Is Prime really that bad?

Some drivers inherited some money, so took some time off to do some traveling and relaxing.
Prime wouldn't hire them afterwards.
Prime gets flooded with applications every day, so can pick and choose.

 

I doubt prime is worse than any other huge long haul company. In my experience. It's more about your route. You are new. They will stick you with trainer first. Teams suck but you will have to get through it. Pick that person's brain figure out what are there best dedicated routes. And remember dedicated means all of your pick up and drop offs are already scheduled. Less waiting means more money.

 

Even then it’s still on your record for 5 years in the federal clearinghouse.
The OP admitted to using CBD(in particular with Delta 8),and that’s been catching up A LOT of drivers recently.

 

Yes Prime is that bad. When your turnover rate is 120% or more what does that tell you?

 

You'll have to be clean for 3 to 6 months. After that shave your head, face, arms and legs to be sure there is absolutely no evidence left over. Wait a couple more months then you SHOULD be able to pass a drug test.

Just had a drug screening a couple days ago and my left leg was chosen for the hair sample. Fortunately, I've been clean for over 40 years.

 

There are several trucking companies that pay the student while they are attending school and during the training period. I believe Millis and Roehl are two of the ones I remember. I think the best approach to entering trucking is to find the company you want to work for and then decide about how you get the license. Frankly, almost anyone can complete the training and learn the skills. Even in the days of manual transmissions and before 24/7 tracking of the truck/driver it is an attainable skill. That's not to say EVERYONE has some difficulty in some aspect of the job. MOST newbies greatly exaggerate the difficulty of shifting manual transmissions and backing the trailer. Learning to shift is accomplished within a couple of days, and then it is a matter of reducing the istakes until you seem like you've done it forever. These days 90% of trucks are automatic transmissions. Backing is a skill you can learn if you simply follow directions and can see the situation as an outsider and block out the pressure to rush you may feel.

About 80-90% of new truck drivers leave the industry before completing 12 months of work. I think most of this is due to prospective truck drivers ignoring the differences between trucking companies, not analyzing their needs and the nature of the trucking company and then the normal stresses of doing this job as a newbie. If you are really depending on trucking turning your life around you owe it to yourself to find the best match possible between what you need and what the trucking company provides. No newbie os going to cause the trucking company to operate differently than it is already operating. When you pick a company to train/work for you are picking your amount of tie at home, how frequent you get home or get time off, you are pikcing where you drive, what you drive, how much oversight you are subject to, how well your truck and trailers are maintained, whether you can bring a pet or a passanger, whether you will be on video 24/7, and many other things. You owe it to yourself to talk to current working drivers at any company you are evaluating before you work there. The claims from company websites and recruiter conversations and emails are not reliable. They are not guarantees and you cannot enforce them on the company. The company will operate as they have been operating, so you need to know what you are walking into before you agree to walk into it.

 

Wilson. Haul PRIME's freight, get their good trailer maintenance, but be treated better by your company.

 

Drivers not doing their homework to find out about a company is also responsible for the high turnover. Most newbies think trucking companies are identical, like picking among McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's. Since many companies have over a 100% turnover rate there is good reason to believe the job of OTR driving is responsible for SOME of that turnover rate. Some of the conditions that make this job hard for newbies also are not known until you have done the job for a while.

 

The companies that test your hair have to have a certain amount of hair to complete the test. Showing up completely shaved means either the company takes the hair sample from areas you forgot to shave you you are turned away until you have enough hair to be tested. Nobody passes a hair test by submitting no hair.

 

Probably why he suggested shaving it all WAITING A few more months for it to grow back and then go