Roehl GYCDL Program Week 3

Day 1 pretrip, driving and backing. It was a big day. The instructor let us back without his guidance at all to see how we were doing. I nailed my straight line, suffered at my offset and nailed my 90 degree back. After it was over he told me I got 4 points, two on my offset for pull ups and two for hitting the cone on my 90. I didn't run it over, I just nicked the flat edge of it and the cone tilted toward my rim. All in all a great day on the road driving and backing. Pre trip and in cab inspection completely memorized and I feel so confident I want to test this week.

Day 2 Pre CDL test.... Well I kinda got my wish. I was first on the pre cdl test. We started with driving, I took an instructor I never met on a drive around town. I was a nervous wreck. I grown so close to my instructor that I had no comfort with him not sitting next to me in the truck. .. tried my hardest to pretend he was next to me, so I took this man for a ride. It took an hour and I had a big oooops. ..I lost my gear going into a downgrade curve and a light shortly after the curve. Because of that i didnt put my left turn signal on and I passed the white line in road as well as ground some gears... all I thought was I failed. Well it turns out none of that is considered a fail. Just a lot of points. Got back and was told I would have only had 3 points but since my oops I got 13. It's still passing!!!! Did my backs and got 0 points!!!! Pretrip nailed it with only missing 2 on account of my verbage or lack of. Rest of day was backing and driving. The usual. Successfully pulled off a no pull up 90. Using only my first hard right and a mix of hard left straight hard left straight I was able to walk her home. I was so happy

Days 3 - 5. Pre-trip, driving, backing. At this point I was laughing at myself for being so scared almost two weeks ago on the range not wanting to get out of fourth gear. My driving was so good I was speeding and getting in trouble for it. So I worked on a new practice to stay 3-5 mph under posted speed limit and not to accelerate until my icc bumper passed the posted sign. Speeding no longer a problem.

Day 6. Classroom. Operations. Great classroom day learning about the operations of the company.

Day 7 - day off