Start CDL School For Stevens Transport Mon. 6/6/16 (Whew, Glad That One Is In That Date!!)

Awesome. Now if for any reason your trainer is delayed getting there, don't take it personally. Good luck. Keep us posted.

Whew that sure is good news!! I'm glad you stuck it out and everything worked out for the best!

Good luck with your trainer!

Thanks Scott and Chickie!!

Yeah, he's already here getting cleared to go out again. I guess every three months we have to come in and get cleared, whatever that consists of. I imagine permits, etc. as I have seen drivers at the central clearance counter with the girls going through their permit books and updating stuff, giving them paper supplies and stuff. We also had drivers sitting in on some of our safety briefings as well.

Sooooooo............I will meet him at dispatch at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning! Getting a little anxious, but excited too. Our training is broken up into six stages throughout the time we're out and I got the entire first stage's on line quizzes and videos done today, so I'm ahead of the game, for now anyway. Can concentrate on learning his ways and his truck for the first week or so.

Will try to keep the updates going.

DSTURBD

Awesome to hear. Best of luck. Keep us updated when you can.

7/24/16

Okay, been on my trainer's truck for two full days now (today doesn't count as we are waiting for our delivery appointment at 0600 tomorrow morning. We only drove about 88 miles this morning to get close and my trainer drove it to save my hours and get me a 34 hour reset for our next load. It's pretty cool as he put me in the seat from minute one and I have done all of the driving up until late yesterday afternoon. His plan is to get my training done in five weeks or better, get me in grad school (4 days) so I can go solo right away, and then he plans to take some time off. We picked up a short trip Friday, and then a re-power from a guy Saturday morning who was running short on hours. We are in MO now to deliver it in the morning. He is hoping for a long trip next for me either to the west so we can get some of my mountains out of the way or back east to get that requirement taken care of. I have to hit all four major regions of the country, and in the north-east I have to either pick up or deliver (or both) at least one load. There are a bunch more requirements as well, but those are two of the big ones. Oh, and by the way Chickie, I got lucky as his tractor is a T680 KW, just like I was hoping!! Sitting here now getting ready to take my last test for the Phase One block which consists of 29 videos and quizzes, but I wanted to check in here first.

Let you know more later,

DSTURBD

Great to hear from you. Glad you're finally doing it. Keep up the good work. Keep us posted.

Passed my last test for Phase One at 100% (they all have to be 100% or you get to watch the video and take it again, ha ha).

It now says: You have no assignments. (Phases 1-3 are all seven day minimums before the next set of videos and quizzes will come up.) My next set of training materials should show up Thursday or Friday and I can start on those.

DSTURBD

Where do you do these tests? Do you have a laptop or tablet?

Passed my last test for Phase One at 100% (they all have to be 100% or you get to watch the video and take it again, ha ha).

It now says: You have no assignments. (Phases 1-3 are all seven day minimums before the next set of videos and quizzes will come up.) My next set of training materials should show up Thursday or Friday and I can start on those.

DSTURBD

Awesome.

Where do you do these tests? Do you have a laptop or tablet?

Hey there Scott,

Yeah, they're on-line and I have my lap top with a USB modem from Verizon. 4G speed just about anywhere!! Works great. I have used some of the free wifi at different places just to save my data, but usually end up using mine as it is so much faster. I especially don't want to take chances with my training stuff getting lost in cyber space because of a sketchy connection!!!

DSTURBD