Finally Got A Trainer...be Careful What You Wish For

After waiting a week at home in Florida it seemed like I had been put on the back burner. I have a friend that lives in North Carolina so I took it upon myself to call Knight Transportation and ask if it would be easier to find me a trainer if I was in NC rather than Southwest Florida. They said yes, if I didn't mind. I waited another week in NC and they got me assigned to a trainer out of the Charlotte terminal.

I met him Monday morning and we set off. I hadn't seen a truck in two weeks and wouldn't you know our first trip was to Connecticut. That's right, first day out and I got to drive through DC and NYC. It wasn't as terrifying as I had built it up in my mind and my trainer is great.

Im really enjoying it and glad I stuck it out through all the delays in the training program I ran into. If all goes well I will be in my own truck in a couple weeks and the training snags will just be a memory.

Thanks to everyone here for all of the great information and encouragement you provide, I honestly dont know if I would have made it past the starting gate if I hadnt found this website.

Thanks to everyone here for all of the great information and encouragement you provide, I honestly dont know if I would have made it past the starting gate if I hadnt found this website.

Too cool!

Jopa

Good deal. There's another fella on here who waited a few extra days for his trainer and ended up going over a mountain for his first run! It's kinda like being thrown into a pool when you're a kid--sink or swim time! hehe! Like you, I'm really nervous about East coast runs, so I'm glad it worked out well for you.

Yap, the old "hurry up and wait" thing in trucking. You're either running so hard your hair is on fire or you're sitting around doing nothing until you're about bored to death. There isn't much in the way of in between it seems. But there's no substitute for patience and adaptability out there. You might sit around for 10 hours waiting on an assignment, bored to death, and then suddenly that Qualcomm starts beeping and you feel like a fireman when the whistle goes off - gotta go go go!!!!

Good luck Doug!

Hang in there, you will probably have a few moments where you will be wondering "what have I got myself into?", but just keep at it. Things will get better as time goes by. I wanted to throw my hands up and quit several times with my trainer, but I couldn't be happier now.

Over the mountain sounds like me. Trip one was Columbus oh to Raleigh my gods the wv turnpike at night with rain? I was terrified.

My second day with a trainer, I was hauling a curtain side with 40K + full of bricks. We headed to Chicago so I got to do the curvy roads at the both of WV mountains. Fun times. Good luck out there and be safe.