AIT Trucking Refresher wk 3

Well this past Sunday the 17th was my last day as a cab driver. It’s hardly worth mentioning and not something that I ever expected to appear in the annals of history, but its just another bad experience that I will take care never to repeat. Just calling cab driving an awful job would be a true understatement.

I discovered that on this very weekend A Cab has started a new policy of only allowing 9 hour shifts instead of usual 12 hour ones. So in a period of a few day, many of the old drivers have quit. Facts being as they are, it’s impossible to make a decent living as a cab driver any more. And at a company where you’re severely restricted, that makes it doubly hard. It’s easy being a cab driver? Just try it.

As for class, I did very well the first day on the range, and I was driving on the road the second. I wasn’t sure if I could remember how to sync the gears, and sure enough I was grinding. It is something only time and experience can master. I need the road time if I am going to succeed.

On of the guys that was in my class last week, up and quit. He was with me when I start on the range, but did not even make it past the first day. He had hip surgery, and was walking with a cane. A former A cab employee also, but he was having issues with the instructor, and could not take the constructive criticism.

I’m still having major transportation issues using the bus.

I just hope that next week goes better than this one.