Celadon/Quality Drivers

Thank you!! I have been working on my 90 degree back. Monday I will have to test into Celadon. I will have to do a 90 degree, and some driving. I ended my time at Quality Drivers today and Orientaion starts monday. I will also do a Physical for Celadon. I had so much fun doing the 90. wathing my tandoms drag like that was awesome!!

Speaking of tandems , just wait until you take a load to a CAT Scale (on your own) for the first time, and you are overweight on your drive tires and your tandems are slid all the way forward. What do you do then? I already know the answer, because I had to do it.

Dave

I see a female Celadon driver trying to park here at a Pilot in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Dave

I had so much fun doing the 90. watching my tandems drag like that was awesome!!

There were several times over the years that I had found myself in an area that was actually too small to get turned around in the normal way. Well if you jackknife the truck hard enough while backing up and you get the angle past 90 degrees, the trailer will actually start rolling forward as the tractor is rolling backward. You have to be really careful not to hit the side of the trailer with the cab of the tractor! But I've gotten out of a few spots that way. It's not something you really want to be doing if you can avoid it, but it's interesting to watch.

I had so much fun doing the 90. watching my tandems drag like that was awesome!!

There were several times over the years that I had found myself in an area that was actually too small to get turned around in the normal way. Well if you jackknife the truck hard enough while backing up and you get the angle past 90 degrees, the trailer will actually start rolling forward as the tractor is rolling backward. You have to be really careful not to hit the side of the trailer with the cab of the tractor! But I've gotten out of a few spots that way. It's not something you really want to be doing if you can avoid it, but it's interesting to watch.

I will get to find all this out soon. I should have a trainer soon. My orientation ends thursday, so I should have one on or before the following thursday. I am so excited!!

I had so much fun doing the 90. watching my tandems drag like that was awesome!!

There were several times over the years that I had found myself in an area that was actually too small to get turned around in the normal way. Well if you jackknife the truck hard enough while backing up and you get the angle past 90 degrees, the trailer will actually start rolling forward as the tractor is rolling backward. You have to be really careful not to hit the side of the trailer with the cab of the tractor! But I've gotten out of a few spots that way. It's not something you really want to be doing if you can avoid it, but it's interesting to watch.

I will get to find all this out soon. I should have a trainer soon. My orientation ends thursday, so I should have one on or before the following thursday. I am so excited!!

Can I ask you a question about this school? Do they scream at you like Ive heard about the others? I can do this and am very confident but I cannot guarantee that I can deal with someone screaming in my face that would make me more nervous and cause me to wreck. What are your thoughts?

Pebbles will be able to tell you how her instructors have treated her at that school specifically, but I'll say this about training in general...

Approach it as you would if you were going into the Army. It's like boot camp. There are going to be a lot of things that are less than ideal when it comes to training. It could be anything from the food available to the personalities to the equipment to the hours they keep - could be all kinds of stuff. But the training is very short - only a few months at the most - and then you have a new career for the rest of your life.

So like I tell everyone - just get through it. Keep pushing forward and don't quit. I mean, I totally agree with you - there's no reason in the world for instructors to be screaming at students who are simply making honest mistakes and trying their best to learn. But some people are just jerks - that's just how it is. Hopefully you won't get anyone like that, but if you do, you certainly don't want one loud-mouth jerk keeping you from having a great new career.

But I promise you - no matter where you get your training there will be a lot of ups and downs and more than likely you'll consider quitting a few times along the way. Almost everyone does. Just stick it out and remember that training is only a short, temporary thing. Once you get through it you'll be out on your own and you won't have to deal with it anymore.

I had so much fun doing the 90. watching my tandems drag like that was awesome!!

There were several times over the years that I had found myself in an area that was actually too small to get turned around in the normal way. Well if you jackknife the truck hard enough while backing up and you get the angle past 90 degrees, the trailer will actually start rolling forward as the tractor is rolling backward. You have to be really careful not to hit the side of the trailer with the cab of the tractor! But I've gotten out of a few spots that way. It's not something you really want to be doing if you can avoid it, but it's interesting to watch.

I will get to find all this out soon. I should have a trainer soon. My orientation ends thursday, so I should have one on or before the following thursday. I am so excited!!

Can I ask you a question about this school? Do they scream at you like Ive heard about the others? I can do this and am very confident but I cannot guarantee that I can deal with someone screaming in my face that would make me more nervous and cause me to wreck. What are your thoughts?

I can personally relate to the "Military" thing because I did that and earned the T Shirt! But one thing that I had an advantage over the other recruits was that I came from a military family and that being said I knew they were going to yell, scream, and belittle me every chance they got. Its called mental conditioning. What I didn't know is that if I just did what I was told, didn't make excuses and worked hard I would NOT get yelled at which is what ended up happening so just follow that rule and you should come out just fine!

I took my Celadon road test and my 90 degree today and passed. yay me!!! I will finish my orientation wendsday and wait on a trainer. I cant stress this enough Quality Drivers, and the instructors are a great and very profession bunch. I have not been screamed at, they are very patient and work hard to get you were you need to be to test. I really enjoyed my time at Quality drivers.

I took my Celadon road test and my 90 degree today and passed. yay me!!! I will finish my orientation wendsday and wait on a trainer. I cant stress this enough Quality Drivers, and the instructors are a great and very profession bunch. I have not been screamed at, they are very patient and work hard to get you were you need to be to test. I really enjoyed my time at Quality drivers.

I am so very proud of you Pebbles!!! I will be headed there soon!! I am ready and prepared for a wonderful time just like you had... May 13 cannot come soon enough!

Congrats on passing the tests! I'm really glad Celadon is treating you well and things are moving along nicely for ya.