Comments By ID Mtn Gal

Why do you have to be home at night every night while you are in training?

Most companies that have training will get you out to their School and pay you while training. I know of no company that will pay an independent training school unless it is a school that they've teamed up with.

Here's some links to read to get you started in this business:

• Truck Driver's Career Guide
• Brett's Book: The Raw Truth About Trucking (free online version)
• High Road CDL Training Program
• CDL Practice Tests

They stay on for 3 years.

The guys will be along before too long to help you out with your other questions.

Laura

No, I've not been rear-ended. However, I have been hit in the steers by 4-wheelers 3 times (once in WA, twice in CA) and hit in the drives/trailers once in Idaho. My last one was in Jan 2018. Haven't been hit since fortunately.

Laura

Unfortunately, Versatile Transport requires two years recent experience.

One never knows with Shannon. After 6 months to 1 year, he may make an exception and take on a driver that has had 25 years experience. It's not like he has no experience. My 22 years off the road would have required at least a year of driving before he would consider it. I know of a couple exceptions to the 2-year experience requirement.

I had 5 years driving experience all as a team driver. I came back on the road 22 years later and so much has changed, even the trucks themselves. I have been back on the road 10 years this September and there are some changes with the rules but not something that you can't overcome when you come back out. You will be just fine. I'm going to be 73 this July. A year ago winter, I chained up five times going over Donner. I'm not wanting to do that now and with Versatile we don't, but I could if I had to.

Laura

Automatic dishwasher for truck drivers. Many different models available.

Hey!! I've got one of those which also doubles as a vacuum sometimes 😉😁😂🤣

Laura

Oh My Gosh!! That was fun to read! You are funny!

Laura

It really depends on who you are driving for. If it's a small company, more than likely. If it's one of the big carriers, maybe.

This is not a good time for drivers, so be prepared to be let go. However, when you talk with Safety, eat humble pie, let them know that you were wrong and know it, what you learned from this incident and you may just save your job. The big companies know that most all trainees will have one or more incidents their first year and are prepared to keep them on.

Good luck to you.

Laura

Hey Laura, I also use a dry erase marker but have stopped writing on my driver door window because when I lower the window it erases the writing. Do you have this problem? Or do you just never open your window, lol ?

When I came back on the road in 2014, I was driving a 2012 international. The windows did not seat tightly in the door, so when I wrote on the window and opened it, it usually didn't get erased. Then I went into Freightliners and drove them until last month when I got put in this Peterbilt. I have written on the windows and when opened, the writing does get erased. However, I don't open the window while I'm driving, mainly only when I am backing up.

On this load that I picked up in Baker City OR, I dropped down to Ontario OR and then ran US95 north to Grangeville ID. I stopped to visit a Facebook goat friend for the first time. I was telling her of my route that I had planned to take out of Grangeville. I was going to go cross country to come out at Missoula Mt on I-90. The route that I had so painstakingly wrote on the window, she told me that it had a number of areas that were dirt road and with the snow recently having melted off, I could end up in trouble. She gave me a different route which was a good road. So I opened the window before I took off and closed it, wiping off most of the dry erase pen. 😉😂🤣

Laura

I love those first few weeks and or months of a new truckstop, while the herds are too timid to try it.

Eventually the herds realize it's a fresh watering hole offering some protection against the 14 hour Eld jackals and Parking enforcement predators of the north American trucking ecosystem and will eventually over crowd it to the point where the strong loners and weakest offspring will avoid it.

The newly minted offspring will often fall prey to the predators in short times unless they learn to adapt to the cruel harsh environment and go nocturnal as the loners do. It's a cycle as old as the birth of the 14 hour clock.

That 403, you don't have permission to access this resource popped up on that post all day a few days ago. Since nobody posted about it until you did, I thought I was having some issues with TT. Strange!

Laura