Update

Hello all just a little update. My first load to Richmond was over gross by 740 pounds so we took it back to the yard and dropped it to pick up a load headed towards Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania. Man such beautiful country up here. After we dropped it we picked up a hazmat load of batteries and my trainer has to drive until we drop it because my fingerprints aren't back yet. Learned how to float gears and am doing good at that now the backing is a different story and I will definitely need work on it. But I hadn't driven in a year so I expected to be rusty. I'm writing this from a pilot just on the inside of Ohio on i80

So far, so good then. The majority of your backing skills you'll likely develop once you go solo. It takes quite a while to really start getting good with it.

Thanks Brett and it took me some time to learn in school to where I was comfortable and will hope get more comfortable as time passes

Oh you'll certainly get more comfortable. In fact, this is the least comfortable part of your career right now. Your initial road training and those first few months solo are super challenging. You'll make a lot of rookie mistakes, like we all did, but as time goes on you'll make fewer mistakes, you'll get much better with your driving and backing skills, and you'll learn the in's and out's of life on the road.

If things get tough or you run into situations and you're not sure how to handle them, let us know. We're always happy to help. Too often someone will come in here saying, "Well, I quit my job today and burned a bridge and I just wanted to tell you guys about it."

It's agonizing for us when that happens because we could have helped prevent the whole disaster if they would have told us what was going on before they made a major career move. So keep a great attitude out there, learn all you can, and keep us updated as things go along.

Best of luck!

Thank you for the kind words. I'm just experiencing the luck of the draw my trainer said but were gonna be doing our 34 hour reset somewhere near new jersey. He said this is only like the 3rd time in 2 years he's done a reset away from home. But he has a play station on the truck and we get along great so far so it hopefully won't be too bad. I am racking in the miles though this will be my second trip to the east coast this week with 2 other trips in between