Comments By Paul F.

My first tnt trainer (the guy who kicked me off his truck for farting). Is trying to leave prime. He's applies to several other companies and I just found out from my dispatcher he's still with prime. He told me he's left prime 3 times and always returned. I guess that's why no one else wants him.

Thanks Anthony, be safe out there,

Regarding the hos, (please verify, I'm not certain) but my information suggests dot suspended hos rules for Texas relief drivers.

At prime, the pad was setup that a row of cones to the right of the 90 used for the straight, offset, and parallel was lined up with the back edge of the passenger side window frame when your back was against the seat when you were in the box.

We've been tasked with a load to Florida, when we get there I'll have enough miles to upgrade. 💩 Just got real.

Paul I think it's 1year before you can be experienced driver, but don't quote me on that.

As for the backing, I was very bad at it in training. To this day I still have mess ups out there. Once I went solo and it was on me to do all maneuvers it just got better. Like practice makes perfect. Plus all the stress and pressure we put on ourselves in training to learn fast and safe but to get out there and make money for whatever reason we have also plays s part in why we suck in training. At least that's how it was fir me.

I don't think I'll feel experienced until about 6-7 years.

Everyone stresses about backing at first. (So they say). Why should I be different? From what I've heard, at prime 120 or so start every week, and only 20 or 30 make it to solo, so without jinxing myself, (I don't believe in jinxes,except for the commentator saying "he hasn't thrown an interception in XXXpasses", he will very soon after) with 2038 mile to go once we reach Chicago I feel I've beaten the odds already.

I will do this. (A self fulfilling prophesy)

Oh, and I drove Donner pass too. It was daytime, and in summer, and we were not too heavy. Piece of cake.

Just call me super trucker.

That's super (slow) trucker.

Like they taught us in class, you can take the turn hundreds of times to slow but you can only take it once too fast

I hope I can do this. I know that everything I've read, they say everyone is not comfortable backing. I am firmly part of the "everyone" category. All the forward stuff is ok (most of it). I'll continue to learn on my own as I go. And I know I'm smarter than the average bear, and if some of the people I've seen out there can drive a truck backwards, I sure as heck can learn to as well.

I've got 4101 miles left to upgrade, and we have a pre plan for 915 tomorrow. I'm going to thouroughly enjoy changing my status from in CDL school, to rookie solo driver.

Which leads to the question, how long do I need to drive solo, before I can change that to experienced driver😀😀😀

My thought about this, for whatever its worth, is a driverless truck cannot do a proper pre-trip inspection.

I'm in tnt now, and have found it difficult at times to sleep in the moving truck. Several things have helped me. I actually got a bottle of melatonin supliment. I've only used it a couplebof times but it seemed to help. I also cover my eyes with a corner of my blanket to make it adds "dark" as possible. Also I (like brett) like to read, but I read on my phone, do I turn the brightness down as dark as possible for me to still be able to read. To me, the best remedy to sleep well under any corcumstances is to drive 8-10 hours. I can sleep on a roller coaster if I'm tired enough.