To Roadmaster In Millington,TN,I Go!!!!!!!!!

I understand your feeling on this. I am very much similiar. I will tell you this, you have to find a way inside of you to take things a bit easier and put them into proper perspective. There are times in our lives things do not go as we planned or percieved they should have. It happens. Never let it disable you, look how you can make necessary changes and continue forward.

There will be things going forward in hiring, training, and ongoing that will go wrong, bad, or really irrate you. You will have to look, listen and evaluate how to overcome it. If you dwell on it you will not clearly see how to move forward.

Any day you do NOT hit or tear up anything is still a winning day!!!!

PJ your response is perfect. I still have alot to overcome in the upcoming weeks and beyond. The trials are far from over,I definitely know for sure. But like you said I can either let a rough moment defeat me or I can take notes,learn from 'em and move on. Giving up is definitely not an option. From when I started my second week of school,I wanted to give up because I was a slow learner. Heck it took 2 weeks for me to to learn straight back and offset. Took 3 weeks to learn the 90. So after I heard the dreaded "You're done,you took to many pull ups." I was completely shattered and dumbfounded. After failing the manager let me go home because she saw how devastated I looked she let me go home for the day. The upcoming days I only practice for my 90s (also put in for my straight back and offset to refresh). After I got better with my 90,my manager hands me a piece of paper to sign off on my test date which was scheduled for 09/22/20 @ 7AM.

Got there early the morning of my test. Sat in my truck to clear my mind and went up to sign in until a classmate ran up to me to tell me the examiner once to see me. As I was walking up to the building,one of the instructors tells me I'm late for my exam. I tell him I was here the entire time (made it to the school around 6:30AM.) Me and my classmate go to the back of the building to meet our examiners. When I say while we sat there watching them get things ready,we was BEYOND NERVOUS.

Sat for about 10mins and headed out. While we walked the pad,there were other students wishing us luck. As the four of us are getting closer to our trucks. The anxiety starts kicking in. I hopped in the truck,let air pressure build up to the governor cut out and started my exam with straight line backing. Took one pull up for that because I was closing in to my left and if I would have steered left my tractor would have hit one of the cones. But passed straight line with the help of my 1 free pull up. Now comes my offset. Had the set up great. Took advantage of my G.O.A.Ls. And had it perfectly in the box. Now I'm on my last backing manuver. The same one that ended my exam the last time. I was extremely nervous but still had confidence. I did the carousel around the test pad to position myself for the 90. I paused for a minute looked at this huge freaken crowd of students watching me along with an instructor. So NOW IM BEYOND nervous. So now I'm looking out the window of my trailer and my examiner. I make a hard right. Soon as I feel that I'm in the 90 position I stop,I than turn my wheels to the left until my rear bumper on my trailer is about to almost cover the first right cone. I stop set my breaks,put it in neutral and get out to check my position.

I count my steps from second cone to the middle of the box. Ok,I'm seeing my marker light is too my left so I can definitely put in my hard left. I get back in make a hard left. I see the examiner back away which is a good sign. Than BOOM. He starts walking up and blows the whistle with his fist in the air and points to the right. I tell myself that I'm out on my right side. So I pull up straight 8-12 feet,stop and turn my wheels to the right backing up. I see him backing up which is good. While in the box. I get out again to make sure my rear end was inside the box. I was literally a foot away. I get back in,back it up and blow my horn. The scariest thing that happened was when he checked around the tractor and trailer and got back on my side,he was standing there for a hot second. Than gave me two thumbs up!!!!!!! I WAS SO FREAKEN HAPPY YALL!!!!!!!!!!

When he entered the truck he told me I had the last exam. He told me to stop second guessing myself and trust what I see.

So now we're off to driving. Drove the city streets and the intersection. I came close TWICE to an automatic fail. One for nearly hitting a curve and over for almost running a red light. But all and all I DID IT!!!! I PASSED!!!! This has been a very wild journey but with encouragement,prayer,and perseverance,giving up was definitely not option.

You did it, now your on the same level field with all of us, you have a cdl in your pocket. What will make that field tip your way is yourself. Have a can do attitude, stay calm and do the best job possible and you will be heads and shoulders above many many others.

I rarely say alot here about what I’m doing, but I’ll share a tiny bit with you and anyone that reads this. Brett talks all the time about attitude making the big difference. He is spot on.

Everyone knows i drive for a large company, no secret who. What alot of folks don’t realize is the company has two completely seperate sides. Corporate side and affilate carrier side. The affilates are enities all their own. They are in complete control of their freight. I am a corporate assigned driver. 11 months ago I started pulling almost exclusively for a large affilate. They welcomed me in because they know me, I used to drive for them. I have a very good long standing relationship there. They don’t have to do anything for me, but yet they bend over backwards to take care of me. The reason they do is because of my attitude and work ethic.

I share this to illustrate that you will be highly successful in this industry if you do the right things, have a great attitude, and treat people right.

I'm sorry but I just had to screen shot your comment. I want to definitely enter the trucking world with a can do attitude. I will definitely have bad days but as long as I keep in my mind on why I joined this industry (because it was a dream that came to life,that I always wanted to do since I was a child) than I'll be extremely ok. Just the very thought of getting paid to do something you love to do is completely amazing. Heck,I probably forget that I get paid to do this sometimes haha. But will definitely keep my can do attitude in this career!!

Oh & if you don't mind me saying. Getting my CDL was the most hardest thing I ever had to fight for to obtain. Will most definitely treat my CDL greatly like my life depends on it MOST DEFINITELY!!