On June 21st in the afternoon I drove the 160 or so miles to Drumwright Oklahoma to start my CDL training. My Training is beginning with the CDL permit prep class, which is two days long, then I will take the permit tests and drive home, and will come back Tuesday of next week to start the real truck driving course.
I got to my lodging at the Driller Inn at about 5:45 last night, unpacked, then drove to the school to kinda check it out. After that I ate dinner, hung out in the house for a while and went to bed. Not really much happened. My house mate did not get in until late so I didn't see him until this morning.
This morning, June 22nd, I headed over to the school at 6:45 as I had been instructed in the email, and found out that I was fifteen minutes early and the east entrance, which I had been instructed to use was still locked. My house mate found me wondering around and brought me over to the south entrance and I met my instructor Mr. Towner. My class is made up of four guys including myself, and two girls.
Initially we were introduced to the school, given some paper work to fill out then sent out to a tiny clinic in town to get the DOT physical done. That was pretty painless and easy. After that the instructor gave us a tour of the school building, he would have given us a tour of the course too, but the DOT was all over the place and he didn't want to be in the way. After the tour we came back to the classroom and started on the airbrakes portion of the CDL manual. We stopped for lunch around noon, and when we came back in at one o clock we played with the air brake simulator, finished up the air brakes chapter and moved on to the combination vehicles section. Each section of the course includes us reading the manual, then a video, then the instructor quizzing us on the section and expounding on it.
Class ended around four o clock and I headed back to the house. There really isn't much more to tell. I will probably get better at this blogging thing in time, I hope to include more pictures and maybe even videos in future posts. That is it for now folks, Lord willing I will post again tomorrow.
God bless,
Flame of Jah
I got to my lodging at the Driller Inn at about 5:45 last night, unpacked, then drove to the school to kinda check it out. After that I ate dinner, hung out in the house for a while and went to bed. Not really much happened. My house mate did not get in until late so I didn't see him until this morning.
This morning, June 22nd, I headed over to the school at 6:45 as I had been instructed in the email, and found out that I was fifteen minutes early and the east entrance, which I had been instructed to use was still locked. My house mate found me wondering around and brought me over to the south entrance and I met my instructor Mr. Towner. My class is made up of four guys including myself, and two girls.
Initially we were introduced to the school, given some paper work to fill out then sent out to a tiny clinic in town to get the DOT physical done. That was pretty painless and easy. After that the instructor gave us a tour of the school building, he would have given us a tour of the course too, but the DOT was all over the place and he didn't want to be in the way. After the tour we came back to the classroom and started on the airbrakes portion of the CDL manual. We stopped for lunch around noon, and when we came back in at one o clock we played with the air brake simulator, finished up the air brakes chapter and moved on to the combination vehicles section. Each section of the course includes us reading the manual, then a video, then the instructor quizzing us on the section and expounding on it.
Class ended around four o clock and I headed back to the house. There really isn't much more to tell. I will probably get better at this blogging thing in time, I hope to include more pictures and maybe even videos in future posts. That is it for now folks, Lord willing I will post again tomorrow.
God bless,
Flame of Jah
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