DCS School Of Driving

Congratulations!!!! Sounds like you went through a great program. Pennsylvania has some of the toughest roads for a newbie. Let us know where you end up.

Congratulations!

Thanks! I feel like it was a great program and would highly recommend anyone in PA or possibly Maryland to check it out if you're thinking about taking a class. We had one person drive from Hazelton every day which is a good 2 hour ride.

With only 6 people per class you get a lot of time in the tractors whether it was on the road or backing and running through pretrip and couple/uncouple procedures. When you were on the road it was smaller backroads with tight turns and hills with some town traffic mixed in. Little time was spent just driving the highways and if we did it was a short time to get to the next exit. Lots of shifting and double downs.

I feel pretty good with what I have learned so far but know that it is only a small blimp in what I'll learn when I start somewhere and eventually go solo. Taking this week to get in contact with the few companies I've been talking to and reviewing offers and deciding. Will probably start asap, April 2nd if possible.

Just wanted to update that I started this week with F.T silfies & JP donmoyer doing dry bulk pneumatic tanks. They are a part of quality carriers and have all the resources available to them. Have around 200 drivers so a medium size, family owned company. I may do a training diary on it but not sure yet. I know it isn't the preferred approach but it had everything that I was looking for. So far we've hauled varies forms of lime stone out of quarries and 3/4 of the day is spent on the highways doing 1 or 2 loads a day. Training is 4-5 weeks. Trucks are smaller typically 13 ft or less height and with the longer wheelbase daycab total length comes in around 58 ft combined. If you guys think a diary will help I can try to do one since there is not much information out there on this field of trucking.

I'd love to hear about it. Most diaries are dry van or reefer. It would help those entering this profession an idea of different types of freight they can haul. They may not start hauling it immediately but atleast they'll know what's out there and can potentionally work their way to it. Itd be cool too if you're able to snap some pics of places you pick up or deliver as most other freight is delivered to boring distribution centers.