well , myself i never went to semi driver training but i did learn from the OLD GUYS . When i was in high School i worked for a vary large construction company , started out with mowing the grass , cleaning the office and the shop and as time went on i learned more skills . I was wokring on cleaning parts one day and the man that sort watched over me said come on i need you to go with me , back in them OLD days when we moved big stuff you did not call and get and escort what ya needed back then was a FLAGMAN to ride in the cab and when needed for traffic control you were to jump out an start waving your little red flag and control traffic. It was like OH WOW i get to ride in the BIG MACK and for over two years when i was not in school and at work i became the OFFICIAL FLAGMAN and rode everywhere . Then one day old John and i were on a jobsite fuel tank move , we had just winched this 10000 gallon tank on the trailer and got out of SOhio's stock yard where we would get the huge skid mounted tanks from and got up on the road when old John pulled off to the side and stopped , thinking that we had a chain or two come loose i jumped out grabbed the cheater pipe and went checking chains , after checking every chain i walked back up to the passenger side and went to get in and here is John setting in my seat , standing on the ground with probably the dumbest look on my face Old John says ya have done rode long enough it's now your turn to take us home . So with knees shaking hand trembling heart racing i got behind the wheel of that 1957 B61 Mack's steering wheel and became a truck driver only missed one shift but recovered from it with out stopping on a old five and four twin stick . Learned at and early age how to drive hauling loads up to 150000 lbs anything over that was Old Johns job with the mighty AUTOCAR the big truck . We learned on the OLD roads as we were just getting cranked up on building the new fourlanes . Working there was better then six years of collage as i learned far more and wore many different hats and even had my own company truck , i could push a broom with the best , i could run anything on tires or tracks i could drive any truck except the BIG Auto Car as that was John's i could weld with the best and twist a wrench and rebuild a dozer from the ground up. When driving a big truck i will tell you like i was told , always think of it as flyen a Plane and always keep and eye out for other planes around you ALL THE TIME and ALWAYS be looking for a good place to land . And OH BTW SEMIS can not stop on a dime and give back CHANGE.
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