#fvtc

I’m already in my last week of trucking school. I’m honestly a little torn between feeling excited and sad. I’m sad because I really love this program at Fox Valley Tech, my classmates, and these amazing, super-patient instructors. I’ve had such a great experience learning to drive a semi truck that I kind of wish I could learn all over again… except I can’t… because I think they’ve done a pretty…

Your average semi truck can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds, and are generally somewhere around 70ish feet long. Truck drivers face all different kinds of weather conditions, traffic hazards, and are usually on a time crunch to get their load somewhere by a certain time. Even driving super-slow in adverse weather conditions, there is always a chance this long and heavy truck could lose traction…

Home sweet home... on wheels.

Adam is heading out on his first solo run early tomorrow morning, so when I picked him up tonight he was in ourtruck! I got to jump in and look around. He was on the phone taking care of some work stuff as I poked around, opened cabinet doors, checked out our tiny refrigerator, laid on the bed, checked out the gauges and switches, and sat in the drivers seat…

It’s been a whirlwind these past few weeks. Things have been moving right along at school. I’m getting new routes that take me to new places, driving new trucks, trying new backing techniques and practicing old ones, and getting miles on. I actually had kind of a rough day at class today, so I want to write about that a little bit, but I’ll get to that.

In between all the school stuff going…