MY FIRST DAY
Joplin the day before I left for my Training Run.
Well it was a long wait and seemed to never get here. I finally got in the truck Sunday morning. My finisher wanted to get us out of town and away from the ice and snow, so he drove the first two hours or so and got us to Muskogee, OK. I took over and got behind the wheel and Jerry just said get us moving. He was great and let me make and recover from my mistakes on my own. We had great conversation and the day just quickly drifted by. I really was not thinking about what was ahead very much, but it was no time at all and I'm in Dallas, TX. I'm glad that this first day actually ended up being on Sunday. The traffic was fairly light and I got good experiance drifting through a big city and practicing my lane control. Just as I got on south side of Dallas ready to merge back onto I35 we hit a "break check".
That's trucker talk for all vehicles are stopped. So now I got a bit of practice at creeping along. I'm pretty good at creeping along and managed my way across three lanes of traffic and made my intended off ramp.
I thought Texas was wide open country mostly but was in for a rude awakeing as I traveled down I35. Austin, San Antonio, and even the little border town of Laredo are huge compared to what I thought they were. We checked into Laredo this morning and got out orders to deliver the trailer across town at a local wharehouse. I got to drop my first trailer in a fairly tight little yard they had next to the wharehouse. Actually put it into the last spot they had there in between a couple of other trailers. I know this is old hat to any other driver, but I was proud that I got this into a place where I could not get full school taught 45 degree setup.
More soon to come I'm sure. Stay tuned.
Living the Dream
Joplin the day before I left for my Training Run.Well it was a long wait and seemed to never get here. I finally got in the truck Sunday morning. My finisher wanted to get us out of town and away from the ice and snow, so he drove the first two hours or so and got us to Muskogee, OK. I took over and got behind the wheel and Jerry just said get us moving. He was great and let me make and recover from my mistakes on my own. We had great conversation and the day just quickly drifted by. I really was not thinking about what was ahead very much, but it was no time at all and I'm in Dallas, TX. I'm glad that this first day actually ended up being on Sunday. The traffic was fairly light and I got good experiance drifting through a big city and practicing my lane control. Just as I got on south side of Dallas ready to merge back onto I35 we hit a "break check".
That's trucker talk for all vehicles are stopped. So now I got a bit of practice at creeping along. I'm pretty good at creeping along and managed my way across three lanes of traffic and made my intended off ramp.
I thought Texas was wide open country mostly but was in for a rude awakeing as I traveled down I35. Austin, San Antonio, and even the little border town of Laredo are huge compared to what I thought they were. We checked into Laredo this morning and got out orders to deliver the trailer across town at a local wharehouse. I got to drop my first trailer in a fairly tight little yard they had next to the wharehouse. Actually put it into the last spot they had there in between a couple of other trailers. I know this is old hat to any other driver, but I was proud that I got this into a place where I could not get full school taught 45 degree setup.
More soon to come I'm sure. Stay tuned.
Living the Dream
posted by RickLynn | 11:09 AM
3 Comments:
I'm so PROUD of you,Honey, I'm glad you're safe and having a good time!! Missing you in the snow, ha,ha...Loving you forever and always! Belinda
Sounds like you are having FUN! Be careful!
Love you, Kelly
yo it does look like u are having fun....but it looks like from the pic u have taken the pic from the driver seat.....LOL
Glad u are having fun
get somewhere near and i'll buy ya a steak on the house
jerome
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