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Joey Wilson Jr. was excited to get behind the wheel of a big rig on the highway for the first time Aug. 31 as our CDL or Bust class reached Day 8, the halfway point of preparations for their CDL exams Sept. 14 or 15.
Wilson did get on the
Unlike CDL or Bust classmates Russell Durgasingh and Teddy Flener, Jr., Jason Horton wasn’t an athlete. However, the 29-year-old Louisville native is certainly a team player.
Horton was the only one of the seven students in our class at
Teddy Flener, Jr. is the youngest of the seven members of our CDL or Bust class, so he had fewer life experiences to draw upon as he tries to earn his commercial driver license.
However, the 25-year-old Flener is the only member of the
It's Day 6 of the 16-day CDL training program at Truck America Training in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, and the first day of Week 2, when the fun begins.
With preliminary classwork behind them and CDL permits secured, our seven CDL or Bust
The big news of Day 5 for our CDL or Bust class is that Ryan Strange, Russell Durgasingh and Teddy Flener Jr. all passed their CDL permit exams, joining classmates Anna Basham, Wayne Meenach and Joey Wilson Jr., who passed on Day 4. Jason Horton
Day 5 of the CDL or Bust program brings a second chance for students Russell Durgasingh and Teddy Flener Jr. to pass their permit test so they can join their classmates on the road in a truck next week with an instructor beside them. Ryan Strange