Prime, never been insulted by employer before.

Sheeet, watcher say'n dare?

 

guys i know i worked 4for prime and will never go back the turnover ratio at prime says it all take it from me get a local job and be home with your family cause at prime you dont have a family

 

More good information if it was correct. A lot of rookies out there think that these BFI's are filling out HireRight reports all the time! Not so. They don't file with them untill you are no longer employed. The same as you see newbies ask what's on their DAC and they haven't even finished the CDL drivers test! They are under the illusion that DAC is some gooberment owned gotta be reported to if you don't use a blinker CIA funded operation! It's not! Reduce the BP and forget all about this BFI called HireRight/USISS/DAC untill later!

Do NOT waste you "free" copy of your HireRight DAC report until AFTER you have quit that first job. You ONLY get 1 a year free so if you're riding along and getting bent by BFI on this your first trucking experience and start looking for a job as you should before you cut the line you won't have a DAC to see. Besides when your new prospective company hits HireRight or whatever their name is this year you'll get a copy in the mail. I do every time someone hit's my file.

It might take the HR department a few days or weeks to file a report on you so I would just wait. DAC is not the mandatory reporting agency rookies are so scared they think it is. Yes they are like the credit reporting companies but unlike them HireRight has to wait for that BFI that couldn't get back to you on QC to file that report and if they were slow as molasses in the winter on getting back to you do you think they're going to be speed demons whacking your reputation unless you went ballistic in the office, then that might give them a push to "get er done!"

Just hold off on getting your report untill you really need to.
Let us just hope that when CSA hits and goes completely on line and your score is good it's pretty much make DAC as useful as a dinosaur in a china shop. A good CSA score vs a "bad" POS HireRight DAC report will be like paper scissors rock! That paper will beat the rock every time! Hopefully we'll see DAC riding into the sunset going out of business as how does someone with a good score do half the crap you see on a DAC?

All DAC has done is save many trucking companies the cost of 1 or 2 people in the office that have to check an applicants history! If a bad DAC comes in they aren't going to bother wasting their time and money calling for a verification! Why would they when all powerful BFI HireRight has a report that someone was mad and quit!

 

Im heading over to prime in about a couple of weeks( getting everything ready to go and getting my current job straighted out) . Is there any info i should know before going over to prime. other than stay away lol.?

 

Bring whatever reference doc's you need to complete the application paperwork again. Yup - they'll have you do that in pen and ink, and it needs to match whatever you put down in the online application. Also handy to have phone and fax numbers for your personal physician in case there's any questions there.

Don't forget... when it comes to the simulated road test - nail bambi!

 

simulator? i dont think i have to do that

 

It's not even a pass/fail test. It's just to get you accustomed to shifting. Too bad the clutches on the sim are nothing like a clutch on a real truck.

 

I was nervous when I took that sim last year at Prime. If I were driving down a street with kids, dogs, the police, and firemen running out in the middle of my truck within a 5 min timeframe followed by a 12'6" underpass while it's traveling means that I got lost.

I called it a videogame and the examiner (nice woman) got offended!

 

The two monitor screens that are used as side mirrors threw me off!

 

Its good in that it allows you to experience situations that you may encounter without killing yourself or others.

I helped put together a Lear Jet simulator years ago... much more elaborate than what you're getting in the sim at Prime. The pilots who ran a weeklong course in it were much more prepared to actually fly the aircraft than those who jumped in the airplane without it.

Same deal here...

But your're right. The video game people borrowed the same technology from simulation to make their stuff work.