Beginning New Career With PTL. (A Diary)

As of 8 am on May 22, I am no longer a trainee at PTL. I did about 5k miles with a trainer (an awesome guy, possibly a lifelong friend) whom I talk with most days still and is reccomending me to become a trainer when I'm ready. I did 26k of the 30k team miles in phase 2. My smallest check during training was $400 ish and my largest was 875$. (I did go home for 5days, that check was $75). I finished CDL school on 3-15, took test on 3-20. I started orientation on 3-24, hire date was 3-26 and went out with trainer on 3-28. Upgraded to p2 on 4-9 and started team driving with p2 partner on 4-16. Finished p2 on 5-2.

I am in Murray right now waiting on a solo truck. Should have one in the morning and am going to immediately put in for hometime. Changed my status to rookie solo driver.

I will no longer be updating this thread as training is finished. If anyone has any questions regarding training with PTL or the company in general feel free to ask here or send a PM. I will try to respond timely. Response will come here or in a PM depending upon the content of the response. Thanks for reading and replying and thanks to all of you have supported me.

Wow, Congratulations!

I've enjoyed following along with you Scott, you've got a great sense of humor, and I love the little ways you dealt with shippers and receivers. I'm all the time doing my best to outsmart them, and with the caliber of most of them, that's not extremely hard!

I wish you the best, and glad to hear your done with "sleeper berth". You'll do very well, just keep it safe, and pace yourself. Solo is different from teaming, but you'll do just fine.

CONGRATS!!!

I graduated Truck Driving Acadamy on October 10th. I hadn't done anything more in pursuit of a truck driving career until the night of November 12th. I woke up in the in the wee hours of the night and worked on an application. I got it sent off around 0800 in the morning. Before the evening meal, I had my transportation conformation to orientation.

I leave for Murray from Fort Worth on Tuesday to start orientation at PTL on Thursday.

I really appreciate the PTL Diary that Scott B. has provided. Anyone have any additional advice as I start this new journey in my life with Paschall Truck Lines?

Thanks to the creator and the moderators of TT. TT is an invaluable tool for entering into the trucking industry.

As of 8 am on May 22, I am no longer a trainee at PTL. I did about 5k miles with a trainer (an awesome guy, possibly a lifelong friend) whom I talk with most days still and is reccomending me to become a trainer when I'm ready. I did 26k of the 30k team miles in phase 2. My smallest check during training was $400 ish and my largest was 875$. (I did go home for 5days, that check was $75). I finished CDL school on 3-15, took test on 3-20. I started orientation on 3-24, hire date was 3-26 and went out with trainer on 3-28. Upgraded to p2 on 4-9 and started team driving with p2 partner on 4-16. Finished p2 on 5-2.

I am in Murray right now waiting on a solo truck. Should have one in the morning and am going to immediately put in for hometime. Changed my status to rookie solo driver.

I will no longer be updating this thread as training is finished. If anyone has any questions regarding training with PTL or the company in general feel free to ask here or send a PM. I will try to respond timely. Response will come here or in a PM depending upon the content of the response. Thanks for reading and replying and thanks to all of you have supported me.

Thanks Scott for all your insight!! A must read for everybody, very entertaining.

I start my orientation with PTL this coming Monday 8/17/2015 and really looking forward to it. Maybe I can keep a diary such as yours, but it certainly will not be written as well and not as funny.

Your a funny man with a keen sense of humor. I hope to get someone like you in P2.

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!

You wrote these posts a little over a year ago. . spent the evening reading all your posts and really enjoyed them. Are you still with PTL and are you still staying just as busy?