Comments By Mark .

When you have the opportunity to go home for a couple of days, what determines if you are able to drive the truck home or leaving it at the company and drive your car home? Thanx

If I get my CDL permit in one state (ie. CA) and then find that I am accepted to a business sponsored school in another state (ie. TX), is the Permit I have from the CA still good in TX or do I have to take the test over again in Texas. I am not talking about these above mentioned states specifically, but two different states in general. Thanks. Mark

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The advice I was given applies to a 10 speed or 9 speed only. Look at your speed gage and it will almost always tell you your gear. 25 (2+5=7) shift on the tens (10, 20, 30ect) low side shift between 1000 and 1200 rpms, highside shift between 1500 and 1700 rpms. Downshift at 1000 to 1200 and rev to 1400. Now every truck varies alittle but this is just a guide and really helps if you lose a gear.

Please elaborate. Thnx.

What's a good dash cam to use? Thanks

I just recently found out about the blind spots on trucks. How does a trucker deal with blind spots? Can you buy blind spot mirrors that you can move from one truck to another easily? Thanks

If you find a walmart parking lot that is good to stay at, what do you do if you wake up at 3am, Walmart is closed, and need to use the restroom.?

Once I have the physical from the company sponsored training, if the Doctor finds that I am diabetic (I wasn't the last time I checked), will he write a prescription or will I fail the exam, be sent home, and then have to be checked by my personal physician and get medication before I can return to take the DOT physical?

Thanks Mark

Then do I understand correctly that you make you last dropoff (wherever that may be), then, while still on the clock, you drive to your destination for home-time, park the truck, log-off the clock, do what you will for several days (your off-time). Then, when your on-time comes, log in and start up the truck, drive to your first destination to pick up a load.

One thing I am trying to clarify is that you are still on company time from the time you drop off the last load til the time you arrive at your destination and log off, for down time. Is this correct?

thanks.

Thanks all for the replies. Now my next question, still pertaining to this topic is, whether the driver is at home or elsewhere, can the driver drive the truck for personal matters, sightseeing, etc. or is a personal car/car rental required?

With OTR, I understand that a driver can be on the road for weeks at a time and then have several days off. Does the driver always have to schedule his days off at home or instead of driving the truck to his home, drive it somewhere else to have his time off away from home.

ie... a driver lives in Texas and normally his dispatch will make his last load somewhere near his home. Can he have the dispatch make his last load Rhode Island if he wanted to visit RI for several days? Is this something that is frequently done? Thanks.