Most of what I learned before about 18 wheeler trucks were from movies and TV shows. BJ and the Bear. Smokey and the Bandit. I remember that episode of Alice where the brakes went out on the truck and Flo had to handle the truck around those hills. Or was that the Dukes of Hazzard. I don’t know.
Anyways we had that CDL (commerical drivers license) school at Antioch Church of Christ today. Most students were from Mt. Juliet. We are having to get class C drivers licenses if we want to drive the church van. New law comes into effect in 2 years.
The class itself was kinda long, but thorough. I thought they might have us out driving the van around in the church parking lot. Not so. We learned all about air brakes. Emergency brakes. How you can have seats in the aisles of buses as long as your transporting farm workers. I know all about driving 18 wheelers now.
I never knew so much material could be covered. There is apparently alot to driving trucks and buses.
I did notice something sorta strange in the church directory. In the formal picture…some lady was holding a picture of (apparently) her dead husband. He’s with her in spirit…and apparently on photographic paper. Just not in person. Maybe he died just a few weeks before the picture was taken and the lady was still grieving over it. Still, it appeared to me to be over the top…per say.