Profile For Jason S.

Congratulations! I just passed today as well, a huge relief isn't it?!

I took my pre-trip, basic control and road test this morning and passed! I aced my pre-trip and much to my surprise managed to peg the 90 with just one pull-up and one g.o.a.l. What an instant rush of relief, thank you all for this site and words of wisdom scattered throughout it.

I start orientation with System Transport here in Spokane WA on the 26th, flat-bedding the 48 and Canada.

v/r Jason

Hello all,

I've been lurking the forums here for awhile and have to say this site is a wealth of information. I started training at a private school on the 15th and tested the 18th on General Knowledge, Air Brakes, and Combination at the DMV for our permit. The online training program here helped me more than studying the state manual with it's progressive questioning and still working through it for the other sections I have yet to test on. Thank you for the hard work you dedicated to this site.

Today was our first day out in the truck and an introduction to reality! It's not that easy to drive one of these things, so much going on at once but not as bad as I thought it would be. We had several runs through the gears and and back down. The Volvo shifts at 1000 in the low range and 1400 at the high and about the reverse coming down. I read a trick on here some time ago about adding the odd numbers together (i.e. 35 mph / 3+5= 8th gear) should you forget which gear you should be in and it really helped, but the transmission felt like it had a tremendous amount of slop in it. Is this indicative of a school truck or is this a norm that needs to be learned and overcome? Even while in gear it felt like "neutral".

v/r Jason