OCTOBER 30, 2006
I wanted to updated this journal daily beginning with my first day of training. Well, I'm starting out a day late with that plan. LOL
First day of class Monday sort of started out being behind. We are here ready to go and the instructor is not! Just a bit of poor communication. That seems to be the norm for the trucking industry so I got of on the right foot I guess. They called an instructor to come in for the missing one. Today a few hours was spent watching some films/movies about safety and road rage. How do keep a three point contact to enter and exit the truck safely. This also applies to climbing on a load in the case of working with flat beds or anytime your feet must leave the ground. A couple of films on Road Rage and then a film on how to turn the truck and keep the trailer from running over everyone in the process. We learned to turn using the Square Out, Button Hook, Standard Right Turn, and the Short Button Hook. The rest of the class headed out to lunch, but those of us prehired with CFI stayed to give "integrity" interviews and enjoy lunch provided by CFI. They answered any questions we may have had about the company and what they expected out of us. This concluded our class room time and we headed out to the trucks.
Instructors showed us how to perform the PreTrip Inspection and then we were off. Driving the BIG RIG on the very first day!! We took turns with the instructor with us to talk us thru upshifting and then we were on our own. Three of us to a truck taking turns until about 5:00pm finished up the day.
OCTOBER 31, 2006
Trick or Treat
Happy Halloween!
Day Two...
Two hours of class room to learn a bit about HOS or hours of service and loging in our DOT required log books. A little bit of paper work and pay our tuition and then off to the trucks. Again the instructors went over pretrip inspections with us and then we were off on our own for most of the day. In the afternoon, our instructor introduced us to the art of down shifting. It is done differently then the upshifts and requires throttle control to hold the RPMs at the correct rev to allow the downshift.
Shift up, Shift down...Shift up, Shift down...Shift up, Shift down... Continue with right and left turn practice and shifting between the turns. I expect we did as much shifting as would be required for and entire trip to the west coast! LOL ... My left leg is beginning to complain a bit and is a bit tender in the upper thigh area from all the shifting. But keep in mind about the only thing I've done for the past few years is raise my legs with the recliner in front of the television. Hahahaha
Well tomorrow will introduce us to needed new talents. We start learning straight line backing.
Still dreaming
I wanted to updated this journal daily beginning with my first day of training. Well, I'm starting out a day late with that plan. LOL
First day of class Monday sort of started out being behind. We are here ready to go and the instructor is not! Just a bit of poor communication. That seems to be the norm for the trucking industry so I got of on the right foot I guess. They called an instructor to come in for the missing one. Today a few hours was spent watching some films/movies about safety and road rage. How do keep a three point contact to enter and exit the truck safely. This also applies to climbing on a load in the case of working with flat beds or anytime your feet must leave the ground. A couple of films on Road Rage and then a film on how to turn the truck and keep the trailer from running over everyone in the process. We learned to turn using the Square Out, Button Hook, Standard Right Turn, and the Short Button Hook. The rest of the class headed out to lunch, but those of us prehired with CFI stayed to give "integrity" interviews and enjoy lunch provided by CFI. They answered any questions we may have had about the company and what they expected out of us. This concluded our class room time and we headed out to the trucks.
Instructors showed us how to perform the PreTrip Inspection and then we were off. Driving the BIG RIG on the very first day!! We took turns with the instructor with us to talk us thru upshifting and then we were on our own. Three of us to a truck taking turns until about 5:00pm finished up the day.
OCTOBER 31, 2006
Trick or Treat
Happy Halloween!
Day Two...
Two hours of class room to learn a bit about HOS or hours of service and loging in our DOT required log books. A little bit of paper work and pay our tuition and then off to the trucks. Again the instructors went over pretrip inspections with us and then we were off on our own for most of the day. In the afternoon, our instructor introduced us to the art of down shifting. It is done differently then the upshifts and requires throttle control to hold the RPMs at the correct rev to allow the downshift.
Shift up, Shift down...Shift up, Shift down...Shift up, Shift down... Continue with right and left turn practice and shifting between the turns. I expect we did as much shifting as would be required for and entire trip to the west coast! LOL ... My left leg is beginning to complain a bit and is a bit tender in the upper thigh area from all the shifting. But keep in mind about the only thing I've done for the past few years is raise my legs with the recliner in front of the television. Hahahaha
Well tomorrow will introduce us to needed new talents. We start learning straight line backing.
Still dreaming
posted by RickLynn | 5:25 PM
1 Comments:
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