Making The Jump

Well, after being on the fence about committing to it for as long as I can remember I'm finally at a place in my life where I can give this a shot without worrying about things at home. So far, I don't even have my permit or my med card but with any luck both will be taken care of with no problems (thanks to the program on here and as many other practice tests as I've been able to get my hands on) next week.

I've been in touch with a recruiter with Wilson about their CDL program and like what I heard from them and what I saw mentioned about them both here and a few other places. I've got a conditional employment letter and a tentative start date for them already. Little nervous I haven't heard from my recruiter again yet after being told he'd check in daily with me to see how things were going getting everything in order this past Friday but I'm telling myself it's just because of the holiday. Not sure what else to put right now, but I suppose my next update will be next week after I have the permit in hand and the start date finalized. Either way I'm definitely looking forward to this.

Wishing you the best, Alex ~!!!

Keep the TT community posted, and shout if you have any questions; a great many veteran / seasoned drivers on here to help~!!

Recruiters take days off. Lol. What do you need to hear if you have the invitation. I only talked to my recruiter twice before I came to prime

Recruiters take days off. Lol. What do you need to hear if you have the invitation. I only talked to my recruiter twice before I came to prime

Did end up hearing from him again yesterday. Just had me worried when he said he'd check in every day to make sure I didn't have any questions about it and then didn't get anything over the next three or four days.

Without going into a several paragraph rant nobody cares to read I'm just paranoid about being ghosted somewhere in this process because that's what happened with the temp agency I worked for. Ended up wondering how to make rent for the rest of that year while playing phone tag with them and any other place I could apply for. Turned out the guy handling my file there left and they 'forgot' about me despite daily check ins for the first couple months after the last assignment. Been too afraid of getting burned again to try to get out of the mcjob I've had for the past couple years until now.

I feel you, on the 'ghosting fear' part. It's been an 'odd' year, 2020 has, for sure. No presumptions here, either. As long as you are honest and have all your ducks in a row . . . you should be fine, though!

Wishing you well; hope this all works out for you, Alex~!! Keep us posted, please.

Little update now that I finally have enough to be worth writing about. Got my physical and permit taken care of with no problems. Day or two after that they got the background checks and whatever else they needed to look into done and I have a 10/5 start date in Springfield.

Good deal!

You're well on your way now.

Well tonight's the night. The night I head to training anyway. Last minute I found out there was some kind of miscommunication somewhere along the line. My home terminal is going to be Springfield but I'm actually training in Missoula. At least I get more of a scenic drive for the extra 7 or 8 hours it's going to take to get there.

Well tonight's the night. The night I head to training anyway. Last minute I found out there was some kind of miscommunication somewhere along the line. My home terminal is going to be Springfield but I'm actually training in Missoula. At least I get more of a scenic drive for the extra 7 or 8 hours it's going to take to get there.

Still following, and of course wishing you well, Alex! This is AWESOME news! Wishing you a safe journey to MT, and await your next posts!!

Best wishes;

Anne :)

Well, first days done and in the books. The first half of the day was going over paperwork then a break for lunch. When we got back we went over the JHA's, which was just making sure everyone could get in and out of the truck, open and close the hood, work the landing gear and get in and out of the trailer. Everyone in my group passed that without issue, though I'd imagined the high gear getting the landing gear up/down faster than it did. I lucked out and went last, so by the time my turn came around everything had been worked loose and was about as easy as you could hope. Hardest part for everyone seemed to be getting the trailer doors open, something was tweaked with it towards the top and kept making the door stick closed.

After that it was several hours of studying, we all need to retest for our MT permits tomorrow. Wish I'd have known they were open to us knocking out our endorsements at the same time, I'd have done some studying for those as well.

Tomorrow's update should be a little more interesting, we're all getting some simulator time and it sounded like we'd get a demo of how the pretrip is expected to be done.