First Truck Driving Dream (nightmare)

Okay all you psychoanalysts and fruedians out there, analyze this:

I haven't even driven a rig yet but I had my first dream about driving one last night (I blame it on too much High Road course studying...).

Anyway, here it is:

I am driving the rig and as soon as I enter the entrance ramp I realize that it is in the wrong direction. No problem. I take the next exit and am going to turn around to get on the south bound interstate instead of the northbound. I pull up to the intersection and get in the innermost left lane to take that u-turn lane that just loops around the underpass and bypasses the light. I make the u-turn under the underpass. So far so good. BUT after I make the initial u-turn, the road suddenly has high cement walls on both sides. Anyway, I make a tight left turn... okay, then another tight left, okay. It's still good. Haven't hit anything. Then I make a sharp right turn. I make the turn okay, but then as soon as I clear the turn I look and it is a dead end. A concrete wall in front of me with only a person type walk through door (kinda like what you see a subway wall or something). Anyway, in my dream I think, "Crap, there's no way I can back this thing out of here. What am I going to do?"

And of course, then I woke up so I don't know the answer.

God help me! Not even driving yet and already having nighmares. LOL.

David dreams:

that u-turn lane that just loops around the underpass and bypasses the light. I make the u-turn under the underpass.

Yes, U-turn in a truck can be a dream for sure! In some companies it's actually against policy.

BUT after I make the initial u-turn, the road suddenly has high cement walls on both sides. Anyway, I make a tight left turn... okay, then another tight left, okay. It's still good. Haven't hit anything. Then I make a sharp right turn. I make the turn okay, but then as soon as I clear the turn I look and it is a dead end.

Have you practiced backing yet? This dream sounds like you have tried some.

No seat time at all in a semi yet. I have backed plenty of single and tandem axle trailers (some squirrelier than others), but nothing remotely close to a 53' behemoth.

As for trucks, I have driven both the longest Budget and U-Haul trucks on 1000 mile plus moves -- that and used to have a large Class A motorhome. But I know that rig will be a whole new ball game.

That wasn't just an ordinary dream. You had a vision my friend. You were driving in New Jersey! Now you know what's it like!

If you have that same dream but a cop pulls up next to you and starts screaming, "Get out of the way! You're holding everyone up!" then you're on the other side of the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan.