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Hey, ironpony hows things going? Talked to Silvia today about school, I was planning to go to school here in MD. Now I don't know if I should do Primes school or the local community college. Any suggestions? Do you get to pick reefer, flatbed, or tanker? Is it picked for you? Are you getting good miles? I see alot of Floral trucks here in MD is that something special? Thanks ahead of time.

 

I would go to Prime's school if you had a choice, although I may be a bit biased as one of the instructors . At Prime you will get at least 100 hours of one on one driving with an instructor while dealing with actual customers. As far as divisions go, there is a checkbox on your application for which division you want to go to, and if you don't like the one you pick, it usually isn't hard to change as long as you live in the hiring area for the division you want to go to.

The miles I have been running has picked up lately, I'm getting between 27-3500 a week right now, and had a 4100 mile week last month.

The floral trailers you're seeing are regular Prime trailers with special graphics on them to advertise our floral distribution business.

 

Thanks sazook. Does the student do all the driving or like a team? What division are you? Do you run all 48? Is there any hometime during the whole training process? Do you know if there is alot freight in MD? Is there perdiem? Do you have to take it? Thanks again for answering. Might have more questions if thats all right. Don't mind your bias opion thats better for me to talk to an actual instructor.

 

One of ya all will have to show me that 4100 miles in 1 week - logging trick !!!!

 

Can't trick the paperless log while driving. Knowing he just came off vacation... my guess is his first load out of home picked up a day or two before the previous weeks cutoff on Tuesday and delivered it after cutoff... thus the miles carried over and padded the week that started after that cutoff.

I look at averages between 2 and 4 weeks to compensate for this... otherwise a 2200 miles week looks poor when the following week is 3600 is super, only because you may have picked up on the previous week and delivered on the following weeks check... avg is about 2900 per week with this scene.

Mine are good, but a little wacked out as I am team training, we both took hometime recently, additionaly my trainee went home for a few days for a funeral while I ran solo... AND we got stuck with a long distance Hazmat load that only I could run and my trainee was a passenger because he doesn't have Hazmat. He got paid the miles and I got a little extra cash and anextra day at home for the trouble.

So posting my averages right now isn't really indicative of what teams are running... I will however post them early Sept as we are running full blast the next 5 weeks before I take more hometime.

 

Thanks for the explanation !!

 

It was a legit 7 day week in the middle of June running on e-logs. I was getting long loads in and out of California as a solo all month for some reason. It was sandwiched by a 2500 mile week and a 3200 mile week for a 3 week average of 3266.

 

You sure you didn't call "Scotty" and have him beam you up n' around?

 

how strict is prime with there bmv qualifications? I called a recruiter today and wont find out till tuesday if im good to start or not...but i have 3 tickets in last 5 years..
jan, 15 2008 15 over
aug 28 2008 under 10
oct 11 2007 15 over

i know its not good but as for prime employees point of view, do you think i should not even get my hopes up? Be honost but please dont be ignorant about it....ty in advance for responses

 

15 mph and over is a serious offense by trucking standards and has been for a good while. The time limit will vary from company to company.