Profile For Mr. Pancake

Hello folks, I am new to this forum and I heard about you guys from a fellow student and I thought I would see whats the deal. I registered last night and took my test today.

After a long bus ride out here to Iowa from Florida eve though they have a facility in Jacksonville (that was full) I am glad that I made the choice to come out here to Iowa.

The instructor that I have has been great and I'm only on my third day in class.

I retain information easily but i was dissapointed by the fact i missed over three hours of instruction because of the DOT Physical. No makeup besides just asking another student or reading the manual by it's self and I don't do well with asking other students for help i would rather have someone that already has experience in the field so that I can ask questions and get the answer from someone who has experience with that and the concept behind the answer from them.

I wish that the training was a little less fast paced for some of the other students that might take a little more time to understand the material.

Don't get me wrong but just know this might not be the program for some people. I do highly recommend the program for most people because they do teach you but be prepared for self study and finding a group to study with.

I will try to update this with my experience from the actual behind the wheel portion of the training.

I passed all three exams on the first try, using only 30 mins out of the 90 that we get for all three tests meaning an avg. of 10 mins per test. Gen Knowledge: -5 Air Brakes: -1 Combination: -2