Profile For Sandman J

I use the free version for finding hole in the wall parking options, what time certain truck stops are likely to fill up and how big they are, and sometimes seeing how many weigh stations I'll be going through.

I have an atlas. I don't use it as much as I used to because I go to a lot of the same places that I'm familiar with. It's great though for ensuring your route won't meet any low bridges and I wouldn't want to travel without one.

My truck makes a honking sound if my right turn signal is on and it thinks a car is there. Oftentimes that car it thinks is sees is a Jersey barrier or some other object. Scares me every time. When I was knew I'm sure more than once I swerved back into my lane thinking a car was doing the honking.

I'm jealous Grumpy, enjoy retirement!

That sounds brutal Bobcat. I've been spending a lot of time in shops recently. I've had problems when hooking to some but not all trailers where certain lights wouldn't work. All they'd do is change the green cord but usually within a week the problem would return. I finally got it in to my company shop who found corrosion behind the connection on the tractor side. So hopefully I can stop sending in breakdown messages.

I have a Cobra 29LTD Classic. I started with the Cobra that has built-in weather, I think the model Bobcat has, but got rid of it because the weather alerts would come across even when it was off somehow. Kept waking me up on my 10 so I switched.

I second what ZenJoker said. It's money well spent. I've had great results from the CB shop at the Petro in Atlanta. Heard good things about the one he mentioned as well.

I like the Drive Weather app. Put in your a and b and start time and it will tell you weather along the way.

If you do pay out of pocket, ask your company if they reimburse. I pay about a hundred bucks and I like the doctor that issued mine, and my company reimburses $75. Or they could set it up for wherever they want and pay it.

Oh and I wanted to let you know, if you do an intro on the main forum (cut and paste is fine), that part gets a lot more views than this section so you'll get more replies and advice when needed.

Awesome! I've only done 3 tours so far, bands popular in their realms but honestly no one I'd ever heard of! BlackPink which is a K-pop band, Don Omar and Fuerza Regida, the last being a seven month tour. One thing that brought me to trucking was there's so many facets of the industry I didn't even know existed, entertainment being one of them.

Welcome to the forum Jim! Sounds like you're having a good start to the industry. Training can be tough, mentally and physically. Just remind yourself it's such a miniscule amount of time in what's hopefully a long as you want it to be career, and whatever you go through in this phase is worth it for the prize: keys to your truck once you go solo. Doesn't matter how long anyone's been at it, we all have days we still feel like a rookie!