Comments By HeavyHauler

I am going through SC WIA. They are awesome. If you have the opportunity to go through the WIA then do it. They will also pay you 10-20 dollars a day for gas. Depending on which program you qualify for.

Well it is not me but a trucker on another site claiming any new drivers now will end up if lucky sixty bucks a week. I thought that was out of whack for sure just wanted to post what crap I find reading other sites that is why I rely on this site for accuracy.

thanks Ron

STOP READING THOSE OTHER SIGHTS. They are nothing but discontent slanderous A-holes who think everyone should suffer because they couldn't complete training or budget properly. There are tons of drivers on here who can give you a more accurate detailed expectation of life on the road. You need to ask them and for dear God, STAY OFF THOSE OTHER SIGHTS. THEY ARE POISON.

Good luck out there brother.

If you have PTSD, you HAVE to learn 2 things.....what your "anger buttons" are....and what you are going to do when they are pushed. For me...I just get this evil kinda smile on my face.. .and keep it there...coming from a woman..and a redhead at that...It usually nuetralizes the situation..not sure how. ..it just does...and it works for me quite well. I then go home and get out my hocus pocus stuff and put a hex on 'em !!!

Starcar your awesome

Brett; your anything but callous. Your extremely informative and helpful. I was just having a bad day and he seems to be one of those guys that seems to have a lack of social etiquette on certain things. I absolutely love climbing behind the wheel of a rig. (even if it is a volvo) The feel of the open road, the solitude of a two-lane country road, the stupid crap four wheelers pull off in front of you.

The bottom line is: I was having a bad day and after spending 11 hrs in a rig with 4 other guys, I was ready to get out of there. The last thing I want to do is destroy a family. But it did bring my PTSD to light and showed me somethings I need to work on still. I am going to meet up with my counselor this week to set up a game plan for me to follow while on the road. Thank you all for the support.

I forgot to mentioned that this is my last week and Thursday is my "graduation" day. I haven't had one single incident. This instructor just started this week and is learning how to train new CDL students. Yesterday was his first time, and on top of this, he was never a driver trainer for the company he worked for. So he is new to the whole training thing.

Today we drove a total of 350 miles for school. We have an instructor in training learning how to efficiently train CDL students. He has this habit of pointing in the general direction he wants you to proceed while you are completing a backing maneuver. I'm to busy paying attention to my surroundings to be looking at his hand. I instructed him to tell me what direction to proceed, i.e. go forward, turn right, slight left. Stuff like that.

I got frustrated because he did this to me 4x today and once it put in a position of almost hitting someone head on a 2 lane side street and damn near taking out a stop sign because of this. He then told me to start waving at the motorist to tell him thank you while my trailer was still in the middle of a turn trying to avoid this stop sign. I told him I would wave, but I'm a little busy right now. He then told me that I need to start showing respect for 4 wheelers (which I always do, because I am bigger than they are) and that I need to control my anger and frustration.

I have PTSD, and sometimes its hard to control it, especially if I keep asking you to do the same thing over and over and your not. I told him this to try to give him an idea why I get frustrated so easy. He told me that that isn't and excuse and that its a bunch of bull****. ****ed me off to no-end. I was told that with me getting frustrated with him that no company will keep me on because they trainers will not put up with it. I understand that aspect. But I am pretty sure that a lot of these companies are aware of the PTSD issue's with veterans and hiring them. I'm not looking to ask any particular question, just to vent I suppose. Do any of you fine people out there in the TruckingTruth know any veterans or drivers with PTSD? Or have you seen it affect the trucking industry negatively.

I to spoke with Roehl. A couple of reasons I am not considering them is this:

1. you do the 7/7 and you SHARE a truck with 2 other drivers. That's 3 drivers for ONE TRUCK.

2. They have a camera on the windshield that is pointed at you at all times. They have a person constantly monitoring it. So you have someone (creepily) staring at you. I guess you could pick your nose and wipe a booger on the lens. Give them a green boogery scope to look through. I know this because we had a recent student who drives for Roehl come to our class this week and allow us to check his truck out. The camera thing is a BIG turn off for me.

3. The 7/7 is literally a part time job with a max income of $26,000 a year. As Brett said, you'd be better as a shift manager at some fast food restaurant chain.

This isn't meant to scare you, but to give something to consider along with everything else you are thinking about. Bwahahahahahaha!

I would have safely did a "control brake" to wake him up. If he wasn't strapped into his bunk, he would have awoke after he hit the floor. Just my course of action. LOL Good luck Daniel. When you coming this way?

I have an idea. When you update your location you can click on other drivers and it shows you who they are. How about having the option to click on their number, then click on their name to contact them? Either email or message? That way if your close to each other, you can contact them

Good luck driving through that communist state. I hate going and living in California.