Posted: 9 years, 8 months ago
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Our instructor told us last week that the FIRST attempt has an average 100% failure rate...SO maybe they're just trying to keep the average up???
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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Day 2 of CDL school at Chattahoochee Tech
Thanks guys, We had a guy come in today and he was spewing rainbows and roses. After he left, we (our class) kinda dissected what he was saying. so yeah, we take what they tell us now with a grain of salt (even our instructor confirmed what we were saying). I've spoken highly of you two guys in particular and pointed this site out to several classmates, so maybe you'll see some posts from them.
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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Day 2 of CDL school at Chattahoochee Tech
Second day of class complete! more fun, videos, test prep, etc...but we had a couple of folks come in from a local poultry company here in Marietta Georgia, that's looking for drivers. I was intrigued and visited their website, and they are a small Christian-based, family owned company! They have excellent benefits, hourly pay and I'm home EVERY weekend! (FOOTBALL on MY BIG SCREEN and in my RECLINER!)-They are reefer/flatbed as they deliver and pick up poultry.They deliver/pickup as far away as Illinois and regionally here in the south. At MOST I'll be gone overnight 2-3 days-perfect!!! maybe 5 hours of driving ( on average) per day, and they PAY you hourly while waiting to be loaded/unloaded, averaging about 84 hours per week, including bunk time!! They will PAY me to sleep!!! No big company,corporate crap to deal with, Fairly small fleet, and mostly side roads, no expressways as I will be picking up and delivering to poultry farms across the region. I'm sold!! Already sent them my contact info and will be in touch with them as soon as I get my CDL..
SO being a big rig driver does NOT mean you have to be gone for weeks at a time. Another recruiter came in and talked to us and their drivers are home EVERY DAY. they pay 53 cents per mile. We added it up in class, that's approximately $85,000.00/year.....The recruiter said a lot of companies were starting to hire folks right out of school for local drivers, something that used to not happen until you had at least a year of OTR driving..Because of demand and competition, the demand is getting out of hand. They had 20, yep TWENTY driver positions available as of TODAY....
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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Too old for CDL A license.....
I'm 75 years old and want to know if I'm being a foolish old man by wanting a CDL A license and starting a career as a truck driver?
No sir, in fact, our instructor told us a company here in Atlanta just hired a guy 72 years old....
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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First day of Trucking school at good ol' Chattahoochee Tech is done!!! We have a full class of 24 people, all about my age (56), a couple of younger guys (and a girl) and a husband and wife team. Just basic stuff today,video on trucker health, getting enough rest, etc... although we did have a practice exam run-through for General Knowledge, Combination Vehicles and Air Brakes. A LOT of the questions were almost word for word from the CDL Training Materials here at TT..We have a recruiter coming tomorrow, one of MANY over the next few weeks to talk to us about career options. There are MANY companies i have NEVER heard of before hiring a lot of local and regional drivers. One company was requesting a MINIMUM of 20 people to drive lumber trucks locally, one of those with the forklift on the back that the driver uses to unload..I could do that!!! So after many many weeks, I am finally underway! It is VERY much like a regular college class, so I will just update y'all with interesting stuff like range driving...
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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If you have an android tablet I would use XBMC. As long as you have service either WiFi or cell you can get any game from any sport. I use it on my phone and it's excellent. Did I mention yet that it's free.
I will DEF check it out! I like free!!! Thanks!
If your going to be streaming the games better make sure to have Verizon since they have better and wider coverage than AT&T.
oh yeah, I've already talked to the Verizon folks and will be swapping over to them once I'm committed and EMPLOYED!
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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If you have an android tablet I would use XBMC. As long as you have service either WiFi or cell you can get any game from any sport. I use it on my phone and it's excellent. Did I mention yet that it's free.
I will DEF check it out! I like free!!! Thanks!
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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[Video] Truck Driver Busts Cop On His Cellphone, Speeding
I have the utmost respect for both professional truck drivers and members of law enforcement. That being said, while the truck driver may have been correct, he was a bit of a d-bag (can I say that here?). Throughout the interaction, the officer kept his professional demeanor in spite of the trucker "poking the bear" so to speak (pun intended).
Yeah, I saw this and I agree, Driver COULD have been a little less of a jerk.
Posted: 9 years, 9 months ago
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Ok guys, I KNOW I'm not the only football nut here. Die hard dedicated Falcons fan, and if everything works out, I'll be starting training with my trainer around the first week of the season. I HAVE to be able to watch or listen to the games!!! I'm thinking of signing up for the NFL Network season pass for $69.00-that gets you full access to 256 games, all playoff games and more, on demand. Has anyone else signed up or used it?
Posted: 9 years, 8 months ago
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CDLTraining materials
I am scheduled to get my Georgia CDL permit Thursday, and I've been studying the test questions on Trucking truth, BUT since I've started class, we've had some practice tests, and while I've seen a few of them from this site, about 60% of them I have NEVER seen before. I did another search for Georgia CDL Practice Tests and found a site with the same sort of questions that we've been getting in class. Such as:
Safe Drivers maintain space around their vehicles for the following reasons except:
a). In case you must stop suddenly
b).In case there are cars following too closely
c). In case there is an obstacle in the road
d). In case you need to test your brakes.
Pretty common sense right? and it sort of goes with the information given on Trucking Truth. Just worded a WHOLE lot different...I found out that I just have to be REAL careful and read the question like 3 times to get the full meaning and then choose the BEST answer, since the system we use here uses a memorization technique. Just thought I'd point that out. We'll see what the REAL deal looks like Thursday!!!