On The Bus Headed To Springfield, Prime Training.

There is definitely time when out, but you will be adjusting to living in a truck and probably tired from the lifestyle.

I would start working on memorizing the verbiage, and later in the week there will be instructors on the pads and on campus inn with their trucks that can point you to the items you don't know the location of.

If you Google search "pretrip my way" you will find a post on these forums by Daniel B that has the prime pretrip with pictures that can be handy. I think a little bit of the verbiage has changed, but it's still pretty close (and would be more than enough to pass even if you did it 100% "his way.")

Well hey...I still do not have a roomate so when you get to the front desk let them know 233 (if you smoke)

You will find that if you just remember the 3 acronyms they want you to remember & where they apply that you will have 90% of the pre-trip already memorized just from that alone.

I went through Prime's training program and that worked well for me. I was at Prime's Pittston PA terminal during my training and one of the guys I went through orientation with was having a difficult time with the pre-trip to the point that his instructor was about to take him back to Springfield and kick him off his truck when we run into them. My instructor put me on the spot with telling the other instructor to ask me about the pre-trip, I was able to go through it off the top of my head because I had memorized those 3 acronyms like I said (we were inside the building no where near a truck at the time). The guy that was in my orientation class was so embarrassed (and he is 1/2 my age) that he took to heart what I said that he passed his CDL exam with flying colors because of what I said earlier about memorizing those acronyms.

Ernie

Just coming through Tulsa right now, empty on Sundays. Do they have wifi in the rooms? I'm looking forward to changing my clothes, been trapped in these since Friday with 10 minute stops all over the place.

I got in my room about an hour ago. Kinda worries me that my roomie has been here for 4 weeks already and still doesnt have a trainer for his 75 hours. He said others have been here longer than him even

What!? Four weeks wait, well guess I'll learn the pre trip.

4 weeks!?!? Either they are really backed up or something isn't right with your roomate. I would introduce yourself to instructors that you see hanging around, I met mine the second day of orientation just eating lunch. There will be a group meet and greet after the final meeting on Friday but I already had mine lined up so I skipped that and jumped on his truck.

Ernie is right, the pretrip isn't very difficult. Just make sure you know it. My instructor would have me go through it verbally when I was dead tired driving at like 2am.

4 weeks!?!? Either they are really backed up or something isn't right with your roomate. I would introduce yourself to instructors that you see hanging around, I met mine the second day of orientation just eating lunch. There will be a group meet and greet after the final meeting on Friday but I already had mine lined up so I skipped that and jumped on his truck.

Ernie is right, the pretrip isn't very difficult. Just make sure you know it. My instructor would have me go through it verbally when I was dead tired driving at like 2am.

After talking with my interviewer about when I can expect to get out after orientation is over ,because my roomate has been here 4 weeks, he told me he knew exactly who I was talking about. Said there are always a few guys or gals every week that dont really want to drive they stretch it out as long as possible til they are kicked out. And my roomie seems to be that way, woke me up at 2 am when he turned the tv on after coming in from the bar. The interviewer said 95% of the people who started Monday will be in a truck no later than next Monday unless they fail something. We've already lost about 15 to background checks and failed drug tests.

Wow did we really already lose 15? I wasn't even aware things happened that quickly.

Wow did we really already lose 15? I wasn't even aware things happened that quickly.

I knownright. Hell the guy I bsed with the whole ride on the bus quit right after orientation. Figured he would because all he did on the bus was complain about how much crap it was that he had to do orientation because he already had a cdl , even though he had never actually drove for any company.