your rookie mistakes
#12
08-05-2012, 03:16 AM
Biggest mistake was believing anything the recruiter told me about all the extras I'd get paid for or the miles I'd get.
Second was buying a CB. @ Mal...I always eat breakfast for dinner.
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#13
08-05-2012, 03:25 AM
breakfast is the only thing a truck stop can cook (hot turkey sandminches (i spell it that way) too) .
CB's are good on the road but at truck stops "stoooopid" Biggest mistake? not getting my authority right away! so much better with it! 
#15
08-05-2012, 04:14 AM
no... actually, maybe my first mistake was I taught myself.
I studied the state pamphlet and passed the exams for class A, tanker and hazmat endorsements. I studied one day, took the exams the next day. I got a relative of mine to show me the basics with a couple hours of backing and shifting. I was able to get a state evaluator at a local Star Rental where they will rent the rig and insure you for the exam...$250. I flunked the first try... did all the practical exams in the yard, but couldn't handle the shifting on the road exam. Went and practiced shifting a little more and took the exam again... $250 and passed. Total CDL $500 ... calling me a driver now... priceless. lol
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#16
08-05-2012, 04:38 AM
Self-taught is hard to do now due to insurance. I got my Chauffer liscense in 1977 but had to go to school 2 years ago when I went back to driving.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson- Democratic-Republican That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Abraham Lincoln "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
#17
08-05-2012, 10:09 AM
Biggest Rookie mistake I made was getting together with my EX-wife. However when it came to OTR Driving Biggest one I made would have had to have been going to work for a Bottom Feeding company instead with a shiny Large Car insead of going where my heart said was a better company.
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