Finished PSD On To TNT

For what it's worth, my trainer at Prime had a similar experience with his trainer when he started out. He told me lots of stories about what his first trainer did and did not do, and he vowed never to do that sort of thing. His second trainer (for TNT) was a lot better...so he had far fewer stories about him.

That first trainer of his was removed from being a trainer also, though he still drives for them. My impression is that he was just very, very lazy and a little slow. Your guy apparently has bigger issues. As said above, the lessons you learned will help you down the road, and good for you for sticking through it all. My trainer went out of his way not to repeat the mistakes his first trainer made, so maybe that's what you're being prepared for.

Here I sit at home wishing I would have went with another company, 4-5 weeks out (10,000 miles) as a PSD , come back and test for a week, then you 'must' go back out TnT for 30,000 miles....It's ridiculous, to get a Class A this way.

Marcus, breaking into trucking is not easy, no one here certainly ever told you it was. I'm not so sure why you are airing out your complaints like this when you knew how the program at Prime worked before you ever got there. We've had a lot of folks go through that program and and then go on to become very proficient drivers who are making way more money than most rookies. You inserted your whining and complaining post right into a thread where the original poster is posting things like this:

When it came right down to it, this was my CDL license on the line (not my instructor) I wasn't going to let my fate rest on anyones shoulders but my own. Going home without doing everything I could was not an option. I never want to look back and say I could of done this or that differently. So thanks again for your posts, I truly believe I earned my CDL it was not given to me. I look forward to learning more in the next phase.

Now, all I'm going to say is that one of you guys is a class act. I'll leave it to you to determine where you fall.

Marcus, just so you know, I had a TERRIBLE trainer. So I kind of understand where you are coming from. Breaking into this career is not cut and dried. It's kind of like that box of chocolates old Forest Gump liked to refer to. The folks who end up making a go of it in this career take the cards they're dealt and figure out how to play their hand. And trust me the rest of your career ahead of you will have to be handled in that same way. If you always see greener pastures, you will never be satisfied with where you are. There's not a day that goes by that I'm not doing crazy things like starting my day at 2:00 in the morning, or forcing myself to go to sleep at noon just so I can be ready to go just in case I get dispatched with some load that has to leave out at midnight. I'm a truck driver, I signed up for this lifestyle. I live it, I love it. Because of that I make it work for me by adjusting to what ever it demands of me. You can not succeed at this stuff by trying to force your own ideas onto an industry that you haven't even begun to understand.