into a Class A CDL. 13 weeks and counting at school, I'm quite thrilled about graduating.

My time at school has been cut to half days so I have been spending the extra time tying up loose ends. I spent extra time with my fiance and our two little girls. I downsized from 2 10x10 storage units to 1 10x10 storage unit. I have been knocking off items on a shopping list to pack for the road. I have a duffel bag that is getting filled with items needed for OTR. Once school is complete, I'll migrate all my crap from my briefcase to my laptop bag so all i will have with me is a laptop backpack and a duffel bag.

I have to order an atlas and I am considering this one: http://amzn.to/1LP8uSc

If you have a suggestion to something else please let me know.

Congrats! I too went with a private school. I was laid off from my last job and I took advantage of the One Stop program so my tuition was covered by the state. Anyway, I am looking forward to the test. Did they test you like the following:

Step 1: In Cab, Air Brakes & tug tests Step 2: Pretrip Coupling Step 3: Pretrip on 1 of 3 sections of the combo vehicle Step 4: Straight line back Step 5: Off set to the right OR left Step 6: Parallel park left, parallel park right OR 90 degree alley dock Step 7: 15 mile road test.

It's that way in NJ, I made it all the way to step 7 and I failed for stalling 20+ times. *sigh*

This past July NJ changed the test from what it used to be:

Step 1: Pre trip exterior of combination vehicle Step 2: In cab Pre Trip Strp 3: Air Brakes & Tug Test Step 4: drive 1/4 mile to the yard skills area Step 5: Straight line back Step 6: 45 degree alley dock Step 7: measured right turn Step 8: drive 1/4 mile back to DMV test area.

Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it! I missed the log book section a few weeks back and the school invited me in to attend the log book class. I jumped at the chance and attended today. I am glad I did as there is a lot to those paper logs. If you aren't paying attention you could end up either overworking or missing a 34 hour reset and having all sorts of screwed up hours. We spent about 4 hours in total maintaining a fake log book and going on imaginary runs for about two weeks. Every day the wording became more elaborate and challenging. For instance at the beginning we were told specifics.

You wake up from a hotel at 6 AM You have breakfast from 6 AM to 6:30 AM You pretrip your truck from x to y.

Now, going into one of the later days you had to pay attention to the night before because the next day doesn't state where you wake up from.

you have a 30 minute breakfast, a 15 minute pretrip and you depart the truck stop at 7 AM you drive for 3 hours following one highway into some state then turn onto another highway where you take a 15 minute break and continue driving for 4 hours where you take an hour lunch in such a town and state then drive for 3 more hours and you stop and sleep in a motel in another location.

From this you can gather all the information you need for off duty, sleeper, driving and on duty (not driving).

It was really fun and enlightening! :)

Tomorrow it's more driving!