Comments By Deke

Will you have opportunity to do more practice before then?

Yeah, I am scheduled to do a couple of hours in the truck the day before the retest. Hopefully, that will be enough.

The news just keeps getting better. As if the wait wasn’t bad enough, I was told that Indiana is changing the backing manuevers in 2018. They are supposedly dropping the parallel and adding a 90 degree alley dock. This concerns me a bit, as I don’t know yet if I will be required to do the alley dock or if when I retest, I will be allowed to do the parallel. Hopefully, I can do the parallel because if I have to do the alley dock, I will need more time in the truck in order to learn it.

Not every truck shifts the same, but the ProStar I have been training in seems to like about 1500 rpm for the downshifts....use the quick speedometer formula that Planb gave you above.....45mph 4+5=9th, 35mph 3+5=8th, etc...shift to neutral, rev to 1500, shift to gear.

Make sure you are slowing down enough before you try to downshift. You should be below 1200 rpm.....

At the intersection a mile from my home there sits on the ground three sports drink bottles full of yellow liquid......I can guarantee you that it is not anything you would want to touch.......

I can’t fathom the type of sorry individual who would discard there pee bottles in such a manner. I can only hope that I never witness it first hand as I am likely to retrieve said bottles and return them to their users by air and opened........

That’s great news Curt! A lot of us “older” guys are on the 12 month schedule for physicals because of existing medical conditions and the meds were on to treat them. That’s not a big deal at all.....

I don’t understand why you think you screwed up....because you didn’t find your dream job right out of driving school??

You have your class A license which will allow you to drive any class A or B vehicle (not passenger). So if you want a straight truck job, you can do that.

I would take the safety directors advice. Wait until you get a truck, see what you need, if anything, then work out how to make that happen. Small inverters are not that expensive. They might be able to advance you some money to purchase one if you find you need it.

I would recommend that you get your DOT physical and study for the permit test using the High Road Training materials here on TT. Once you are prepared, go take your permit test and get that before you go to CDL school. This way you can be reasonably sure that your financial investment for school will not be in vain....

Looks like he just posted around week ago......

Which companies accept accidents if there is only property damage

You will need to get your dot physical before you can test for your cdl permit.

School just called me. The earliest the testing site can get me in is Jan 23rd.....☹️ My mistake is becoming even more painful......