Prime Inc.

Wait, what? You haven't heard any bad about Prime?

Where have you been, the far side of the moon? Perhaps you had your head buried in the sand aka an ostrich? I mean ok, Prime might not be a horrable company, but excellent? No way. No mega is excellent. They all blow.
Go to a school and get your CDL, then go to a decent company that hires new drivers. Stay away from the megas. If you must go to one, Swift, for all their faults, is a choice (notice I omitted the word good there)

 

I don't know if Prime is worth 2 squats or not.

That said, one person a company does not make. Did you bring this issue up with your recruiter, the trainer's supervisor, anyone in management?

 

Should have asked the trainer if he could be trained on how to simulate someone with people skills. Trainer is a twat waffle.

 

What did they ask you to do? What did you need help with?

 

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Sad part is these companies like prime insist on doing their testing and training with those simulators. I can tell you from my experience those "simulators" are nothing but fancy video games and completely useless for any real world testing. It's obvious the training staff at prime and these other mega training companies that advocate for training with those machines are nothing but glorified recruiters. This is trucking, not aviation.

 

They way it was explained to me was, they initially use simulators to teach double clutching, and simulate a drive, but non of it counts towards the 40,000 miles. I was told they loose students when they figure out they can't follow directions. I am not sure what part the simulator plays in testing, their Trainer and Safety meet first, then they meet with the trainee, if they feel after the minimum 40K, and if they all agree they have to take some sort of test on the simulator. What would you suggest is used for testing?

 

Double clutching? Simulator?
What's this world coming too..

 

Not sure where you get your almighty info from but Prime doesn't do all their training and no testing on the simulators. They are merely a tool used to get new drivers familiar with the concept of shifting/dbl clutching. Actual training for students is done on real roads, in real trucks and under live loads (for most, some stay local in Springfield but are using real trucks, on real roads). We are also tested in real trucks, on a blacktop pad for pretrip and maneuvers(backing) and real roads for driving portion. There are also a few driving simulations done on the simulator for various conditions and a half ### backing thing but those aren't part of CDL tests. There is one guy that works in the simulator room that can be a bit douchy but the story told by op seems extreme. My first question when someone complains about the sheet situation they find self in, regardless of company, is what are they doing/not doing to contribute to said situation. Everyone has a sob story but things can seem a lot different when you get the viewpoint from other end also. Some folks just have no ability to take responsibility for their actions, blaming everyone else is much easier.