Sage In Billings Montana

Well got first day done. Very nice people here. Stated at 930 Am.We had introduction and then went over schedule and program out line. We went for drug test and physical.passed with flying colors. Then went back and done more paper work.School starts normally at 8 and goes till 5; with breaks and lunch. I will get more into school on my post tomorrow. I gotta tell ya how bad things went yesterday lol. When I left Miles City. I stopped and my radiator was leaking so in checking it out my phone fell and shattered ugh. When I got to hotel I had to take laptop down to office to see why u couldn't get connected. Well I was running up the stairs and it slipped out of my hands and it broke as well.But hey nothing was or is gonna get me down.Not sure if I am doing this right with my phone so I hope so.Well hope ya all had a blessed day. See ya tomorrow.

Not so good things seem to happen to be in 3's too Carl....but when good things happen I feel more blessed. Keep the positive attitude due.

^scott

Well today was very busy day with pre tests. Tomorrow go to DMV to take written portion of my Cdl. This place is very busy with outside people testing out. I believe there are students that come from Legacy to test as Well. The first 2 -3 days here is strictly study time on your own. Thursday is when actual class room starts. I believe each class overlaps one week. In my class there's 5. Well better hit the books.

Well thanks to this site and a lot of studying. I passed all the test with 100 percent scores. Went and did the finger print part for hazmat.and then my day was done. One thing else I wanna share and many of you probably do this. When I went to college back in 2002 to be a counselor.I struggled with things. I all ways memorized most things instead of actually learning. My professor was the one that explained the difference to me.From that point on I started learning and retaining certain things instead of just memorizing things and not retaining stuff. All the studying that I done by using HRTP from this site and the way Brett and company has it set up. It's for learning not memorizing. A lot less stress in learning I have found out.Anyways I am rambling so again more tomorrow.

I got a day behind however I did get my computer fixed,so mow I can do this with out squinting lol. Yesterday we had classroom in the morning and then went outside in the PM and went over the Pre-trip and back into school room. Some of the things we covered were the different types of transmissions we will be using here at the school. They are 9 speeds, 10 speed and super 10 along with 13 speeds, no automatics. We went over the control systems. We started at 8AM today and it was all class room. Power point presentation on Whistle Blower, FMCA regulations, Staying Healthy while on the road along with how to deal with different types of issues, like family and work. We have test after each topic. Our last test was on the Federal Motor Carrier Regulations Pocketbook. We normally start at 8Am take a 10 min break around 10,then at noon we get a hour lunch break. For now our class ends at 4PM. All in all it has been a very good experience and learning a lot. The only time we will have a schedule for Saturdays is when we start to take road trips and that will be during the day as well as at nights. Tomorrow I plan on going over and working on my pre-trip, then I am going fishing lol. One last thing is I added another company to the top of my list and that would be Watkins Shepard.