so choice load... lease?

Where in South Florida?

Thanks Freightwipper for your thread.

i was looking at going with Prime for training and my 1st year but your thread has lead me to going with Schneider with going company for 6 months and than signing on for the Schneider Choice lease for a year. Ultimately hope to get into my own truck and leasing on to schneider or Landstar.

 

Oh yes the bikinis are nice my Friend.


I owned a Parasailing Business off and on for 30 years down here. The bikinis and lack of them were very plentiful over the years.

 

Mostly in Broward county. I went to High School in Palm beach though.

Prime is a good place to get start from all I've seen. They have an in depth training program and they actually pay better than anybody else for noobs.
Schneider's training is short I think they only send you out with a trainer for one week and the rest is class work.
Don't get me wrong when I was a noob I wanted short training but I wish my training was longer when I got out.
It's wasn't fun being sent to tight docks in New Jersey after being released from short training.

 

I drive local from Maine to ct hauling potable water have been for over a year will Schneider take that as enough experience?

 

Actually I think they would..that's not necessarily local from Maine to Connecticut...you're crossing several states...

 

I think it's funny at Prime you can get your CDL..train then test.
Go lease right away and 4 months later start training others

Yeah that sounds like a GREAT training program.

Blind leading the blind..Just food for thought.

 

I think it's even funnier you don't understand how it works at Prime, LOL!

You have to have at least 12 months of lead seat status, no accidents, good ontime record and a net fuel cost under 12cpm or less before you can become a CDL instructor. That would mean that a student that started with Prime wouldn't be able to become a CDL instructor until 16-18 months after they started orientation and the PSD program.

As for the TNT program where you are basically team driver, showing the student at that point how to work at Prime, use the qualcomm, route plan, deal with customers, where to fuel and bascially how to operate your tractor at Prime, you have to have 9 or 10 months as a lead seat, no accidents, good ontime record, and a net fuel cost of 12 cpm or less.

Both TNT instructors and CDL instructors have to go through a week long training program as well before Prime will let you take a student. During that time they look at your truck, how well it's kept clean, how you drive it, how well you interact with students there at the terminal, if you can even train someone or if you are more like a drill instructor. There is a lot more that goes on to become an instructor at Prime then just saying "hey, I want to train" to you dispatcher.

Yep that all sure looks like 4 months and anyone could train to me.

 

Tommym plenty of jobs up here in the so called Pit hole, depends on what you want to do, and just as many offer a lease.

 

I'm not knocking Prime, lots of "starter" companies, SNI included, are super quick to put drivers with only around or a little over a years' worth of experience in a training position. Too bad the powers at be are too busy trying to govern every truck on the road and decide for us when we're too tired to drive, instead of regulating something such as new driver training so that super sweatpants trucker who isn't qualified to drive a 4-wheeler isn't training 10 new students every week.

 

That hurt my 1 feeling, I think that was directed at me