Prime PSD experience - sim time lacking

So the reason why you can't pass is because the class is too big, you were not given enough time on the sims? Even though you were offered more time and didn't show because it would be too late. Do you think we only work 8am-5pm in this industry? Or is it because the instructor was rude? Do think the shippers/reciever/other drivers that we deal with are always nice, they're not. Or is it because the whole situation was just sooo stressful? It doesn't happen all that often that we encounter some really bad winter conditions but it does happen. If you think your computer class was stressful I got news for ya! Just as unholy stated the training program is structured the way it is to weed out those can't hack it, and if you did in fact go home then it did its job. Out of all the students in that class you were in I'm sure that the vast majority of them passed and if they can do it so can you. But you want to come on the internet and trash prime, even though the reason why you're not going to pass is because you're quitting and not because of Primes training program. Especially with a boyfriend/girlfriend team this job can be rewarding $$$. I know husband/wife teams that in just a few years were able to pay everything off the house, the cars, the credit cards, and even a truck. So the husband is able to make enough money working a few months a year and the wife doesn't have to at all because there aren't any bills. It enables the husband to have a presence in the household and to be around to help raise his kids vs the father being gone all the time and the mother having to deal with the kids alone, and they have very strong marriage because of it. But how you get to that point if you can't even make it out of the computer class?

 

It's easier to blame someone/something else than to take responsibility for you own actions. If they want it bad enough they will make it happen, if not then they QUIT.
Most people, unless they have been in the military (in my Opinion), that try this industry do not know or understand the stress that a driver goes through on a daily/hourly basis.
Looks easy when they see that driver, just sitting in the truck holding the steering wheel heading on down the road.
Prime does a good job of weeding out the ones who can't handle it initially, in my opinion.

 

The way I see it: from the time you're first coming on, all the way until you have your own truck - and even for a while after that (really, everything for your first year, if you want to be truthful about it) - EVERYTHING is a test.

 

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Yep they do. In the two years I've been on T.T.R. almost all of the complaints about prime from those who actually have experience with the company have come from those who either couldn't hack and quit or couldn't get excepted for employment due to being eneligible. Then they come here and trash prime for their own faults.

 

On the first day of orientation at Prime they tell you "we are going to lay the tools out in front of you, we will not make you use them. Its up to you to pick them up and put them to work."

IMO You should have left the recruiter out of this. Once you are in the program, the instructors are your boss. My first place to express my concern would have been with the instructors.
I got washed back a month for some meds that I'm on. My experience at Prime was good. Except for the issue with my meds. The instructors where very professional IMO.
I wish you nothing but the best. Hope everything works out well for you.

 

They tell you that right up front. This whole process is one long interview.

 

Im sure anyone that has been in the program knows exactly which instructor you are talking about. His side of the sim lab would be way behind the others at all times.
Sorry you have had these problems. Hopefully it gets straightened out soon.

 

I'm glad that prime does that because it results in less phone calls to me from a frantic f.m. needing me to do things which are undesirable for my business in order to save a load that another driver dropped the ball on. Like the one I got the other day asking me to start my ten which was 1/2 over to go rescue a load from a driver who allowed his license to expire. Or the one I got last month that I had to repower a load that took me 100 miles away from the good freight lane I was already in forcing me to deadhead back after delivery without revenue to save a load from a driver who didn't plan his trip. These things cost me money and I'm glad prime tries to weed out those that will be the ones to cause these problems.

 

None of that changes the fact that the large majority of those students in your class made it though it and if you wanted to so could have you. Reading your complaints you haven't got a whole lot there, a crowded classroom, and an instructor that made a rude to remark but was not directed at you. And you're willing to go jump in you're car and drive 1300 miles from Springfield back home to Phoenix having come all the out here for nothing, and you only had a couple days of orientation left to do. Now you say you'll be off to train elsewhere at some other company which it doesn't seem you've even figured where yet and you're leaving what others are trying to tell you is a perfectly good company with great pay for new drivers that your boyfriend already works for in order in to do so. All because the whole 2 days of training ahead of you would be miserable. Yet you're going to tell us with straight face that you're not quitting. Actions speak louder than words and I'm calling b.s.