Would you leave Prime for Melton!?

Truth. I went

TRUTH. I went into flatbed right out of CDL school, five years ago and there is only so much that a school can show you and a trainer. My second load on my own, after three months with a trainer, I had the worst trip ever. Overweight in Missouri, broke my landing gear, had to be checked at the border and so had to untarp and retarp in the pouring rain, plus again when I had to get my load shifted...didn’t keep track of my hours and had to reset so the load was late....it was stressful. A month later I made round tires square and didn’t even notice them smoking behind me for at least two miles. I forget what the final straw was for the company but I got called in at the end of a day and politely ‘let go’. I was floored mainly because I had never been ‘let go’ from a job before. The owner suggested I go over to dry van for a couple of years and get used to driving OTR. I was sorta peeved. Four years later, returning to flatbed, I totally appreciated much more the original owner’s advice of getting comfortable just driving and I’m personally glad I’ve developed getting routines for the paperwork down, familiar with routes, trip planning, balancing exercise and healthy eating with the demands of the job. I still had to do a couple of months training with the flatbed company I hired on but I didn’t mind—I could integrate the load securement info so much better and even today look at my loads and decide how best to secure them....rather than wondering just which set of tires are my steers and which are my drives?