My Prime INC Experience. (A Running Log)

You'll be A-seats. D through B-seats are trainees or CDL students.

 

Been at my prime orientation since yesterday so far so good

 

cool, thanks ironpony

 

For those of you going for TNT or PSD, move with a sense of urgency, a little hustle.

My student right now is really grinding my gears with a complete disregard of any time schedule.

In that note, here are a few things to consider when a guest in your instructor/trainer's truck:

1) Don't touch his #### without asking. Having my phone charger or iPod unplugged or moved by someone else without even so much as a by your leave really irks me.

2) Don't install your own #### on your trainer's windows. You're a student in my truck, you have no right or leeway to put up shades, blinds, your own gps or phone holders on my windshield.

3) Pick up after yourself. If you make a mess, clean up. As a matter of fact, help keep the truck tidy in general. Take the trash out or sweep out the mud you tracked in. And keep your ###### shoes off my rug.

4) If your trainer says you can play the radio, but he doesn't want to hear certain trashy things, them don't blast that very #### while he's trying to sleep.

5) You have no need of five pairs of shoes. You have even less need of leaving them strewn about the floor.


6) If your trainer says he does not want anything cluttering the dash, aside from assorted power cables, that does not mean that you have leeway to leave half your #### up there, including three days of mcdonalds wrappers.

7) If you lean over to play on your phone, do it in the back. Keep your fat head out from in front of the mirror.

8) If you are on your break, but are not sleeping, it doesn't hurt to help with various work related things, such as window washing at a fuel stop or spotting pins when sliding tandems. If your trainer gets out to help you at something during his break, don't effing wander off to leave him to do your work.

9) If your trainer provides you storage, use it. Your crap does not belong on your bed, his bed, the floor, under the seats, and on the passenger seat. And if he has something stored somewhere, THAT IS WHERE IT BELONGS.

10) Pay attention. Get the ear buds out of your ears, put the phone down. Listen. Wear your seatbelt. Wear your seatbelt. Wear your seatbelt. Wear your seatbelt. Wear your seatbelt. Wear your seatbelt. Stay out of the top bunk when the truck is moving. Wear your seatbelt. Stop texting while you drive. Stop texting while you drive. Stop texting while you drive. Stop texting while you drive. Stop texting while you drive. Stop texting while you drive. Stop texting while you drive.

11) Close the #### door when you get out of the truck. Stop texting while you drive.

12) Don't eat his food without permission.

13) Be a welcome guest, I shouldn't have to ask you to be.

Frankly, my student, who violates all those rules, all while making it to where I can only sleep bumped to a dock due to fear, has no business in this truck. Don't be that guy.

 

You have way more patience than me Jimmy. I could never be a trainer.

 

How much does a trainer get paid to put up with all this? And if your a lease guy any damage done by the trainee (to the truck) comes out of your mantaniance fund ?

 

I'd run out of places to stash the bodies myself, LOL!!! I"d wash the guy out myself, based on the repeated instances of texting while driving.

 

i have read your thread from the start all good info. im starting tnt training on 23rd.hope i can get a trainer with patience like you even though i dont think anybody would act like that in another guys truck maybe i was raised diff. maybe they should add one more thing to what to bring for tnt training RESPECT

 

I've talked with a lot of the instructors and trainers over the years... it gets MUCH worse. From the guy who missed ALL of the gears downshifting... and was rolling backwards down the grade at Flagstaff on I40 before his trainer got things under control, to the trainee who had the urge while it was his turn in the sleeper and took a crap behind the lower bunk! Folks ask me why I don't train...

 

I don't know why you keep saying the no texting and driving part like you tolerate it? They wouldn't do it but once in my truck. Let them know it's a $2750 fine.

Sit down with the student and go over the do'd and don'ts and what you expect before they even get in the truck. Communication goes a long way.

Be stern with your rules but at the same time don't create a negative learning environment. No one can learn being yelled at or an uneasy work relationship. Your job is to get them trained and on to the next one.