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Friday, June 10, 2011
Today is the day..
My bus leaves at 7:30pm tonight to go to Wisconsin for training.
All my stuff is packed (I hope) and the last thing I need to bring is in the dryer. In about an hour or less I will be loading up and heading out to Daytona Beach to find the greyhound station and get my ticket and everything set.
I am nervous and excited at the same time. I don't really look forward to leaving for the amount of time that I am, but that is something that I just have to get used to. Hopefully when I look back at these entries I will smile and think myself foolish. I would like to remind myself that you have the benefit of current knowledge and experience of things already past. Where are the present I currently do not. This is a big unknown for me and most people fear the unknown. I don't really "fear" it, but I am wary of it.
My next entries will be from my phone. I have tried to secure a way to charge my phone while on the bus. We have this little battery pack that allows you to charge things on the go. I had that bugger plugged in for 2 days just to be sure it was fully charged. So look for pictures and possibly videos coming up.
I know I am going to do a few education entries in the future. One of which will be a step by step pre-trip inspection of the truck. Should prove to be interesting. Which reminds me, I need to grab some rags for that.
See you all on the travel side.
All my stuff is packed (I hope) and the last thing I need to bring is in the dryer. In about an hour or less I will be loading up and heading out to Daytona Beach to find the greyhound station and get my ticket and everything set.
I am nervous and excited at the same time. I don't really look forward to leaving for the amount of time that I am, but that is something that I just have to get used to. Hopefully when I look back at these entries I will smile and think myself foolish. I would like to remind myself that you have the benefit of current knowledge and experience of things already past. Where are the present I currently do not. This is a big unknown for me and most people fear the unknown. I don't really "fear" it, but I am wary of it.
My next entries will be from my phone. I have tried to secure a way to charge my phone while on the bus. We have this little battery pack that allows you to charge things on the go. I had that bugger plugged in for 2 days just to be sure it was fully charged. So look for pictures and possibly videos coming up.
I know I am going to do a few education entries in the future. One of which will be a step by step pre-trip inspection of the truck. Should prove to be interesting. Which reminds me, I need to grab some rags for that.
See you all on the travel side.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
One more day...
Its a day before my trip and I think I am going to jump out of my skin due to nerves.
I am confident that I can do the job and pass the training requirement that are set in front of me. I think that it is just the fact that I have been fighting for this for so ling this year that now that the reality has finally come about, I am simply overwhelmed by it.
I put off packing until today and I think I have just about everything I need, I will be going over my check sheet one more time before the end of the night. I am a mix of anxious and terrified right now, not really sure what to do even if there is anything I can do about it All I really feel like doing is putting everything off until the last minute and be consumed in the rush of things so I don't have to think about it.
As deliciously tempting as that may seem, realistically I can't succumb to that temptation. I will be hopping on a one way bus ride to Wisconsin tomorrow, if I am not absolutely sure that I have everything that I need to bring with me, then I will be shit out of luck and will have to scramble to fix it if I can. Yet even that seems appealing, I won't have to think, just react to the emergency.
Fixing issues is all I have ever done, now I will be doing a service job again for the first time in years on a grander scale than I have before. My workplace with be the entire United States and parts of Canada. Calling in sick, not really an option but I have to be damn honest with myself that I am sick so I am not a danger to myself or others. There are a lot of unanswered questions in my mind that will be answered in time, the key for me to master now is to be patient and not stress about things I don't have control over yet. Soon I will have my answers, soon my adventures will start, soon.
Until then, I have to be patient and wait. Relax as best as I can and prepare myself to be open with the information that will be coming to me in the next month. This is a start of a new beginning for me, a chance to really make things work and take the next step in life. It will be hard work and I will miss those whom I care about. I have goals and dreams I want to achieve and God willing, I will be able to make something worthwhile for once.
I am confident that I can do the job and pass the training requirement that are set in front of me. I think that it is just the fact that I have been fighting for this for so ling this year that now that the reality has finally come about, I am simply overwhelmed by it.
I put off packing until today and I think I have just about everything I need, I will be going over my check sheet one more time before the end of the night. I am a mix of anxious and terrified right now, not really sure what to do even if there is anything I can do about it All I really feel like doing is putting everything off until the last minute and be consumed in the rush of things so I don't have to think about it.
