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Research Paper On Truck Driving

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Throughout my high school career I always knew what I wanted to do. that was to become an airline pilot. With this dream in mind I had no way of paying for all of the certifications that go along with it. Then I was presented with the opportunity to go to Tri-County Technical Center(TCTC) for their commercial truck driving program. Now throughout the last semester I have obtained my Class B licence and working on my class A permit. That brings us to present day and my project. My project consists of learning about the inner workings of our detachable trailer at TCTC. When I say inner workings I mean, how to pre trip the trailer, how to load and unload, and attach and detach both sections. I will have a video in my slide show showing the the product …show more content…

this will be my main source of income for a good few years if not longer. If this falls through I will need to readjust my entire post high school plan. so as june the CDL in my pocket is my livelihood. for this reason, I am shaping my project around driving truck to better learn about what is to come in the near future. the question that I am looking to answer is: what kind of knowledge and skill does it take to use and operate a detachable trailer in the truck driving industry. The person that will help me with this learning will be my CDL instructor, Vicki Kimball. she will be showing me and teaching me everything I will need to know about the subject. Besides Vicki as my mentor I will be utilizing the CDL manual for rules and guidelines. The biggest resource that I have alvable to me is the tractor and the trailer that I will be using to demonstrate my skills. Without those two things I would not have a project. With all of this being said, the estimated cost of my project will be approximately $90. that is for my licence upgrade at the DMV, gas money traveling back and forth to bangor several times, and $20 for additional

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