Comments By Sweet Jimmy

Everyone here has been a huge help to me, senior members as well as rookies like myself. I've always said that almost everyone you come in contact with can teach you something. That said, Errol and G-Town's advice were invaluable to me. I joined about the time Turtle was in training and he did such a great job of presenting the process that it didn't appear as daunting as I had at first imagined. Really helped me decide to enroll in school. And then there was Kori, her positive "can do" attitude gave me a model for approaching school. It was really needed since it had been since 1985 that I last had any actual schooling. Also, thanks to Brett for this site and always being the voice of reason, and to all members, you've all been a help whether you know it or not.

This is interesting to me as we had a recruiter a couple of weeks ago that was telling us all the "great tax benefits" of being a driver.

Do any of you know of a resource for drivers to educate themselves on taxes for drivers?

He was telling us that any clothes or shoes that we had to buy should be bought out if our home state so they'd be a deduction. Is this true? I figured I better double check him as most recruiters came off like used car salesmen.

Great job! I knew you could do it!

Thanks G-Town, you're a big reason that I made it.

G-Town is solid on every bit of advice I've seen him give. And I agree with him yet again, after just going through it, I'm sure nerves are the big deal. Just get chilled out somehow, one thing that helped me was the realization that I'd done the same thing every day for 6 weeks, and the test was just another run through it.

I'll be looking for it Minnis! Good luck!

Most of my class has gotten in a circle and prayed together every morning of testing. On my road test day, I came in totally jacked with nerves, but after the prayer circle, I had a calm come over me and went out and did it. Even with a monumental screw up during my test, I remained calm. Your class should give it a try, but you gotta believe.

Never mind, I saw the other post. You'll get it tomorrow!

Better day today?

Well, I have my class A in my pocket, a certificate showing that I have 200 hours of driving experience, and I just got back from taking my drug test for Heritage Freight! So I think I'll go ahead and change my "in CDL school"designation.