TravelsinTrucking

Hi everyone!!! One weekend, I was fighting an ear infection. The next weekend, I was exhausted and busy, and the next weekend was really, really hard!!! I finally have a quick second to update all of you haha. Things are going very, very well at school. I'm in my 4th week out of 5, and I'm enjoying myself, and enjoying learning about the industry! I can now upshift and downshift on a manual semi-trailer. Back in a straight line, offset park, and parallel park (yes, I can actually parallel park a 53' trailer!!! thazz right, I'm a boss...😎). Now, if only I could figure out how to parallel park my Hyundai Elantra bahahaha 😂😂😂. I've done left turns, and right turns, and drove on Route 30 yesterday. I've only hit 1 object, and stalled out 3 times. The object didn't break, and I didn't hurt anyone, so for never having driving a manual trans in my entire life, this is a total win for me!!! I can perform a complete exterior pre-trip inspection wi...

Hi everyone! I wanted to let you know that the 1st week at my new school was awesome!!!  It took some time to settle in, but now, I'm feeling like part of the crew, and I'm really enjoying myself.  I am the only woman in a class of 8, and at times that feels daunting.  But, I'm doing my best to focus on learning how to do my job to the best of my ability, so when I'm out on the road by myself, I can be safe and efficient.  I've retained about 85% of what I learned in my first training program, so I'm really proud of myself. My class is made up of several generations, so it's interesting to kind of hear and see how each person arrived at this point in their lives/careers.  We had 3 recruiters come in on Wednesday, and they made their pitches.  2 of them were advertising their flatbed divisions (which I'm not strong enough to do safely, and I'm okay with that lol), and the 3rd had an equally arduous dry van division (loading and unloading food supplies...