HELP please!! Prime Inc “PSD”

Sir, you are a student yes. The situation around the 18 wheeler with YOU in the seat backed by a full grown CDL holder as required does not change. There you are. Anything that comes up will be resolved. You learn.

When I was a student, they stuck me in that seat and said Mush, Indianapolis by 10 PM tonight with US 322 in a foot of snow. Get going. I don't know any better. So I went. It was a different time. You did not complain.

Eventually you will hold a full grown CDL yourself. and then there you are. We are moving into Spring once these winter storms resolve themselves. It's going to be paradise for you.

There is a risk that if this is too much for you within say three months you will go home and take up something else for a living. No shame in that.

 

You wont learn if you're not put into these positions to see how you handle it. Being in fog and able to see 5 seconds ahead isn't that adverse of conditions. Adjust speed, following distance stay alert.

Consider yourself lucky that you get to experience this while you're with a trainer and not solo. Ask questions and concerns you may have with him in a professional manner.

Keep an open mind absorb all the knowledge you are being given. It's a lot to handle, be patient, and be safe.

Finally if this is too much for you to handle, bow out now. Not everyone is cut out for this line of work. Nothing you described so far is even close to hazardous conditions you will face later down the road when you're out solo

 

6 hours a day isn't nothing for a commercial truck driver. if you can't get comfortable with it soon you might want to think about possibly a different profession.
In Alaska we drive 15 hours a day
Good luck

 

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It’s not the hours guys, all 6 of them, it’s the humidity.

 

Tell your instructor that you refuse to drive more than 1.75 hours per day until you’re ready. And that’s that.

 

You ain't seen nothing yet! Add in some fog, several curvy switchbacks, snow, icy roads driving through the mountains of Idaho at O'dark thirty.

But to solve your issue?

#1 Discuss it first with your trainer.

#2 If that's not to your satisfaction, call your Fleet Manager

#3 Call Training

#4 .Call Safety

The issue is your outside your comfort zone. As a driver? You NEVER want to be INSIDE your Comfort Zone.

 

For as much as you guys complain about trainee drivers killing people out there, I'm surprised by the comments.

Given my distaste for Prime, it's unsurprising you'll hear this from me -

"OP, no - this isn't right. He should be in the passenger seat the entire time you're driving, coaching you and training you. No mention of getting the load there on time, or pressuring you to drive faster than safety allows"

They're a sack of crud company that puts lease operators in a position they need to 'team' to keep up with payments, but their 'team' situation means 'using a student as an untrained slave'.

I trained my wife, I know how it SHOULD operate, and this isn't the first story like yours out of Prime.

Good luck.