Prime: Orientation and Training?

Do you get paid for driving empty miles???

 

Which test do you want to know about?

On the company side, yeah - all dispatched miles are paid. The mileage each load is rated at is downloaded when you receive the load info on your QualComm terminal. That will be different than what you actually drive.

If I were a company driver, my current dispatch is 104 miles empty, and 2195 miles loaded - I'd be paid for 2299 miles. MapQuest is showing it as 2331 miles, and my really stupid GPS is showing it as 2176 - but its really, really stupid! If there's a really big discrepancy between dispatched and actual miles, my dispatchers have never had a problem putting in an adjustment to my settlement.

 

You are given a basic oreintation on how the week will go, fingerprinted, interviewed, medical exam and drug test. You are given the CDL manual for Missouri with the sections pertaining to the exam. There is no instruction, there IS recommendation.... STUDY STUDY STUDY. Its all right there in the manual. If you really want to be at Prime you will pass the test...very simple... its really the only thing they want you to learn on your own. Passed the test on the first try. They give you ample opportunity to take the test again and again.

the one where you say study study study?

 

That would be the permit test that "they" were saying to, "Study, study, study."

 

for a cdl? I ALREADY GOT MY CDL

 

Well excuse me! Didn't see an online curiculum vitae on ya! The permit test about the only one that requires any study, and y'all haven't been very specific here...

 

hey i didnt mean it that way. i just dont know which way to go. prime told me i could be home once a week if i went tanker. or is that a lie

 

They hold the recruiters to a pretty high standard there, so I'd guess that is what the tanker division tries to achieve. But you know how things are...

Loads are loads, and it may not always work that way - and in the process no one is "lying" to anyone. On the reefer side, I've never had problems getting home when I wanted to - but we do something completely different than what tanker folks do.

Find a Prime tanker yanker at a truckstop, and talk to him/her!

 

what does their very detailed background consist of??? I'm clean but just asking for any other readers who may have skeltons. If one is credit though I'm screwed.

 

Law enforcement, DMV, public records, employment history, DAC and FMCSA if you've driven commercially before - I'm sure there's more. Basically they're going to go over your app, make sure that what you put there matches what's out in the world. The point is to be honest about everything because they're going to find it. They use professional investigators with a law enforcement background.

I don't think that bad credit is going to sink your chances though - that probably covers quite a few drivers!