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Yes. Depends on where you are if you can legally park a CMV at your home, crime rate, etc. There are places security wants you parking at a secure drop lot. Otherwise we generally bobtail home.

Company reefer division solo drivers are going to be in a LW. Team, train or drive a flatbed/tanker will get you in something larger.

Adults, children over 11 are OK, but you need a passenger seat and/or a bunk with a safety net so they're belted in. 1 passenger in a LW, 2 in a condo. Just need to fill out the authorization form and get the rider insurance on your settlement. Its a four of bucks per week.

Good luck!

 

I was looking at flatbed just for the exercise. My house has a fenced yard with a locking gate, plenty of room for a Bob tail

 

Good to go then! Make sure you read through this...

http:// New to Prime INC - What to expect (Springfield edition)

 

I'm here on salt lake city. How unusual is it for 40% of the tnt guys fail a road test? i have a CA cdl. The school never bothered to teach me to downshift because the DMV didn't want me to during the test. I clutched and braked to slow down then down shifted. The trainer said it was a nono and failed me because of it. They say I have to go home. Others have similar problems and said we need to get a refresher at home and come back. We have to pay our way back. I talked to a recent prime trainee here from the pitston term an said 100% of TNT are on the road. A fellow here 2 months ago said 100% are on the road. I quit my job to do prime. I have to go with a lesser liked co now.

 

What school doesn't teach you to downshift?!? Lord help us all if your going down a mountain and don't know how to downshift.

 

To me, it sounds like you were slowing down with the clutch pushed in. That is the no no! The only time the clutch pedal should be pushed is when you are actively moving the gearshift.

 

And you should definitely be downshifting when coming to a stop or slowing. I'm an instructor in CA and we always teach downshifting. What school did you go to?

 

My Michigan school didn't teach downshifting either; we weren't allowed to go above 2nd on the range and kept the clutch out until we were almost at a stop when on the road. On my test, I asked the state examiner why and he said it was because, unlike in a car, downshifting doesn't really slow a truck that much and the foot/hand/RPM coordination had gotten test takers into trouble over time, so they left that for after-CDL training. I never had a problem because I'd driven standard transmissions in all kinds of vehicles since learning to drive long, long ago, so all I had to master was the foot/hand/RPM skill.

 

with ur trainning program would a person be with out pay during it?i cant afford not to have a income

 

Prime does paid training from what I understand.