Profile For William H.

Thanks for the reply! That was what I was kind of leaning toward, there is a community college out here that has a CDL class A course that takes 6 weeks from the beginning to June to the middle of July which works good with my AT date. Is this worth doing? Getting my CDL then applying for a job at prime? Or would it be better to wait and go through primes school. I just do not like sitting around and not doing anything (besides my part time job) for a few months as I wait to get my AT done.

Hello all, long time lurker here.

Iv always wanted to be a truck driver for as long as I can remember and have decided to take the plunge. A little about myself, im currently 20 and enlisted in the National Guard when I was 18 went through all the training and got done with AIT when I was 19 as a wheeled vehicle mechanic. I transferred out to a South Dakota NG unit from my home state of North Carolina and have been working part time and going to an engineering school out here. Iv been making good grades and doing well for myself but I’ve always had my sights on trucking. Since im closing in on my 21st birthday iv decided to do it. I’ve gone through this website and looked at all the different company sponsored schools and have done a good amount of research, and have narrowed down my search between prime and swift, prime being my #1 choice.

Now on to my main question,

Im going to finish out my sophomore year in the spring so I should be done by may 6th, iv talked to a prime recruiter and they told me to apply a few weeks before that date. The only problem I foresee is my two week annual training date which is from the end of July to the beginning of august (26th-9th). How will this effect training with prime? They would have to let me go to AT but when I got back would I have a different trainer? Would my training be longer since I was gone for two weeks? As far as my drills go I can split train so I can do two months of drill in 4 days so my monthly drills are no issue but the two weeks I have to go to AT for seems like it might throw a monkey wrench into things.