Day 8 of class

Today was kinda kick back day. Heard alot of stories, (lessons learned), did some of the classroom training on Drug Alchohol awareness, then had the recruiter from Gordon Trucking come in. Was supposed to be there at noon with pizza. Office manager called her at 12:15. She forgot, called in for the pizza and came over about 1pm. Gordon is actually alot like Interstate, family run, take care of drivers and teams a little better than average, and pay is comparable, but they have a strict no pet policy, so that eliminated them for us. Pizza was good tho! :)
More stories after lunch, untill Werner came at 3pm. That company is just a No for us. Low pay, too big, etc.
Dinner time we had to make a run to the store to take in a bike, then stop by and let Shadow out for a couple min, then back to school. We did Railroad crossing and hazard awareness tonite. By the way, after each section of classroom, we have to complete a test. So far so good!
The real fun came this afternoon. The needed to swap trailers between two units. I was first, instructor had me pull the release for first trailer, then get in and pull tractor out. After that he got in with me , and we made a little loop up and down the street. Shifted up, but kinda popped the clutch out a little hard. Everyone got a turn at this. Kim got some extra driving time cause the instructor scared the caca out of her the other day when went to start the truck for the first time, he yelled BOOOO just as she turned the key on. SOOOO FUNNY! So he felt he owed her!!
When everyone was done doing the loop, he had me back the tractor up to the other other trailer, I was off about a tire width first try, pulled up and back up right in line!!! Then he had Kim get in, and finish backing under and hooking up the trailer. The other 3 guys must've been thinking "teachers pets!" Oh well! We are really progressing faster than most there, and will start our drives next week, backing practice, shifting, etc.
The school here is really good for us. Great guys, good sence of humor, and will work with our schedule whatever that is.
We are going to meet one at the school tomorrow morning to get a little more practice on our pre trip inspections. He has to be there to do some work on a couple of the rigs.
He also recommended we look a company out of St George he used to drive for. They only have about 60 trucks so they know drivers by name instead of a number. VERY little turnover. He said they do have some teams, they run all 48 states with them, and thought it would be a good company for us. We'll take a look.