Comments By PacMan

Jamie,

Keep improving and you will see your miles increase. Being safe and on time are the goals. I started out with Schneider back in 2000 and I experienced the same thing as I'm sure we all have. Trust has to be established and you have to continue to show that you can get the job done. Stay safe out there.

Sheesh, I missed two days of story time. Professor X, I am thinking of attending Roehl's school and I wanted to know do they have cabin facing cameras and do they have team driving positions.

Congratulations Kim. Great way to handle that pull through. I remember the first time I was taught to do a pull through at Schneider and it was the scariest thing. It didn't look like the truck was going to fit, but low and behold it did.

Glad you and your codriver are OK Tinker.

I had a Galaxy 959 with too many bells and whistles. As a newcomer to the industry it can be easy to fall into the trap of having the strongest radio on the roads. When you hear how much money some drivers put into their CB choice, it can be mind boggling.

Thx for the warm welcome .

Hello Professor X,

Your diary is one of the reasons I joined this site. I would also agree with your instructor about checking the tires. There was a picture that I saw in the gallery section of some type of sharp object that was stuck through the thread of the drive tire horizontally. If that tire was covered in snow, there would have been no way to see that foreign object. As G-Town said, the treads can't be checked if they are covered in snow.

Keep up the great job and please keep your diaries coming. It is also said that instructors in any field are hard on the ones that they feel can do the job to make them better. I hope this is the path your instructor is taking with you.

Hello Drivers,

I have been lurking on these forums for the past couple of weeks and I am very impressed with how this website is setup and how it is ran. I am a 41 year old US Army Veteran that started my driving career in 2000 with Schneider National. At that time, they ran their own school, which provided me with better training than the military did, as I was a Motor Transportation Specialist (88M) in the Army. I still believe hands down that that training is the best of the industry. During my time in the industry, from 2000 to 2013, I drove for Schneider, JB Hunt, US Express, Covenant, and an O/O.

In 2013 I left JB Hunt and got with an O/O who I thought was a "friend" as he promised me certain things that sounded good at the time. Looking back now, I should have stayed where I was. After this incident and not understanding the changes that were being implemented in the industry; electronic logs was just getting started, I felt that I needed to get out of trucking. So, I went to the DMV and surrendered my CDL to force myself to not use my CDL as a crutch to fall back on while I went to school to get my degree in Psychology. During this time, I did not keep up with trucking in the least bit, but when out and about my eyes kept being drawn to those beautiful vehicles delivering freight on the roadways.

As many of you experienced Drivers may have heard at some point in your career, "once that diesel is in your blood, it's hard to get it out," that is exactly how it is with me. I started regretting giving up my CDL, but everything happens for a reason. Although I am experienced, I see how the industry has changed and I know I need to go back through training. Not for the operation of the truck, but for the new Qualcoms and the new HOS. Now that the industry is going to automatic trucks and they are putting restrictions on license's stating that, I will make it a point to go to a school that uses manual transmissions to test on.

I pray that I am able to go to the Roehl school and drive for them as I have read nothing but good things about their program and company. My alternate is Prime, as I read the same about their program.