Given where trucks usually pick up from / deliver to, I can't see how that could possibly be comfortable...

Congrats, sir!

my driving test instructor was cool as fuck. im pretty sure he was in the old school navy. when i turned on the headlights like the school taught us to do when we hit the road he said why did you turn them on so i told him. he said turn those damned lights off if someone cant see something this big coming they deserve to get hit lmfao. also my double clutching consisted of pushing the clutch pedal just enough to look good and grabbing another gear lol.




if you take the road course in an automatic they put a restriction on your license where you drive automatic only. grats on passing though. im pretty sure i never legitly double clutched i would barely push the clutch and grab another gear.

That's all double clutching really is. Atleast how I wad taught. You press it in like an inch, releases it just enough to slide out, press in again and slides in. It was kind of a pita when someone would cut me off Nd turn right away, a lot happening at once and fast there hHa


And thanks

if thats all it takes to do an actual double clutch then its no different than shifting without imo. once you learn your shift points its no big deal. enjoy it while you can most companies are starting the switch over to autos. dont let anyone tell you that autos are garbage either my international at usa truck had an ultrashift eaton 10 speed and i drove it all over the east coast during winter and never had any problems.

are you working for a local company or an over the road or what? sorry if you already told us i dont remember.

The auto truck was ok. Like 13 gears though? It would be in 11th doing just regular city driving speeds. Really quick at what it did, wasn't terrible imo.

not working anywhere yet, I've got like 6 weeks left of my EI, and I'm enjoying camping and fishing every week/week end lol. My first eever EI claim, and I don't have to pay it back. I'm gunna enjoy this while I can.

is that like unemployment insurance? if so i dont blame you. any ideas on potential jobs? around here its kind of hard to get your foot in the door with no experience because the insurance companies are dicks (or smart)

once you get some experience you should go drive for that roberts company with the bright green and yellow truck/trailers with the archer dude on the side. get passport they come to the united states all the time.

This post was edited by JDH on Jun 27 2015 11:13am

I recommend doing short haul local work, you will make more and be home every night. OTR is garbage, never home, basically minimum wage, waiting to be loaded and unloaded for hours sometimes days. Local gigs are usually by the hour or by the load, not like 30 cents per mile you will make with no experience.

This.

I've seen more money made as a driver for a road construction company than an operator at times... By the hour, good benefits, and plenty of "city" work. A close second would be to contract for the railroads.

Crappy iPhone won't let me rotate the picture. Miss my Samsung

Pic taken this morning

This post was edited by TSL on Jun 30 2015 07:14am