Prime school question

not sure but I did like three duckwalk steps and I wasn't all the way down

 

what is the workwellfitness test? I have been talking with prime and dont recall my recruiter mentioning this or seeing on the website? any help please?

 

Look the physiscal is standart stuff at any trucking company. Pee in a cup, BP/ pulse Get the touch and cough, Step up a few steps, Relexes, Hearing, vision, lift up a basket of weights (my 13 year old daughter could have picked them up) listen to lungs and a few steps with a duck walk. I don't mean to sound harsh but if you cannot do these (I am 41 and have football knees) you might want to consider a different career. But the physical is not some strenuous experience.

what catchesmost people is the pee in a cup. Tey either cannot fill it or they studied too hard for the drug test.

 

THERE WAS A STUDY GUIDE?!?!?! I never received this!!! I just winged it....

 

I got my start in trucking driving for Swift, and we had a work well fitness test too. It basically measures your ability to walk the length of a trailer with weights in a basket. You pick up the basket and walk a few feet and set it back down. What got me was the 75 lb basket lifting it over my head...i didn't have a lot of upper body strength back then...almost dropped it! There might be a torque test too to simulate closing a snap chain binder, but it is basically useless, since you normally would use a cheater bar.

Don't sweat it. Swift used it at the time to weed out the dry van and the flat bedders, so I ended up pulling dry van for a couple of years. This is what I remember of the test: pick up basket with 35 lbs of weight and walk 53', come back and set down demonstrating proper posture. Pick up 75# and walk 53' and come back. Pick up basket from floor with 35# and put on chest high shelf and put back on floor. Pick up 75# and put on chest high shelf and then back on floor. Finally, the real kicker, pick up 75# from floor and put on shelf above head 6.5-7' to simulate being able to lift a rolled up tarp from the ground and put it on the trailer.

Then they took me to a thing on the wall that you were supposed to be able to apply 100+ lbs of pressure to simulate the binder thing.

Hope this helps, good luck!

 

Think about it in these terms...

As part of your job, you'll need to be able to get up into a trailer, and install load locks, assist in unloading (very occasionally,) sweep it out, etc. You're also going to need to be able to do a pretrip inspection which does require you to get underneath the trailer. It also helps to be able to do minor repairs - such as replacing the tandem umbilical springs, jury-rigging the tandem leveler arm to get the airbags inflated, etc.

This means you'll have to be able to climb into the trailer AND be able to move underneath the trailer. If you can't do these things without difficulty on a daily basis, you can't do the job.

 

Or laying on your back in a greasy truck-stop parking lot for an hour in triple-digit heat trying to monkey with a bent APU main fuse holder.... ahhh... nevermind... I'm just being grumpy.