Profile For Trucker Kearsey

But i know drivers who are slamming on brakes as soon as light turns yellow. This resulted in a car slamming into one from behind. There are plwnty of instances of this type of thing.

We dont want to make legal U turns cause of the camera... then can wind up in really difficult areas to manuever because the camera decided the controlled, green arrow, extra space given for trucks was unsafe.

Who cares about the guidance if they dummy down the exam?

They took out half the pre trip... removed parallel and alley dock... made the drive test much easier.

The entire exam process has been formulated to create unsafe drivers.

I think prime was given a sales pitch and the cameras do not work the way they expected.

I also think the rating system is wrong. How can 3 people have the exact same score rank wise? Me & 2 of my students all ranked # 8 on the same day. How can our bonuses be based on a flawed system?

And something else... they are constantly changing the parameters. So something that did not trigger yesterday... triggers today. And my pay is based om that?

When you dispute, they can refute your dispute. Didnt move over cause somone was on your left, but of course not seen in the camera? The guy sitting in the office decides.

Prime has already had a mass exodus. Another one is coming as drivers' leases complete.

I am heartbroken.

If the company is forcing hik to run 8/2 splits, i can see this being a problem too..

We need to remember, most normal workers get 12 to 15 hours between work times. We get 10. This causes new people to be extremely tired.

And being someone who knocked an axle off a trailer at 30 days solo, i sympathize. At least this guy isn't blaming someone for cutting him.off or such.

One of.my issues with these stupid cameras is that i got myself into a bunch of situatiions Prime never needed to know about... had thdy known i parked on gravel.and started sinking... would i jave been fired? I got out... but would the camera have tripped? My Walmart friend forgot to lock his tandems while in a tornado & hail. Ran around and did his pretrip then jumped in and roll a but through the yard. Tandems slammed... and guess what? Camera triggered and he was brought into safety. They threatened him with a "step" aka demerit. 3 in a year and you get fired.

People male mistakes and adjusting sleep can be a real problem and cause even more.

My suggestion... put it in writing. When you didnt sleep, tell dispatch in writing ASAP. "Just a heads up, couldnt sleep at customer. Going to need to stop for a 3 hour nap" or something like that. They wont argue with you in writing cause it documents it. If an accident occures you know those messages will be brought to court.

This is my guess... the OP is not sleeping due to long waits at customers. Being woken up several times to move to dock, pay lumpers, get bills.. while creeping around the yard to not trip the clock. Therefore, to dispatch, it appears as he got a 10hr break when it was spent working in "off duty" status. So he gets dispatched and is exhausted.

Am I close?

It takes months for newbies to get used to the flipped schedules. It takes a year to be able to trip plan and become great at time management. If this is your problem, how can we help?

Prime never pushed me to drive when tired. They would have repowered the load first. Smaller companies don't always have that option, and therefore put their freight contracts at risk if drivers delay.

I thought I amswered this... another thread maybe?

1. You MUST have a physical, redidential address. Meaning a place to live.

2. You MUST have a current US driver's license for at least 1 year

3. You MUST provide 3 years of verifiable employment (most companies will require US employment for this).

Come to.US, work 3 years with 1 yr of a license then apply for training.

It is about terrorism and certaij laws went into affect after 9/11

The winch is indeed a reportable DOT accident. Fatality injury or tow. The winch was a tow... you were immobile.

I would ask schneider to go back into training. Refresher courses are free at training companies... you will waste your $$ on a course if you cannot get hired.

First you need to come to the US and get a driver's license. A year later you can apply for a CDL permit. However, most companies will want 3 yrs of verifiable work history.

Seriously... i have made a couple legal u turns at truck designated u turn points. It triggered. Yeah, you can dispute it... but we dont even know who is reviewing them. Safety? Dispatch? We were told the fleet manager, yet some of mine say reviewed by safety supervisor. When i disputed i got a reply "valid alert". Yeah ok.

So next time i needed a u turn, instead of using the truck turn... i drove an extra 5 miles trying to find a parking lot big enough. Total distraction cause now im looking for a lot instead of cars around me.

You are lucky you can cover the camera lens. After using this for 9 months, i can honestly say it is crap. I didnt want to jump on the hate band wagon. I wanted to experience it first hand and volunteered to be one of thr first 200 with it. It truly feels like Prime has backed away from good training and is investing in babysitting the driver rather than training the driver. As someone who took training very seriously. I am heartbroken at what I have seen at Prime. Ours has a microphone, we were told they will not be used. We have no proof for assurance. The consent form does not sitpulate this.

The adjustment period is two fold... The cameras are on a default and it takes 48 hrs from the time the camera is activated to upload the company's parameters. So say the default is 4 sec following distance but Knight wants to decrease it to 3.8 secs... the camera will be adjusted over those 2 days. Knight may change the default later to say "hey, we are getting a lot of yellow lights counted as red lights. Lets allow them to run yellow lights."

One of my problems with Prime is that the adjustments were made and we have no idea what they are until we do something. We were told there would be "correction" time in order to prevent a video. Not true. We were told that changing to the left lane to create room for someone on the shoulder would add driver stars... not true. We were also told our safety bonuses will be based on our scores... but i know for a fact the scores are not accurate.

I think every in house employee should have to go OTR for at least 2 weeks. Let them see it in action... cause they tell us what it is supposed to do and it does the opposite. For example... it isnt supposed to care about no seatbelt if in a yard going under 20mph. Yet it activated on me. It dinged my friend for "improper parking" at a rest area... cause it was a parallell park type and thought he was on a ramp. That is a new violation they added a couple months ago without telling us. There are so many "proper" things we do that get dinged and need to be disputed. Lighting a cigarette or stroling your beard? It thinks you are on thr phone. Dont wear the proper bra? It says you dont have a seatbelt on.

I am.to the point where i don't even pay attention to it. If they want to fire me go ahead. I personally do not feel it makes me safer. It annoys me and distracts me by frustration. Even making a legal u turn at a light made for trucks to do so will trigger it. Something that didnt cause it to trip last week will cause it to trip this week.

They made such a big deal about "it will prevent fatigued driving". Nope. Cover your mouth and the camera doesnt know you yawned. Cell phone? Keep.it below the dash where it isn't seen. U turn? Pull straight up... turn left.. then straight and another left.

It is a waste. IMHO it may help newbies.. but many are nervous from them which is a distraction. My next company will not have these, i assure you.