Refresher

Does anyone know what options one might have if coming into Prime after not driving for a while? Do they have some kind of refresher program for those who have driving experience, but haven't drove within the past 12 months? Or maybe I can take a refresher course locally and minimize my time team team training...

I trained with/drove for prime in 2014. At the end of 2014 I got a job offer at home and took that. Now I'm realizing that the office life isn't what it's chalked up to be. Maybe red tape and nepotism aren't all that fun afterall.

Thinking about trucking again, and given how well I was treated at Prime, they're an obvious first choice if I end up returning.

I'd direct this question at recruiting, but they don't have a live chat or email option, and I don't really want them calling me 3-6 months before I'm making a decision to go back to trucking.

 

Not quite a year yet - in December it'll be a year. I might have been rounding up. I expect to have to prove my self, as long as i'm given a day or so in a truck to get a feel for shifting again (air shifting in a ford focus just *doesn't* cut it) I think I"ll be okay.

At any rate, I want to make it a year with my current job - if nothing else, it's because it's not *that* bad, and because I appreciate the opportunity I was given and want to give more than enough notice. Plus, I need to get back in shape before I start flatbedding again. Flatbed didn't seem like that much work until I stopped doing it. I definitely had more spring in my step last year...

I've been thinking about going back for the last 6 months though - office job vs trucking, at least trucking I get some adventure while sitting for 10-12 hours. I think if I had taken more time off out of the truck, I wouldn't have gotten so stir crazy towards the end of my year at Prime... I think taking more time off (at home or someplace where I can at least get away from the truck for a few days) would have helped a lot.

Thanks!

 

Is there a difference?

At least when dispatch played favorites I spent my days somewhere interesting. Right now I just go 'home' to a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood til my next shift.

But hey - maybe i'm trying to convince everyone else that trucking is the way to go as much as I am myself.

edit - super important question: did prime ever got he driver facing camera route? That's like the one thing that would hold me back.