Important To Finish TT High Road Training Program.

The High Road Training Program is a very useful tool to accomplishing your CDL Class-A. Going into training armed with this experience is a foundation for success. With concepts of the material already in your head material is made comprehensive. I blazed through my training and achieved an over-endorsed(every endorsement ,needed or not) CDL. However,I neglected to finish the TT Training program. Next week I leave for orientation with my first job. I always read the truckers forum and while doing this I ran across a response Brett made to Rene about the importance of finishing this course. This reminded me to go and look into the last two chapters ,Log Book and Weight and Balance. I had no idea what I had missed .Now I can say I have finished of the program. I could have missed the opportunity to make myself more valuable to my company from the first day of orientation. Thank you truckingtruth.com and all the unselfish souls that contribute here. To all students like me that get detracted by the pace of learning a new trade.Follow through, you don't know what your missing, your future depends on it.

You totally said it man! The Logbook and Weight & Balance sections of the program are critical knowledge you're going to need on the road and sadly enough they are sparsely covered in training of any sort. In fact, a lot of that stuff experienced drivers don't know as well as they should, especially when it comes to the Logbook rules.

Ya know - here's something interesting. Everyone focuses on mileage pay and average weekly miles when trying to determine how much money they'll make at any particular company. But most people don't realize that if you don't know the logbook rules inside and out you're leaving money sitting on the table. There's going to be times when you could utilize a certain rule or special provision to legally keep driving when others think they're forced to stop. A load most people might turn down because they think they don't have the hours to make it, you might be able to run it because you know of logbook strategies that they don't. So knowing the logbook rules really well will have an impact on your paycheck.

And of course the Weight & Balance section covers all kinds of stuff you'll need to know out there:

- how to adjust axle weights by sliding the trailer tandems

- how to adjust axle weights by sliding the 5th wheel

- how to calculate fuel burn-off

- how to determine what lengths and weights you must conform to based upon what states you're travelling through (ya didn't know THAT would be a thing, did you???)

- how to properly load a trailer for equal weight distribution

- understanding the lever-effect of loading cargo behind the trailer tandems (you have no idea what I'm talking about here, do you????)

...and a whole bunch of other stuff. It's real-life, everyday things a professional trucker will need to know to do their job out there. Not knowing that stuff will cost you time and money, I guarantee it.