Profile For Primeguy

Didn’t Prime give you a number to call if you have problems with your trainer? I’d go that route before asking strangers on the internet-you might not like their answers (specifically my answer.). You sound like a nightmare, arguing over setting the brake terminology and whining over having to pull the king pin release lever???

As for the phone thing, if I heard a trainee have this exact conversation with his wife, I’d check to make sure he wasn’t actually FaceTiming his nude wife while driving too. You actually told your wife to bring the phone in the shower, you just weren’t going to look??? Dude!!! I’d have kicked you off right there.

Hello, they haven’t given me a number to call. As well I have already reached out to dispatch and haven’t gotten an answer back. Secondly I was not arguing about setting braking terminology. When he said set the brakes I pulled the hand valves out and he had told me no set them, push them in, so I just mentioned why not just say that instead of set them in. I just mentioned as well that it would be nice to have a trailer release button. That is the only sentence I said. I was not “whining about it”.

As for the FT with my wife, I understand that. She asked me and I said sure, I did not even look though and was completely focused on driving. You sound like a nightmare to train with as well to be honest, and did not offer any advice what so ever except berating me about fictitious scenarios you derived from misreading my post

So just to start it off, I am a pretty easy going guy and have had terrible trainers for a longer period before, but this guy is something else. First off he is lazy and doesn’t accept jobs unless they are golden pay. I’ve been with him for an entire month now and I’ve only done 10,000 miles.

Second off he is terrible at communication. He abbreviates his speaking words and refuses to learn new vocabulary. For instance in the beginning when he said set the brakes he meant to push in the hand valves. I told him why not say push or pull the tractor hand valve or trailer hand valve and he said he’s been training for a while and this is how he wants to do it.

There are other things as well and he doesn’t let me do things by myself when I can easily do it. He will also just tell me what to do while I’m doing it. This is all fine and I can deal with it.

Now, time to get into the real nasty. Guy is crazy racist, constantly talks bad about prime (I’ve had a real good experience with everyone at prime except him) he is also homophobic, and sexists. I’m not a PC culture guy or anything but I don’t want to hear this 40 year old white man talk about gays and woman in a negative light and constantly use the N word. Another thing is whenever I try and talk about anything even training sometimes he will just ignore me or just interrupt me and say whatever.

One time I tried saying it would be nice to have a trailer release button instead of a having to pull the lever each time, he just said I know the type of guy you are and you will die on that hill but you are blatantly wrong. This was only after a couple days of knowing each other, he later apologized and said he was out of line, then said we shouldn’t butt heads like that, and that if we continue to disagree that he will just drop me off in a random city and tell me to find my own way back to prime HQ. So I suppose I am not allowed to offer any opinion whatsoever about trucking or truck equipment.

Also, he stinks to high heaven, one time I couldn’t even sleep because of how bad he smelled. I can still forgive all of that but today was the last straw and I am thinking of trying to get a new trainer. I was talking to my wife while I thought my trainer was asleep (it was about 3 hours after he said he was going to sleep) and my wife asked if she wanted me for her to bring the phone into the shower on FT I said sure you can bring the phone to the shower, but I won’t be looking cause I gotta focus on the road out loud. Then about 5 minutes after I said that, this guy rips open the curtain fast as hell and immediately looks at my phone. I quickly turned my phone off and said what. He then just mumbled about making sure I was using the engine brake and to watch out for the rain. I was already using the engine brake as well so I am somewhat positive he was trying to perv on my wife through my phone.

To me this is unacceptable especially since he was met her as well. I was very ****ed off that he did that. When he calls his wife I put my earbuds in and blast them on full volume so I can’t hear him berate his wife. So I pulled into the next truck stop and told my wife what happened and she understandably freaked out and said she wants me to find a new trainer that doesn’t suck so much and I agree with her fully.

I don’t think I can deal with him for another 3 months only making $900 a week. How do I get a new trainer, while ensuring he doesn’t dump me in some random city as well, cause he has told me he has done that to his trainees before. Should I wait til I’m close to home and just tell him I want a different trainer.