Nervous Excitement

Sam, do not be concerned about your suckiness. If you're like most truck students, you'll question your ability to back up a tricycle about the second day of backing practice.

Can confirm, I'm in CDL school and I suck.

Good luck with it, you'll do great!

For the first two weeks I was in school, I told my husband every night that there was NO WAY I could do this!! And I believed it too. I was terrified way more times than I was confident and trust me I killed my fair share of cones!!

You and the Mrs will be just fine! Just keep a positive attitude, look at every "failure" as an opportunity to learn and we will see you on the road before you know it! The coffee is on me if we ever meet up out there!

A great saying for all those in school or struggling through those first few months solo: You have only failed when you QUIT TRYING!!

Best wishes to the both of ya! Hopefully I'll be taking that bus ride this time next month.

I like most others am looking forward to reading your diary, & add my well-wishes to those above! Sucking is learning, so how much did you expect of yourself anyway?? Haha.

I just hope I don't suck.

Oh you're gonna. In fact I wrote a *FUN ARTICLE* about watching people learn to back up at school from an experienced driver's perspective:

The Backing Range At Trucking Driving School - It's Like Clown Soup For The Soul

(dyinnnng)

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You won't suck more than I did at forst. We. A teuck in the interstate pulled next to me I would.move toward the should and yell "big scary truck coming" .. in a few weeks I was a big scary truck and didn't care about them lol. Good luck...and we r hear ;)

Just waiting on the trucking company to give the go ahead and will be heading to Springfield, MO myself. Hopefully within the next few weeks. By then you shouldn't suck so bad, and hopefully take pitty on the new newbie and not laugh quite so hard :)