Hello Prime drivers, and future drivers

Permit at home. Before you leave.

 

Sounds unanimous re: getting the CDL permit before going to Prime. Thanks to all. I may make an effort to take the test this week.

 

The CDL books for all states are online--just search for them. And there are many sites with practice CDL tests. Use them. Remember, it's just a knowledge test, the first step that must be taken. Another poster told me that if you go to Prime without a permit, you will have only 24 hours to prep for the test--while you are being bombarded with all kinds of other information. Methinks 'tis better to do it while able to control the flow of "information" coming out of the fire hose!

 

Sounds like my first day at boot camp.

 

I said that, n its LESS than 24 hours actually. Test is Wednesday morning, you get the booklet Tuesday afternoon. The Missouri manual is on their website, I went to cristcdl.com for practice tests.

 

drivers,working otr does the differant time zones ever screw you up as far as delivery times or just not knowing what time it is?

 

I set my GPS to Central... that's "truck time" at the home terminal. My cell phone gives me local. All appointment times are in "local." So... when doing trip planning, I change all of my appointment times to "truck time" and figure things out from there... then convert back to local as necessary.

When dealing WITH the appointments during pickup and delivery, its always off of my cell phone time.

And yeah, you have to be aware of it... Prime is a real stickler for being "on-time."

 

and this is something they teach you in the psd program i would think?

 

You pick it up from your trainer after you get your CDL.

 

The only one that gets confusing sometimes is Arizona. They stay on Mountain Standard year round. So when everyone is on standard time, they are the same as New Mexico, but when everyone else is on daylight savings time, they are the same as California.