prime orientation next week

It amazes me how these companies can hire and hire and hire and hire. Is turnover that high? Is the company expanding that much?

 

We have something like 6500 drivers...

Given all the myriad reasons why someone might decide they don't want to drive... had enough, lost their medical, too many tickets, personal situations that require a hiatus - and the inevitable washout rate through training (you don't really think that everyone who shows up is cut out to be a driver now do ya?) - and all the other reasons that people leave... it does take a couple of new folks every once in awhile to cover all the seats.

 

You forgot the "guys who lease a truck so they never have to run in the crappy areas like the north east (the ones with the good paying freight), so they can go home twice a month for 4 days (while making a truck payment), and so they can say 'no' to their dispatcher all they want (for no other reason than that they can)."

 

Funny... I make some pretty good money up in the ol' northeast!

 

The last week I spent as a solo driving around the NE, was a little under 2000 miles, with a profit of a little over $2500. You can leave me in the NE anytime as a solo.

 

Last week, I discovered there are actually a couple decent truck stops in Maine. Not too bad. Only place we can scan trips in Maine though appears to be at Fairfield. My biggest deal about the northeast is parking, or lack of it. New Hampshire has the Greenland T/A - about 80 parking spots for the 500 trucks needing parking in that area on any given day. Massachusetts... right. Connecticut has a couple decent sized stops, although you have to pay to park at the TA in Southington (unless that has changed). So that is my challenge up there. All the traffic I can deal with, and the tolls are one of the reasons it pays to go up there. It's the parking.

To the OP - welcome aboard! Best of everything! Keep your attitude up. In training, you will quit a hundred times, but keep on getting back up and hanging in there!

 

Yup. We had over 35 people in my class on the first day of orientation, and finished with 7. Half of the 35 were gone by the end of the second day alone and out of that 7 that finished, I know that atleast 3 are already gone. So it seems like their bringing in alot of students (which they are) but the percentage that actually goes all the way is staggering.

 

Wow.

That is an amazing rate of losing people!

I'm scheduled for orientation next week, but it is tentative as I have to wait for the NH DMV to mail me my plastic CDL. I've only a paper one right now

 

Contrary to the so-called opinion of the never-have-driven-for-Prime crowd, we're picky.

 

That is what the placement director at my CDL school told me. He indicated that only about %5 of applications are accepted!

I am thankful that mine was and am looking forward to getting paired with a trainer and learning a thing or ten million