Today started out as expected, I was the only driver there, everyone else were taking their written tests at the DMV. With one on one instruction we were able to run through the skills tests quite quickly. I discovered that the parallel parking was a lot easier than I thought it would be. It turned out to be a variation of offset backing, which I had figured out yesterday.
Shortly after we finished the last skill, we got drenched with a quick moving down pour. We would have stayed dry if not for wanting to hit the restroom before leaving to pick up a student that had taken his test at the Heatherdowns branch. This gave me a decent amount of road driving time, especially after we stopped to pick him up I then got to drive on to Central, Centennial, and then back to the school for lunch.
After lunch we found one other student had made it back, the other was at an appointment for his eye, having gotten something blown in it yesterday. So we each got a truck, and were able to practice skills for the rest of the day. I also worked on my downshifting, since I had been missing the sweet spot during my road driving.
A former student that now is a trainer with Garner Trucking stopped by about mid afternoon. After talking to him for a little while I definitely feel that they would be a another good possibility for me. I will have to think about it for a bit, but I am still leaning towards Falcon Transport at this point. They both have good home time, and pay from the sounds of it, but I need to find out more about Garner before deciding.
Tomorrow looks to be another hot day, so I will definitely be using sun screen tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how many students are there, since we seem to lose one every few days.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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