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

Juuuuust about Salt Lake City, after we get over "Three Sisters".

 

Still sitting in Hebron Ohio. Delivering to Allentown in the morning. Long two days waiting this storm out.

And if you bounced in TNT without a word please don't come back.

 

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Thanks for the encouragement but I know my situation and I'm good just seeing how encouraging people would be and I see now....NOT!!!! Have a good career dude..

 

Another day.

 

FMJ said pretty much what I was going to say. If you made at least some sort of good faith effort to let folks know what was going on, Prime can be pretty forgiving. In my experience they strive to treat folks right, and it isn't out of bounds to expect the same in return. Some folks are a bit more protective of not just the company but of their fellow drivers. While I understand the perspective, I'm tend to give folks the benefit of the doubt, almost to a fault. I would encourage you to re-apply and see what the recruiters have to say, with one caveat. If you really think that you made a mistake or that circumstances were out of your control and are willing to make a commitment to complete the training this time around, then apply. If you are gonna bounce at the first time things get difficult again (because we all know they will) please don't waste the company's time, your time, or the time of the trainer who has agreed to take you on his/her truck. Whatever direction you choose and however things go, may you find success.

 

Will tell you what experience I have had with this, then you can make up our own mind. Had a PSD student that I picked up at SpringMo. We drove to Amarillo, TX enroute to LA, he drove about 2 hours along the way, great day for driving, sunny, no wind, etc, you get the idea. We got to the TS in Amarillo for the night and practice backing for about 30 minutes, alls good everyone's happy.
I go in to get a shower and come back out, Student is standing behind trailer talking on the phone, gets off the phone and comes and tells me I need to take him back to SpringMo as he is quitting as wife wants him to come home, no emergency. I tell him, here's the FM's phone nbr, you call him and explain, but unless I hear otherwise I'm heading west in 10 hours, with or without him. He calls the FM, Fm says, well get you back after this run as it is not an emergency. Student calls brother and arranges a bus ticket home and goes to bus station and goes home. I keep going west.
About 2-3 months later I get a call from FM and he says"hey you remember so and so, he wants to come back what do I think", I say, well since he bailed ONCE for no good reason other than wife wanted him to come home, whats to stop hime from doing it again, or worse deciding after he gets his own truck to abandon it somewhere when wife wants him to come home. FM agreed, student did not come back
Now if there had been a family emergency or something like that I would have felt different
Just my 2 cents

 

Thanks... that's exactly what I'm doing and ready to make that commitment.

 

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Understand completely but my situation was emergency.

 

Then I would think you would not have a problem

 

Petro Mebane, NC.
Congrats