Trucker Warren, From The Begining

Ken and Karen, furniture haulers from California, and Rick Armstrong, also from California, asked me if we had any weight on the truck as we were running up and down Cajon Pass today (thanks for the question). No, the trucks were empty. The scales were closed on the way up this morning and we were stopping short of the scales today at the Silverwood exit and then we would go back up to the 395 and stop at the Outpost truck stop. We had a different trainer today. He is usually only a yard instructor. He let me drive all the way to the top of the pass from the yard. Then everyone took turns going up and down the pass (again I was biting my nails). Then he had me drive back and we took old route 66, what a blast. The scales were open on the way down before we got to Route 66, and we went thru without incident.
I felt bad that I got 3 hours seat time today while everyone else only got 30 minutes, but hey, I'll take it. I've been cheated out of seat time the whole time I've been here because the others weren't getting the backing. I would be in the truck for 5 minutes, and then the others would take 20 minutes to complete a skill. I guess the instructor liked my driving enough to trust me in the early morning traffic and then he said he was going to see how good I was and took me down Route 66.
We also practiced the Alley Doc at the truck stop. This was real live backing, not cones. I got it perfect in the hole on the first shot with no pull ups. I'm not bragging (well, maybe a little), but the whole purpose of this blog is to share my experience.

Here is a picture of our trainer today (closest to the truck). We were at the Outpost at the 393 / 15 split.


Here is another shot of the truck stop. I found this combination vehicle of interest.


Sorry I didn't get better pictures of the truck stop.
By the way, The Outpost Cafe' has excellent food. We ate lunch there today. I use to do allot of dirt bike riding in this area and the Outpost was always high on the list of where to eat on the way home. I give it a hearty two thumbs up.

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