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sure glad I don,t drive anymore with all the bs going on today..dot has put up more pain in the rear signs on the roads that one can count. I can just imagine what the dot scales are like, and they were starting to pull trucks over while you were driving down the highway just before I quit in 95.. I drove refer, and all the time sitting at the receivers and shippers just to unload and load.. many 22 hour days...I was lucky during the last with freymiller, did not have to do a lot of repowers...I can imagine today that is done a lot, thinking there are a ton of teams out there today...

 

Bypass most of them, and the ones that pull me in let me go real quick. Benefits of having a well-maintained truck.

We have our bad days, but for the most part no sitting and waiting. Aggressive detention policies have a tendency to cut that down...

Not as many repowers as you might think. I've only done a couple this year.

 

Wife and I are finally going to Prime in October once my daughters trial in finally over!!! We are from southern California, and after trucking 2-3 years we plan oon moving to Montana. Does Prime have any local or regional work in Montana or should we just get used to doing OTR?

 

Plan on OTR... we have very little freight going to MT.

 

The one time I delivered in Montana I was dead headed 450 miles out to Burley, ID to reload.

 

450? That's peanuts for the company driver I noticed over the holiday weekend. He dead headed from Billings to Arkansas for a chicken load that went right back to Billings.

why was the loaded miles more than the DH? He had 3 other deliveries in the Dakotas.

somwhere in the 13-1400 range on DH

 

I just want to make sure I'm clear on some details. I went and passed my CDL permit test today. The licensing bureau told me they would process the paperwork and mail my CDL, but I would be marked as "exempt" until I had gotten a DOT physical. I understand Prime makes you take the physical in-house whether you've gotten one already or not. If I were to go to Prime, would I still need to get my physical before arriving, or can I wait and take the exam at Prime?

 

Talk to your recruiter.

My understanding is that the "exempt" means that it is only valid in your home state. Personally, I would get the physical before heading to Springfield. Orientation is a LOT less stressful if you have a good permit in hand before you get there.

With an exempt permit, my guess is that you would have to get the MO permit. That means spending 3 days preparing for the test, rather than learning about the truck.

 

Pretty sure like mine was it means you can't drive on it until you get a physical.

 

As far as the new self-certification requirements for medical examiners certificates go, exempt would mean that you self-certified as someone who has an exemption to the requirement to have a medical certificate under part 391 of the FMCSR's. I looked back through your posts and see that you are from Missouri, so here it is straight from the state:

http://www.dor.mo.gov/faq/drivers/medcert.php

From the looks of it, the person at the license office should not have given you the exemption, however, since you're from MO, I would imagine that you could go to Prime and get a physical done there, then go to one of the license offices in Springfield and re-certify as a non-exempt driver and get it removed from your permit. However, a call to your recruiter to double check wouldn't be a bad idea.