PRIME Drivers... What's your 20? (2)

Hindsight is a beach.

 

Hello Prime drivers, just want to thank you all for replying to my thread. I will continue to post there and if u read my thread and do not want to post, please feel free to leave a thank you so i will know that you read it. Thanks again. Sitting at the truckstop on us131 and us10 x153 in reed city, mi.

 

Well im at a shipper in burley Idaho and man these guys are vengeful. I was 15 min late and they still have me waiting for a door 12 hours after the appointment time. If you get these guys be early or be prepared to be bent over cause if you are 1 min late well here is to the waiting to be re-qued.

 

At the Loves in North Platte, Ne. Fixin to head over to Schuyler, Ne to sit and wait at the scalehouse for my next load.

 

How do you guys like running for Prime? As an new driver would it be a place to go for flatbed? Im planning n getting my CDL through a community college as to not be tied to a company after training.

 

jcoop, I would recommend Prime's training program. Not because I am here and train people, but more because of the learning and experience you will get by going through the whole program is 100 times better than anything you will get at a college parking lot. From the first day you get with an instructor until you pick up your own truck you will be driving freight all over the US, not only gaining experience driving, but gaining experience with the complete job. Dealing with shippers and receivers, your logs and HOS clocks, where to fuel and park for the night, how to trip plan, and dealing with dispatchers and fleet managers. If you do go to a college, you MIGHT learn how to back a truck up and MAYBE drive around the block.

 

A truck driving school like ones in a community college teach you to drive a truck, companies like prime that have their own in house driver training program teach you to be a truck driver.

driving a truck is one thing, going on the road with instructors and trainers teach you a heck of a lot more. I've been going solo for close to a year now and I still learn new stuff every day.
I quote Socrates who said "Only true wisdom come from knowing that you know nothing"

anyhoo a company training program can help you a lot better than a community college.

 

Commitment is 1 year from the day you get your cdl and become an employee is what I have always been told