The prime experience starting 8/13/2013

We made it to our destination, sitting at a truck stop for the night. Delivery scheduled for the morning. Got to drive quite a bit today. Can definitely feel the newbie should burn or stiffness. Gotta get the down shifting better. Otherwise, good run for me.

 

We ran 550 today, reefer

 

When my instructor came to the training pad to get me, he was already under a load. So he had already had ran some miles, but the delivery date was far enough, so prime had him come in to get a student. We just dropped the load. All is good. going to practice backing for a while, until the next load.

 

So it is Wednesday, got a load heading to Indy, about 600 miles. Just dropped one that was almost 500 this morning. Avoiding to the billing period, we will be at 1100 miles for the second day starting this billing period. Still have 4-5 more days to run more loads. Great start for this period. We have already dropped two loads, one Monday and Tuesday total of about 900 miles. By tomorrow I will have 2000 so far.

 

It has been almost two weeks since I started the psd program with prime. Have gotten some experience I wouldn't have of it wasn't for prime. The hardest part of this job is being away from wife and 1 year old son. It hits hard every time I wake up without them. I miss them a lot. It is times like this that I doubt myself. But I know I have to hang in there. This is for a better future and a new career.