Starting at Prime soon, and excited!

Ramen and Campbell's chunky soup will keep you alive at about $4 a day. Take a good multi-vitamin and you won't even turn yellow

Remember there is always time to stop and consider what you are doing.

 

Yeah the stop and consider what you are doingnis in reference to driving a truck. A lot of newbies break #### because they think it has to be done now! No no it does not.

The first rule is do not bend ####! Everything else is flexible.

 

Consider other companies for training that train as "team driving." Why learn in a team driving learning environment. You do understand that once you have your CDL it's you're driving while your trainer sleeps. Very rare that your trainer is awake while you're driving. This is why so many truckers say they see Prime trucks flipped/damaged/wrecked on the side of the road. It's no fault of your own due to your inexperience and newness with truck driving.

Make sure you really understand what it means when you're gone for 4 to 6 weeks in this environment daily. I like you was all fired up for Prime but then I started considering what kind of trucking I want to do. Why train as a team driver if my ultimate goal is to drive solo and own my own truck one day.

I'll leave you with this question to ponder: How would you feel about sleeping when someone you barely know may only have about 1 year of truck driving under their belt. Vice versa: If I was a trainer how would I feel about someone that just got their CDL-A driving while I'm sleeping? I don't know about you but that was easy for me to decide on not going with trucking companies that trained that way.

There are companies out there that train you as a "solo" driver you just have to do the legwork. Good luck

 

When you say companies that train solo rather than team drivers, how do you mean? I figured teaming with a trainer for a period of time was standard practice. If a trainer is sleeping, you might as well be solo. I’d be compelled to request a new trainer in that event.

I’ve read that C.R. England teams you for a whole six-months after training, but you’re solo after that if you want to be. Same with Prime, albeit a shorter team period.

 

I mean companies that don't have your trainer sleeping in the berth while you're driving. That type of training/driving is team driving. It's nothing like solo driving. Basically the truck runs nonstop to it's destination. Anything that happens while your trainer is sleeping is on you pretty much. This is especially dangerous when driving in the elements of weather.

It's like that pretty much throughout your training until you hit your 30,000 miles but sometimes especially with prime they like to play games and keep you beyond the 30k miles. How much can you really learn if your trainer is sleeping while you're driving and vice versa you sleeping while he is driving. I feel it's better for both to be awake and alert.

You're not really learning that much in the other environment you may as well be on your own. You're just making your trainer easy money and miles.

 

Congratulations. Prime is a great company. They have things well thought out.
I wish you the best in your career with Prime.

 

I am not a truck driver however I am very a lazy cook and I hate doing dishes. That being said I like to try and eat healthy except for cheat days.

I've found parboiled brown rice to be a great staple. You bring it to a boil, cover, then simmer for 10 minutes and you are done.

The thing is though that the steam will cook raw chicken or fish through and they will be moist to boot. Never dry. I like to cut up Salmon, chicken boobs, or chicken tenderloins and throw them into the parboiled brown rice with lots of seasonings.

Simply Asia sweet Ginger garlic is great, low sodium and no calories. I also like putting in some everglades seasoning, dried parsley or cilantro flakes, and dried onion pieces. I order the seasons in bulk off amazon.

Sometimes after it's done I'll throw a tablespoon of sesame oil in but it's ok without it.

The pot has to be rinsed off and dried with a paper towel and then I set it to the side to dry. No washing necessary although I'll wash the pot a couple times a week for sanitary reasons.

If a truck driver were to use this with with plastic eating utensils out of paper bowls he could get away with rarely doing dishes, eating healthy, and eating cheapity cheap.

One cup of water per cup of rice.

If you put twice the amount of water the box says to use you can even make a stew by adding fresh onions and chopped veggies to the meat and seasoning. The steam will cook the veggies just like the meat so that by the time the rice is done the veggies and meat are perfect.

An airfrier is good for making healthy egg rolls, airfried seasoned chicken, airfried catfish. I haven't used it to cook a steak but the thought just occurred to me that it might be possible. I'm probably going to try it soon.

(this looks good, I'll probably try it medium rare on Tuesday)

This can all be done low fat and low sodium if you want. Except the steak.

 

Life on the road need not be so spartan when you care to be the trucker gourmet.

On next week’s episode, converting your sleeper to a part-time Turkish bath!