Crowder College

This is the beginning of the third week at Crowder College Trucking School, a five week program and I'm pretty stoked, pre-tripping, and taking the Goodman route though town.

Feels like the rookie blues, but we all gotta start somewhere right!

Parallel and offset parking with no alley-docking as of yet. Trip planning along with in cab and air break test still feels like new must learn components but it's being beat into our brains along with safety measures in and around the crossbars at the dos and don'ts at railroad crossings.

Downshifting is still a little trough and varies from truck to truck on all 10 to 13 speeds. I've talked to some veterans heavy in the game and they have informed me that it took them as long as 6 months to get comfortable with the shift while still missing gears today with the caveat being that of "recovery".

Class is fairly small with a start of 15 students and an end result of 13 total for the remains three weeks.

Instructors are a class act with easily over a 100 years experience between the whole lot of them.

They are frank, forward, professional and still want you to have fun in the process.

I highly recommend it if your changing careers---

Cheers. Petey