We are now beyond orientation, etc and into the actual course sork. We started the week by reading an Introduction to Trucking in our textbook. After lunch, we went out to the shop and were familiarized with the various tractors and were instructed on general shop procedures.
Yesterday we read about vehicle controls, etc then went out to the trucks to familiarize ourselves with the controls on the trucks we actually will be working with.
Today we went over coupling/uncoupling, then out to the shop again to "pre-trip" the tractors and start them up and observe the indicators. Our instructor then demonstrated both the right way and several wrong ways to couple/uncouple. We get to try our hands at it tomorrow.