Comments By Minnie Mouse

So I do my eval tonight. I feel more confident then I did last week. Please wish me well cross fingers toes and eyes for me.

Fixing to take a nap before I go to the range tonight. I feel very confident about tonight. I was in the study/laundry room this morning going over the backing skills with some of the newer students, helping them has also is making it click more for me. I'm going to go in tonight with the can do this I got this attitude.

Well I have 24 hours off. The bus will be back until Monday night to take us to the range. I will have a eval on Wednesday or Thursday and will be able to do a re-eval on Friday. They was 13 of us that was rolled into the 3rd week. One went home due to the shed he backed into another became sick and went home.

The past week we had 57 students and 22 trucks. It was really hard to get drive time. This class is smaller around 30. So I should be able to get more time to drive. I have been over driving the truck now that I understand what I'm doing wrong I can get it in the box. I have to tweak it to limit the pull ups. I know if I can pass my eval I can pass the DVM. They make it harder so you can trifecta.

Wish me luck.

Hey, that's awesome news for you! Not so awesome for the "shed destroyer" guy.

Someone had just asked on another thread about the most common reasons people get sent home from these training program. I forgot to mention "running over a shed".

My instructor said a few weeks ago a guy thought he would do a u turn on the station that was set up for parallel parking. He got the trail hung up on a light pole when the truck stopped he pop it in 3 gear and hit the excelerator. The trailer was destroyed along with the pole and lights went out.

I had a really great day today. I got the 90 three times in a row! I have a new range instructor and he walked me thought it half a dozen times. He is a little bit on the drill sergeant side but what he said clicked. I only killed two cones today lol. I also found out that we can request the truck and "station" we want to do our eval. That will help also.

We did lose a classmate. He got the truck all jack up and hit a storage building. His spotter was jumping up and down yelling stop and he didn't. The trailer is damage the shed is scrap metal and he is on his way home via greyhound.

Well I didn't pass my eval so I get another week to work on them. I was told that I'm over driving the truck. So I worked on that for the remainder of the day. I understand what they are saying but putting it in to play is harder than it sounds. Wish me luck, cross your fingers, and send good happy vibes my way.

Night backing you say?? We didn't have that at the Phoenix school. Would have liked to have had that training first.. lol

Night time makes it so different. We put our flashlights in the cones and hope we don't run over them. My room mate has killed about 12 of them. We also eval out at night if we don't make it we have a chance to redo it Friday during the day. I can get them in the daytime but once the sun goes down I'm lost.

I get into the truck every time I get a chance. Last night was bad. We was hit with a thunderstorm but we still worked on the range. It was a great time to find out my boots had holes in them but the rain suite worked great the rest of me was dry. My trainer said I'm doing great and I'm right on track. I do my eval to Wesday or Thursday. At least tonight its not raining

On my 2nd week at the Swift Academy . We are working at night backing and its raining cats and dogs. i think I'm doing ok. we get evaluation Wednesday or Thursday if we don't pass we get a 2nd chance Friday if we can't do it by then we can stay another week. I'm puting in as much drive time to get the skills down. wish me luck ill keep you posted

Hello to all. just a note to let you all know its going well. i don't have a internet connection so all i have is my phone. after the mess up with greyhound i got to millington tn after midnight Sunday night. but its all been great since! did backing today and will again rest of the week. let you all know more when i can get a wifi connection