Profile For BigShow3915

Home for the weekend, getting to spend some quality time with my family. Just finished my first 2 weeks as a solo driver. I really enjoy it so far. No mishaps and everything has gone pretty smooth except for a flat tire on the tractor. Noticed it when I was on a fuel stop. Luckily not damage to the tire or anything and was able to get it patched and was back out on the rd in less than 2 hrs. (Had ran over a piece of metal) first week I had 4 loads and 2100 miles. This week was slower, only had 2 loads for 1300. Been kinda weird with the virus thing going on. Hope for more weeks like my first

Had my first overweight load on Thursday. Picked up a preloaded trailer of drywall in Kentucky. No scale on site, drove to the nearest scale and it scaled at 82900. Took it back and had to get another load. Totally screwed up that day lol. Will be testing out on friday and then get my own truck. Have a good weekend everyone!

12 days in and it's going good. Being with a regional trainer most loads are under 400 miles, so we've been doing a load a day. I'm on my 2nd solo load, which you've got to do 5 before you test out and get your own truck. I should be done with that the end of this week or the beginning of next week. I hope to test out of phase 2 by the end of next week

Very nice Brandon, seems like you're kicking a$$

Same to you Chris! Finally heading out at 4am in the morning to meet up with my trainer. He's regional flatbed and lives about 90 mins from me. Ready to conquer phase 2 of training and start making some real money

The way she made it sound during the conference call meeting she could have people in trucks by last Wednesday. The 2 others in my truck have been out since Friday. I talked to my trainer on Friday, he runs regional and was off yesterday. He lives about 90 mins from me and we are headed out 0600 tomorrow. Good luck

Thank you everyone. It was a fast 4 weeks. I am currently back home for this week. Have to go to the dmv to get my cdl license and will then start my next phase of training with an ovr trainer hopefully by this Friday. Phase 2 is 19 days or so, then I will go to one of terminals to "test out" and then get my own truck. Ready to start making real money. I would highly recommend Roehl's GYCDL to anyone. It is a fast paced program. Its 4 weeks long but I didnt step foot in a truck until the 2nd day and had my cdl test exactly 3 weeks later. I really didnt have any issues as I pick stuff up pretty quickly. Even a few of the guys that didn't progress as fast still passed their test the first try, which I believe is because of the excellent trainers that are in the gary terminal. Thanks to all on TT for reading and commenting

I passed the cdl test today!

Congratulations Cowboy, I am testing tomorrow

Sorry I haven't posted more. I am really enjoying my time so far. Two weeks down and 2 to go. I am home right now. It's a 5 1/2 hr drive from my house to Gary. We had class on sat that covered life on the road. That lasted about 2 1/2 hrs then I booked it home. Ran into Brandon Kitts at the hotel on Monday. It was nice meeting you and hopefully you got your truck! Basically the whole week 2 is spent out driving half a day and then out in the training lot backing the other half. You start out with a van trailer for the first 3 or 4 days. Then you get to hook to a flatbed for the rest of the program. At least in Gary since all but one of us is flatbed. I have been doing well, just stupid small mistakes every now and then. My instructor has told me I just need to tighten up my stuff. The hardest part of learning to drive a tractor trailer that I see other than the obvious things like making turns and paying attention to everything going on around you is the shifting. It trips alot of people up. 4 of the 6 guys in my class are actually going in today for 2 hrs to work with a training instructor to concentrate on just shifting. If you are having problems with driving, backing or shifting they will schedule you to come in for 2 hrs either sat or sun to work on it. The training is tough but they want you to succeed and give you every opportunity to do it all you have to do is put the effort in Looking ahead to the 3rd week, we have a pre-cdl test that they do on tuesday that includes pre trip, backing manuveuvers, and a driving test. From what I've heard they grade it pretty tough just to see what we need to work on for the real test, which for our class is scheduled for a week from this Tuesday. I will try to update how my pre test goes. Thanks all for reading and hope it helps to shed some light on the GYCDL program