MaceFremonti
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CDL skills/pretrip test is 2nd week of April.....earliest appointment that I could get. Gives me a few weeks to get everything rock solid.
Anyone REGRET going to feeders?
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MaceFremonti
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Passed my CDL test...next up is the Production Week!
Congrats! Hopefully you'll have a sup that knows his stuff. Pay attention and learn!
Old International
Now driving a Sterling
Mace- It's just like riding a bike. Do the same thing every time, and you won't forget anything. And if the little voice goes off in the back of your head, go out and check, no matter what. I know I look like an ass, but I have stopped doing my paperwork at the hub, gone out and made sure I pulled the yellow valve. The yellow valve is your friend.
MaceFremonti
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LOL That's funny because on the way home after returning the equipment to UPS I was thinking the same thing.....did I pull it or not??!!!???
Johney
Pineapple King
I gain 5 pounds just taking a week vacation.
ibleedbrown
Well-Known Member
i wondered that too, with the demands of being a package car driver, how the hell do some people get fat? i understand how the feeder drivers get fat, but a package car driver? if you gain more than 5 pounds as a PCD that should be means for an immediate week long ride along lol!!!
The MD test is pretty crazy, who parallel parks a feeder?
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Probably because some feeder drivers are going back into package. Just saying!
BSWALKS
Fugitive From Reality
Nah. More likely some managers going into driving, because they could use the raise.
Old International
Now driving a Sterling
You have to in Ga. I passed the the parallel park test by 1/4". That is how close I came to the cone without hitting it.
In SC, no parallel park, but you have to make a 90º sight side back into a white line(supposed to be a dock) without going over the 1' wide line. Oh, you only get 1 pull up.
balland chain
Well-Known Member
I totally agree with Dracula, I was in package for 13 years. I passed up several feeder list during that time.. I finally decided to try it since package car had gotten so bad, and Hitlers brother was my supervisor..( yeah, I am jewish, and had big problems with him) my only regret was not going in sooner.. The hours are tough, but I am a night owl so I like it...I am use to being towards the bottom of the seniority list with my 26 years, since the senior guys with 40 + years just dont want to leave..
104Feeder
Phoenix Feeder
We have several CPU's that create a parallel park situation. The fun one is in a retarded outdoor mall, blind side parallel with uppity Scottsdale trophy wife traffic trying to get run over.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Stubnose Killa
Active Member
Never be afraid to ask a senior driver a question no matter how trivial you may think it is and run a CB radio,you will learn more from other drivers than you will in training.
VA test is cake compared to that, you do a straight back and a curve back but you don't get any pullups.
MaceFremonti
Well-Known Member
I actually surprised myself...I went right in the parallel park first attempt with no pull up. Once you figure out the right angle to put the pup at going into the space it's pretty easy. Offset back is essentially the same maneuver but with a short straight line back at the end.
Couple of other guys who went through a different feeder class than I did both failed their skills test last week. Apparently they both made it through the straight line back but then one blew out on the offset and the other lost it on the parallel park. Touching a cone equals auto fail!
