Training Day

Here we go, of in to the wild robin egg blue yonder. Joy is leaving this morning, and I will follow tomorrow. Last week we did are driving tests for Gordon Trucking. Same type of truck that we were all were trained in at CDS, same miles too. The one exception is that we had 25,000 lbs. of freight in the trailer. I was thinking that the truck seemed kind of gutless. After that they sent us of to a Motel, and set us up with 3 square meals. Orientation was long 11 hours of special speakers. All of the political issues were covered that any large company would put you through and then the added trucking part as well. For the real newbie’s, we wont be back for the rest of orientation until our training is over in 28 day’s. They sent us home for the rest of the week, and told us to wait for calls from are trainers. Joy’s trainer is a veteran driver of 13 years, and she will be taking Joy on a large triangle route, Seattle, LA, Salt Lake and back. Sounded like that they will be primarily be hauling Home Depot stuff. I am going to be trained by a driver that has been with Gordon for about 3 years. He is also a retired cop. He told me that we will haul everything, and that we will haul it everywhere this side of the Mississippi. We are both very excited and kind of freaked out at the same time. So here we go, wish us luck…