Cr England Utah Starting On 1/3/2017

Moz, use ur daughters address. Change ur license over. I will probably get a post office box and send myself some mail with the license change. Patricia, you said you had 10 hrs of practice every day on the tarmac. You didn't have to share with 4, 8, or 12 other students? And they had automatics out there. Maybe that's why? Glad ur trainer is working out. We just went thru Georgia with the tornadoes. We had a blowout on a trailer tire, scared the bejesus out of us. Sounded like a bomb went off. No loss of steering control. That took a litttle over an hour to get fixed. Then later on we were stuck in traffic on I-75S, 45 minute behind where a tornado went thru and killed 5 people. God takes care of fools and truckers.

Sounds like you had a blast Nancy.

Same here 1 week wasn't enough to learn the basics let alone shift.

Ok day 1 is over. We had classroom time for the rest of the day. I know I'm going to get a lot of crap for stating this on here but I went with the automatic transmission training. Let me explain why....

I will be doing my otr 180 hours of training in an automatic. They have ppl training that have only been driving 4 to 6 months. I'm not saying anything negative about it, but I would rather train on what I'm going to be driving everyday just in case...

I talked over the pros and cons with my step dad. He owns a couple semi trucks and he said the whole industry will be switched over to automatic within the next 5 years. I will be with this company for at least a year. He said he would teach me and let me test with a stick if I needed to after my year is up.

Lastly... this is day 1 of school (which is a tuesday) we are expected to be ready for our actual cdl test by Monday or Tuesday which is 5 or 6 days away. I don't feel like that's enough time to learn how to drive a stick shift semi truck, pre trip and backing.

Tomorrow we spend time driving the trucks. I will update when I get time.

Hope you have been able to purchase a set of thermal underwear.