Trucking School And Beyond (My Jounal)

That's an old line they said you about "forgetting everything". Forget they said that!

Look at it this way. What are you getting the most practice in? Backing! Backing is the hardest thing in trucking to get your brain wrapped around.

There's about 20 million OTR drivers in the United States, and they all had to start somewhere!

I can definitely agree with the backing comment. That is the one thing that drove me nuts this week and no matter how many times the instructors would tell me "you will never be great at it, only get a little better each time" it still made me kick the dirt and swear when I would mess up an easy straight line back, or at least what I perceived to be easy. I do think about it far too much to the point I mess myself up and end up having to make a correction more difficult that the backing job I would have had to make in the first place. But with time comes practice, and in the whole scheme of things I am just starting out and I am hoping time brings more confidence the more I do it.