As deliciously tempting as that may seem, realistically I can't succumb to that temptation. I will be hopping on a one way bus ride to Wisconsin tomorrow, if I am not absolutely sure that I have everything that I need to bring with me, then I will be shit out of luck and will have to scramble to fix it if I can. Yet even that seems appealing, I won't have to think, just react to the emergency.
Fixing issues is all I have ever done, now I will be doing a service job again for the first time in years on a grander scale than I have before. My workplace with be the entire United States and parts of Canada. Calling in sick, not really an option but I have to be damn honest with myself that I am sick so I am not a danger to myself or others. There are a lot of unanswered questions in my mind that will be answered in time, the key for me to master now is to be patient and not stress about things I don't have control over yet. Soon I will have my answers, soon my adventures will start, soon.
Until then, I have to be patient and wait. Relax as best as I can and prepare myself to be open with the information that will be coming to me in the next month. This is a start of a new beginning for me, a chance to really make things work and take the next step in life. It will be hard work and I will miss those whom I care about. I have goals and dreams I want to achieve and God willing, I will be able to make something worthwhile for once.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Its a GO!
I got the call today. I am to start orientation next Monday in Wisconsin.
I will be going through a new training program that is broken up into 2 steps. It will be 7 days of orientation training which will include a combination of road driving, close quarters maneuvering, and classroom curriculum which will consist of logging techniques, trip planning, satellite communication training company policies and procedure and protective driving.
Basically, Truck Driver Training school all over again except condensed into 1 weeks time including a driving test and open book exam.
After that I get a day off to reset my hours a bit and then move into phase 2 of training which is the Over the road training. The training is up to 13 days over the road after which I get to do another CDL eval test and open book exam.
Once that's all done, I get my own truck and trailer and first assignment.
Easy peasy...
My first goal is to get there and then worry about things as they arise. Here is to hoping that I will not screw up.
I will be going through a new training program that is broken up into 2 steps. It will be 7 days of orientation training which will include a combination of road driving, close quarters maneuvering, and classroom curriculum which will consist of logging techniques, trip planning, satellite communication training company policies and procedure and protective driving.
Basically, Truck Driver Training school all over again except condensed into 1 weeks time including a driving test and open book exam.
After that I get a day off to reset my hours a bit and then move into phase 2 of training which is the Over the road training. The training is up to 13 days over the road after which I get to do another CDL eval test and open book exam.
Once that's all done, I get my own truck and trailer and first assignment.
Easy peasy...
My first goal is to get there and then worry about things as they arise. Here is to hoping that I will not screw up.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
The end is near?
So I did actually contact the trucking company all week.
As of the last Friday before the date of this post, the company is now waiting on the clinic that did my physical to sign off on a 1 year medical card.
What this means is that I know where said clinic is. If by Wednesday they haven't done anything I may drive my happy ass down to said clinic and sit in their waiting room all day until the Doctor or Nurse Practitioner gets on the freaking ball and signs a couple of papers and faxes them back.
I am beyond patient at this point, I DARE say that I have been down right tolerant. Everyday things are boring now, I can't hold an interest into anything. This tells me that I am ansi to go out and do something, ya know, like WORK. Or some foolish thing like that where I get paid after..
I am getting tired of every Sunday thinking that this will be the week I get to know when I start.
I am hoping to high heaven that this will be finally that week.
As of the last Friday before the date of this post, the company is now waiting on the clinic that did my physical to sign off on a 1 year medical card.
What this means is that I know where said clinic is. If by Wednesday they haven't done anything I may drive my happy ass down to said clinic and sit in their waiting room all day until the Doctor or Nurse Practitioner gets on the freaking ball and signs a couple of papers and faxes them back.
I am beyond patient at this point, I DARE say that I have been down right tolerant. Everyday things are boring now, I can't hold an interest into anything. This tells me that I am ansi to go out and do something, ya know, like WORK. Or some foolish thing like that where I get paid after..
I am getting tired of every Sunday thinking that this will be the week I get to know when I start.
I am hoping to high heaven that this will be finally that week.
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