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It took three attempts and two examiners over eight days, but CDL or Bust student Joey Wilson Jr. passed his CDL exam Sept. 22 in Louisville, Kentucky.
“Usually three’s an unlucky number for me, but it was all right today,” the happy and
Joey Wilson Jr. got farther than he did the first time, but the 27-year-old former dump truck driver still was unable to pass his commercial driver license re-test opportunity on Sept. 19.
After failing the pre-trip third of the exam on
Joey Wilson Jr. woke up this morning expecting it to be one of the best days of his life. It didn’t turn out that way, however, in a case of he-said versus he-said with the first man having the authority over the second.
Wilson, one of
After more than three weeks of 10-hour days, Joey Wilson Jr. is anxious for his CDL exam on Thursday and to begin a truck-driving career.
“I guess, trying to get everything over with,” he said when asked what’s on his mind heading into
Learning how to drive a truck at Truck America Training is a pretty grueling experience. It’s 16 days of near-constant time in the classroom, practicing on the facility’s range or driving a big rig on the roads in and around Shepherdsville,
August may be the dog days of summer, but the dog days of a commercial driver training class are upon us now in the early days of September.
As we mark Day 12 of our 16-day CDL or Bust series following seven students trying to earn