Comments By Brian F.

Starting the Swift school in Indiana on Monday. I was just re-reading some old training diaries and noticed a lot of talk about auto transmissions. My question is does anyone know if they are they still training on manuals? I sooo don't want to have the automatic only restriction on my license.

I'm leaving in 2 days to start company CDL school monday the 28th so can't tell you how it ended for me but I am taking a pretty big pay cut. I've been a travel RN off and on for 24 years and enjoyed it for the most part but the manufactured stress level steadily increases every year. I'm at the point that doing something I like is more important than the money. I will miss the money a lot but looking forward to actually doing something I like.

As an ER nurse I will attest to this. Nursing staff and doctors pretty much ignore housekeepers to the point they are essentially invisible at most places I've worked. Yes they work hard and even when they are caught up they don't get to lounge around like everyone else does.

I'm currently a housekeeper in the emergency department for my states main hospital. This job is horrid for pay (barely scraping by 275 a week but I get paid biweekly) management treats us golden employees (ones who care and get stuff done) like crap and ignores any bad stuff the crappy employees do. I bust my butt ridiculously hard to be treated and paid like this. Honestly even when my dad was a regional trucker and he unloaded his trailers at 80 percent of his stops, he still never worked this hard for this crap pay.

Reminds me of driving a Dodge stratus through the WY mountains West bound on 80 a few years ago. It was snowing so hard visibility was barely past the end of our own hood. I've been driving in snow my whole life but that night scared the **** out of me. What I remember most about it was a tractor trailer flying by me in the left lane doing 2-3 times whatever slow speed I was doing. I tried pulling off the shoulder at that point just to catch my breath (Yes I know that was a bad idea) till my passenger said Umm no don't, it's a bottomless drop off with no guard rail. Luckily we found an exit shortly after that and spent the night in a teeny motel. The next morning we must have seen 30 cars in the ditch in the first 5 miles.

I would guess you would need a huge amount of data on your cell plan. Another option might be to record to a memory card on the camera then upload it to her at the end of the day via email. Don't forget to narrate. :)

Awesome

So I go to the truck stop a mile down the street from my house for an emergency Belgian Waffle with strawberries and a scoop of Ice cream. Anyway, sitting next to me at the counter is an old guy in a bomber jacket telling stories. The guy is 83 years old, lives alone, fought in the Korean war in 1951 and still drives his own restored Freightliner pulling MRI and CT vans from hospital to hospital in central NY. I'm a little surprised they would have a guy his age with a stroke in his history pulling million+ dollar vans around but Good for him.

Same here lol. As soon as you say NY everyone assumes the city. I live in an ocean of maple trees and have one traffic light in about a 12 mile radius

Me, I'm from upstate. Just over an hour north of Albany in Washington county.

When most folks hear I'm from NY, one of the first questions is often " what's it like living around all those people in the city?" In fact I'm way out in the sticks on a dirt road. Nothing but maple trees in cow farms in my hood haha

Yeah G, I'm not very close to Johnstown, but when the time comes, I'll be looking into all kinds of options for dedicated

Thanks all for the well wishes. I find that now it's an actual reality I have butterflies but for the huge life change it is for me not so much fear of the process.

If you do well with the TT training the actual test is a cake walk. One question I guessed at was something not covered, the few others I think I missed were a matter of different terminology. I'm not actually sure of which ones I missed because the NY system doesn't tell you. There were actually 3 separate tests for "core", Air brakes" and "Combination". I missed a total of 4 or 5 between all 3 tests which was well within what was allowed. Very easy. I also did Tankers and doubles/triples which were also very easy. There is so little to the tanker endorsement I wonder why they think it even needs to be an endorsement. If you understand bulkhead and baffle, the effect of surge and the benefit of slowing down to avoid rollover you got that one.

Congratulations! I can't wait to get mine and post here, too! I'm slowly making my way through the training here, but I think I'll be very well prepared thanks to the material here!