Cadet,ask your trainer to show you how to float the gears after you have normal shifting down. Any trainer worth his salt should do this anyway as it could save your bacon sometime if your clutch quits and you need to be able to get to the shop. I once drove with a bad clutch from Houston to Little Rock,Ar. It could also save you if for some reason you miss a downshift goin down hill,floating a gear would be your best option in that scenario. I never let a trainee off my truck when I trained years ago without a lesson in floating gears. It also saves wear on your clutch if you do it properly.
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Discussion in 'Prime' started by bartage, May 6, 2009.
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I'm no expert, and double check w/ Prime, but I'm pretty they want to see some kind of graduation certificate. Be it theirs or from another approved school.CadetTrucker Thanks this. -
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Rand, difference between you and Cadet? You have HAD a CDL before and by what he's written, he has never had one.
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My advice (take or leave it) go through Prime's training. It's far better than what your goin to get from somewhere else. Prime will give you one-on-one instruction in the real world, actually seeing the job first hand. Plus you stay a year and you owe nothing to them.
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I ran into a prime driver about a year ago, Im leased on with JCT. Im not a lease op. I own my truck, He asked me how i like it at JCT?, told him I like it very much, Im treated like a person and not like a number, he asked me what my net pay was on a weekly bases was, and when i answered him he said, that about half of what he takes home, he said he takes between $3500. to $4000. home per week, when i asked him to prove what he was saying, he was unwilling, As i very much dout a lease op with a lease truck is netting that kind of money, just like to hear your imput
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i'm thinking of coming to prime and leasing in the flatbed division. Can anyone give me any info on average weekly miles and the big thing, do they run you by the house on weekends? Thanks for any info...
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