Profile For AJF

'ello, tapping this out on a phone during downtime while studying my pretrips. This might be a bit long.

Went to the Prime's PSD course on the 5th of August, get back to Springfield on the 3rd or 4th of Sept. For test taking. Here's to passin'

To those thinking of going to prime, not sure how others do it, but.. if you live in Utah, Missouri or Pennsylvania. get your cdl permit before you go to PSD assuming you get sent to the psd class locally in those states, you've already completed a good chunk of your PSD leaves you more time to take in everything else more.

I've had my cdl permit for about 4mos waiting for my dental surgery to fully heal before headin to PSD. my pa is currently driving for prime, suggested em to me.

Currently have had my 30th brain overload from studying (while touching and identifying each part) and staring at the study guide. the physical part of touching and identifying them isn't do bad.

My PSD instructor is my father, and decided to run me through a quick lil test while driving through the beltway, thankfully not during rush, lol.

Only missed the frame n crossmember mid beltway.

I've made a few pretty bad mistakes early on. but, take em n never repeat them.

For one.. I dont remember where we were, but I'm glad no cops were around. ended up blowing a red light. Woops.

How it happened.. Was told not to approach every green as if it's a fresh and if I didnt see it turn green to dlow down. Well, I did but ended up getting to the "if I stop now, I'm gonna be in the middle of this intersection." line.

Ain't making that mistake again. its fresh on my mind even though it was a while ago now.

Another, was a hard stop this one happened before the red. Thankfully was just bobtail. So no load while that.

Probably one of my worst mistakes, ontop of the red, I did a pretrip. Pa started teaching me some more wtuff.. aannd a weigh station just... I believe right after dc and Baltimore, I had forgot to latch the hood. woops. All the stuff had overloaded my mind and I was thinking about other stuff, that I forgot to make sure the hood was P.M.S. :D

Thankfully, my luck seems to be pretty high. We got bypassed. pulled through with no issues, stopped and latched it up.

Another mistake, that could of gone really bad, forgot to check the blindspot mirrors on passenger side. there was this tiny car. Was trying to move over.

Every mistake, will never be done again, speed wise, I'm fine on. 55 to 60. in 55s to 70 zones, obviously drive speed limit per zone if its sub 60 zone or work zones.

Except maybe making that buzzer go off. or riding the white line a tiny bit. heh.

Speaking of work zones.. I live in MO just north of Springfield.. these more eastern zones make me wanna clinch up.

I've gone down Monteagle twice once both ways, A saying I've heard and was taught by my pa.. "Can go slow down to reach your destination a thousand times, but can only go fast once."

A minor thing that bothers me like a fly, so it's no big deal.. people who use the acceleration lane as a deceleration lane, Oh well no big deal. everyone deals with this. *shrug*

Every day I'm improving, and I'll only get better and better, i plan to stick with this when im old and gray currently 28, gonna be an old rookie, ain't ever gonna consider myself experienced.

I know a lot of people suggest against this, but I'm gonna be a leaser, not because of anyone pushin it onto me, But just personal choice. looking at the differences between the two when prime told everyone about it in class.

Though, if I ever do PSD and/or TNT. also aint gonna influence people either way, my life is mine, theirs is theirs.

This has been quite a lot of tapping s phone, a bit too much for me.for any who read, thanks fer reading.

Just a note my posts and updates will be few, I like to lurk personally. I'll update when I pass or fail my cdl, and if I trifecta or not. Seeya out there, drivers. o7