5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | So you go and you get your CDL. How is that experience? |
0:06.0 | Man, so that experience was, it was different. But I liked it because I was already an owner. |
0:14.0 | So it was like I was ahead of everybody else. Everybody else was talking about, oh, I can't wait to own a truck. |
0:19.0 | I can't know. They were talking about I can't wait to get a truck. To get a truck was talking I can't wait to get a truck to get a truck and you already there I was |
0:22.4 | already there you got you got you got you got you got you got you got too |
0:25.4 | got you got too yeah it's like you were working towards something it's like once I |
0:28.7 | get to see yeah I got it's up in this truck and I'm ready to go I didn't even want to |
0:32.3 | jump in the truck I just wanted to stop paying a guy who was doing it for me. That's all I did. |
0:38.3 | I wanted at that point, so I just wanted to stop paying him. |
0:42.3 | But then as I went, I wanted to gain more interest, more knowledge into the industry. |
0:48.3 | So the only way I could do that was to go undercover as an actual driver. |
0:53.3 | So once I got out of CDL school, I ended up going to |
0:57.9 | work for KLM for like a month. So I went over the road for like four weeks with my trainer, and she |
1:05.0 | still calls me to this day. Yeah? Yeah. What did you learn there at that time? A lot. |
1:10.4 | Yeah? A lot. Okay. That was the real, real trucking at that point. It wasn't paperwork anymore. We was out on the open road, no bathrooms, open hills, mountains. We drove from Atlanta up to Hershey, Pennsylvania. |
1:28.5 | It was beautiful. |
1:29.6 | Very beautiful. |
1:32.3 | That was my favorite part of the whole experience. Because I could see different places that I had never been before and see different sites I've never seen. |
1:39.2 | And it was a breath of fresh air from being out of corporate. |
1:43.3 | Right. |
1:43.5 | I gravitated towards it. |
1:46.3 | Mm. |
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