Prime or Stevens

I drove in the 80s too, with all the electronics we have now, plus 90 percent drop,hook. That part of trucking has gotten better. Stay ontime, be available all the time, piece of cake. Run,run,run. Thats what I've done.

 

Thanks for the great info. people!
I've been wasting my past year at college (deans list, whoop de doo) and found out they even outsource legal jobs! Mean time the unemployment is so low it's hard to make it living in a 5th wheel out here.

I have had the same questions about companies who also have schools. The information given here was just what I've been looking for and I'll be checking out Prime, before I go speak to my UI person at the college about the change in plans. I need to work, love the road, want to travel and hey, the kids are grown and gone so no tie-downs... so why not?

 

Why pay a few thousand dollars to go to a private school when there are many companies out there that will train you for free? And really depending on the company you will get better real life training then going to a provate school.

 

because you are then STUCK with them, and every company that trains sucks....




American Trucker

 

When I switched careers to trucking a little over 8 years ago, I thought, "If I had 3 or 4 grand to invest in school, I probably wouldn't need a different job!" But there really isn't any such thing as "free" training. Either you go to school, or the company that trains you gets MORE than their pound of flesh back by commitments, etc. If it was not PROFITABLE for them to offer the "free" training, they would not be doing so. As American-Trucker said, you are stuck with that "training" company. You always end up paying for the training one way or another.
I trained at Prime, and wouldn't change a thing.

 

Training at Prime isn't necessarily going to be 6 months long. The fastest I have taken a student that only had his permit, from the point where he had never shifted a truck, to being a solo driver at the end of training was just below 4 months. He started the last week of April, tested out for his CDL the day after Memorial Day, and was in his own truck mid-August. During that time, he took a weekend off for Fathers day, and I went home over the 4th of July.

As far as living in Amarillo and hometime, I've never taken a load into Amarillo, but I have taken many into Plainview. We do haul a decent amount out of Amarillo, so it wouldn't be hard to get you a load back out after any hometime.

 

4 months and he took a weekend off? That is not hometime. That is paroled early.

 

4 months training !!!!!!

Wow, that seems like alot.

Is that long of a period really necessary ??

 

Some "hands" are suggesting a 2 year apprenticeship....I hope I don't have to complete THAT to make my CDL valid..

 

There are regular runs from SAMs Club DC in Dallas to the SAMs store in Amarillio. I've done it twice.

There is at least two guys who do some sort of dedicated with the Amarillo and Lubbock SAMs stores out of Dallas. I forgot to ask what their backhaul was.

They were live unloads unlike the University Park IL loads that go into Wisconsin... Those were drop loaded and hook empty trailers into dock doors at the SAMs stores.