Off To Prime 11/18...
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Best wishes! Please keep us up to date through the CDL diaries! I will (hopefully) be with Prime once I meet a 30 day compliance period for sleep apnea. I was supposed to go on 11/11, however the sleep apnea set the clock back a bit.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Sleep Apnea:
A physical disorder in which you have pauses in your breathing, or take shallow breaths, during sleep. These pauses can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. Normal breathing will usually resume, sometimes with a loud choking sound or snort.
In obstructive sleep apnea, your airways become blocked or collapse during sleep, causing the pauses and shallow breathing.
It is a chronic condition that will require ongoing management. It affects about 18 million people in the U.S.
I love the avatar! I have felt that way on and off through this whole process!!
Congratulations on choosing and best of luck!
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
Welcome to Prime, pirate. Congratulations and good luck with orientation.
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Just hung up with my recruiter in Utah...and my updated avatar pretty accurately descibes the mental state atm, (the third cup of coffee didn't help, either). Heading to Pittston, which oddly enough is just up the road a-piece on 81, (ok.... 3 and a half hours up the road, but still...).
After being on this site for a few days, the choices came down to Prime and Roehl; since Prime said "yes" first that'll be where I go. Even split untill that point tbh.
And sadly, the only thing going through my head at the moment is Talyor Swift;
We're happy, free, confused and lonely in the best way It's miserable and magical, oh yeah Tonight's the night, when we forget about the heartbreaks It's time Uh-oh I don't know about you But I'm feeling twenty-two
This caffeines' gotta wear off sometime...