Day 1 at Prime

Three days of orientation... first will be redoing all of the application stuff you've already done - they want it in ink. Then the microscope - driving record, DAC report, urinalysis, doctors inspection...

Once you get through that, there will be a really minor drive test - unless they have changed it, all you do is drive a rig around the training pad and show them you can shift - up and down. They've got a simulator now, so it may be on that.

Finally some standard classes with easy tests. If you can stay awake, you basically get all the answers as you go. Hazmat cert, maintenance, sexual harrasment... the usual stuff. Then you get a trainer... although you may go into a holding pattern here depending on availability.

The skills test comes later when you do your "ACE-I" upgrade to A-seat. You'll get 60k miles to practice offsets. You're trainer will probably not be impressed with what you can do. They all get spoiled because when a PST student gets his CDL, he's got more time behind the wheel than you will.

Get used to 4-wheelers being jerks. Remember how you got PO'd when chance put you behind a big truck? Well, the shoe's on the other foot now, so to speak! Good Luck!

 

glad to hear from you..be safe out there and keep us updated

 

OTOH, most company drivers don't really understand the L/O game either. Some of it is ego, some of it is just lack of experience in one arena or the other.

Hey Emton, do ya have to wear shades around U2 to keep the glare from that chrome dome of his from blinding ya?!!

 

Now is it the company drivers with the ego's or is it the super awesome infallible lease drivers with the ego's?

 

Bill is a lease operator for Prime and as this is week 10 without a paycheck I can assure you that he does not have a super huge ego. Nor do many others I have met. Too busy trying to make a freaking living at this place to worry about that crap.

 

NOPE! Doc gave me a prescription for Propecia... I working on filling in the shiny spots.

 

Thanks Emton for your updates. As a hopeful perspective Prime newbie, I find our values in training are the same and have helped my decision to go with Prime that much easier!

Congratulations on a job well done!