Hi, I am sitting back at home after leaving out with my first trainers truck on Aug 6th, He started calling me at 9:00 A.M. while I was still in class and finshing up my orientation process, So I jump on his truck and he says, He needs me to drive as I have an hour and 10 minutes left on his 70, I told him that wouldn't work as I have been up all day in class and so forth, I was never trained by this guy he would sleep and I would drive and then wash and repeat, We got some good miles but nothing of what I thought training at Prime would be like, They use the trainees as cheap team drivers, After about 9 days on his truck and him sleeping while I drive and vise versa I went to another trainers truck only to be talked down to and belittled because I have a very slight speech impediment where I stutter when I get frusterated or excited, He would never tell me what I was doing wrong while shifting or anything else unless he was pointing his finger at me and in his Georgia drawl "You are on my truck you are going to do things my way", The first trainer would wake up to drive in town or sit and watch me drive and as he did so, I would drive to the location and one incident that I remember very well was him looking in the right side mirror as I went up on the curb with the trailer to swing a u turn in a very small cul-de-sac, He screamed "STOP" I screamed back at him, "Look at where I'm going to pull away from the light pole that you are so concerned that I am going to hit, I'm already pulling away from it" He said well "You scared me" I said "Well you make not such a good trainer if you can't figure out that I am getting away from the pole" The second trainer would log into my log on electronic logs and drive under my ID, Which if I remember right is against DOT regs. FLOWER LOADS SUCK!! DO NOT VOLUNTEER FOR THEM, There is not enough time on them to do them with any accuracy. So we were in OKC unloading a partial trailer of Flowers into the cooler, He was up in the trailer moving the flowers to the tail of the trailer and I would put them on a cart and move them into the cooler, Well he got ahead of me stacking the boxes of flowers up, and so I stated to him "Man you are going to have to either slow down or get down here and help me" He snickered and we went on about the process, He said something about me picking up the pace but it was all in good fun and we went on with life, Well the very next day in ABQ I said that same statement and he comes unglued to the fact that he says "If you want to stay on MY truck you will need to learn to keep your mouth shut, I take my work very seriously and jokes will not be tolerated when I'm working" So I told him when we get close to Phoenix I'm outta here. So here I am wondering what could have been different had I went with a different trainer who was not in it for the $$$. Take Care. TD.
Prime Trainer can't train...
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