Comments By Turtle

We ran some lift axle flatbeds at Prime. Just let it do it's thing. It'll lower automatically when there's enough weight placed on it.

Yeah we had a bypass valve on it allowing us to keep the axle lowered, making the turning radius a little tighter, depending on where the weight was placed.

Don't forget us little guys if you make it big

Ha! With such a small target audience, I have no delusional dreams of the channel exploding or anything like that.

Another vote for Swift. I too have never driven for any of the 3, but I almost never hear complaints about Swift, here or elsewhere.

Nice! The first trip in the books! That's a big step.

Even though I was a CDL instructor for a while there, I can't give an exact answer with confidence here. My gut tells me you'll just need a non-restricted driver in the passenger seat. But I'm not totally sure.

I agree that contacting your local DMV will probably be the easiest and most accurate way to find out.

Thanks B1. I have many more Walmart topics planned. Finding the time to do them is the hard part. Eventually however I will run out of material so yeah you'll start seeing me babble on about random things 😁

Remember we are trying to teach people to be accountable for all incidents big or small?

Where in my post did I advise or suggest anything otherwise? I've been around long enough to know what our goals are here and need no such reminder. I think my record reflects that.

In the interest of what we strive to teach here, I presented a possible scenario and simply asked the OP and readers alike a moral question.

Don't read into it something that isn't there.

Hey, accidents happen and we learn from them. Those kinds of tight scenarios are very common behind Walmart stores, necessitating the need for tight safety policies such as a required GOAL and 360° walk around before any back. People often criticize Walmart for these policies, but we remain one of the safest fleets in the nation because of them.

I could have took it myself to a shop since there was no property damage but did the right thing and called company and claims.

Walmart will forgive a lot of things, including this accident. But failure to report any accident or incident, however minor, will result in immediate termination, no questions asked. They treat it as an integrity issue. Always do the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Definitely a no-go from me, as well.

But this can be a rock and a hard place situation...

Did you curb the tire, causing that damage? If so, that can possibly come back on you as a preventable. What do you do now?

The pre-trip in my video, while fairly thorough, will differ somewhat from Roehl's requirements.

Each company, even each examiner, may require a specific process or verbiage from the student. So while pre-trip videos are helpful to begin building muscle memory, they are no substitute for what you will learn on site from your instructor.

However, if you want to check it out you can find it here:

My pretrip

For a new driver, I'd recommend going here for a more generic version of a standard CDL pre-trip exam. It's the very same video I studied wayyyy back in the day.

Apex CDL Pretrip