It's 2am.  I'm sitting at the table, all set to go.  Basically on-call.  I'm on a 02:00 to 14:00 hours shift (that's 2am to 2pm military time, for the lay-person.)  So here's the rub - you make yourself available for your 12-hour shift and just wait for a call.  In any given shift, you may work the full 12 hours, or you may not.  I'm told that generally, you do more than 40 hours in a week.

Today I'm riding with/shadowing the church member who referred me to PTI.  Her name is Karen Guynn.  She's been with PTI for a year and a half.  I have to do two OTR (over the road) runs before I can go on my own.  When she calls, I'll dash out of here with my lunch, backpack with warm clothes, and meet her at the office.

Following my first shift, I'll meet another driver out at the maintenance yard for Burlington Northern railroad and do another 4-hour shift shadowing him.  I'm eager to get these out of the way and be working on my own.

Well, it's 02:35 and she just called.  We're going to Canada somewhere, so that means a good long drive, hopefully taking up most if not all of the shift.

More later.