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Sorry, I was in a froggy mood when I posted that,

PMS, CBB And ABC are abbreviations we use in our pretrip inspections.

In this cad regarding your clothes

PMS: properly mounted and secure. No sagging pants.
CBB: not cracked bent or broken
ABC: abrasions bulges or cuts. No torn ratty clothes.

 

The scary thing is that I understood that.

Then again, I did sit through the pretrip class at Prime PSD orientation... twice.

 

I missed that class at the dmv doing permit test I'm in psd at the moment having fun and learning a lot trainer is fantastic

 

As large as this thread is I have yet to come across I for on Hometime for someone in the Pacific Northwest? Mainly the south Oregon coast. Would once every 5-6 weeks be hard to come by? Heck does Prime even run that much up here?

i am at about page 200 so far.

 

I was just in Portland I wouldn't think you'd have a problem.

 

I live in the Seattle and have problem getting home. Only issue I might have sometimes is finding a place to get rid of the trailer. On occasion I'll have to drop it just south of Portland and BT home, other times I'm lucky to find someone coming off of hometime that needs it.

Getting up there isn't that hard. They have regular loads going either to the Seattle area or the Portland area.

Good luck,
-Redoctober

 

I wouldn't wear an Obama T-Shirt in Southern MO anyway. Lol might get your ##### kicked. Rofl.

 

Do you take the truck home for hometime, or drop it in a drop lot and drive POV home? Seems there was debate on the lightweight trucks: are they mandatory, heavily recommended, or completely optional? I'm not worried about having a TV or PS3 or any of that, just a fridge, my laptop and normal essentials. But I'm about 6'2 and 250 lbs, so space is a concern. What about passenger policy?

I drove OTR for about a month 2years ago, working as a CDL instructor now. My school does a 15 week, 240 hr course. I'm looking at getting back on the road potentially, and am fully accepting of the idea that I would probably have to go through training again. Prime seems to have decent pay during training. That was the reason I left my last company: training pay was .145 per mile, bu paid every mile, mine and trainer's. We had bad mileage for, being that it was December.

 

According to the recruiter I spoke to, those with a CDL and less-than-recent experience probably have to do the 40,000 mile segment. You run as a team and every mile put on the truck counts, so the team time is down a bit, but it's still longer than a couple times around the block. The Prime drivers I've talked to in person have all been very happy with their training, whether they started cold or came in with a CDL. The company takes pride and puts effort into their training program; it's other companies' drivers who whine, snivel, and complain about it.

 

I actually wouldn't mind doing the training just to get back into the swing of things and all that.