Comments By Miss Miyoshi

If you're going to Springfield to train then you have to get your permit there. It's a Missouri law, not a Prime policy. They just changed it at the beginning of last year.

So he escaped your basement dungeon thing on the first try? Nice.

Couldn't get her to my dungeon either. She was under the weather, so we didn't get to hang out much. We did have a nice lunch though/

Rick

but this is by far the easiest job I've ever had.

Before I say anything further I'd like you to clarify something for me. Was "easy" really the word you wanted to use to describe this job, or maybe would something like "enjoyable" or "adventurous" or "exciting" be a better fit?

Because hearing a rookie say that trucking is easy has given me visions of ambulance lights and tombstones. It's one of the top 10 deadliest jobs in America and it's obviously not easy, but it is an adventure, it's a challenge, it's exciting sometimes, and it's a lot of other cool things. But it's certainly not easy.

So did you mean 'fun' or 'exciting' or 'adventurous'? That would be totally cool and I would agree completely.

I think I kind of understand what he's trying to say. In some ways, this really IS the easiest job I've ever had. But that's once I've made it out to the interstate and there's not a lot of traffic. The majority of my day is pretty simple: just keep the truck inside the lines and don't hit anything in front of you. It gets much trickier when there is a lot of traffic around, and then the real challenges come when you have to back into a spot and/or negotiate a shipping/receiving area/truck stop/etc. that you're not familiar with. But if you look at percentage of working hours, those challenging times are a drop in the bucket compared to the entirety of your day.

But saying it's "easy" doesn't necessarily imply you can be lax or not attentive to what you're doing. For me, saying my job is "easy" is just saying that I don't find what I'm doing overly complicated.

I ESCAPED FROM RAINY'S DUNGEON!!!!

Whoa! Welcome back! How's things goin?

Things are super awesome!!

Thanks everyone! Brett, I think, if I had to be TOTALLY honest, I made up my mind to become a truck driver for sure when I was discussing the idea with my mom (who is a very traditional Japanese woman) and she said "Why do you want to do a man's job? You can't do that!" Well, telling me I can't do something pretty much guarantees that I'm at least going to try. I don't always succeed, but I'm super glad I'm succeeding at this so far!

My thing is I don't understand all the hype about driving in the northeast. The snow and roads being shut down in winter weather is WAY worse out west, and no state in the northeast has chain laws! I know tolls are a bit higher, but if you're a company driver that doesn't matter because you're not paying it. Sure, there's traffic, but I live just outside of Washington, DC so I'm used to it. Prime doesn't deliver in Manhattan or Long Island, so all my NY runs are suburbs and more rural areas. Honestly, as a rookie driver, I didn't see why everyone was so bent out of shape about the northeast. I much prefer running up here than all the way across the country. I keep thinking "if THIS is what people consider unacceptable, they sure have lofty ambitions!"

The only thing different is that you have to double clutch a truck versus single clutching in a passenger vehicle. The pretrip will come to you in time. Don't worry. You can do what I did: I used the voice recorder on my phone to record the pretrip inspection and I listened to it over and over and over again, while driving, while cleaning the house, even while sleeping when I could! It's a great way to memorize anything. Good luck!

Good luck ladies! I drive for Prime and I LOVE them! I don't see myself going to any other company for a long time, and they really are a wonderful company to work for.

Interesting that the company name is Peloton. A peloton is the main group of cyclists in bicycle racing. The peloton basically is the support team for the lead cyclist of the team. He will often ride in the middle of the peloton as a way to conserve energy until it's his time to break away from the pack. If you watch something like the Tour de France or Giro d'Italia you can see how this works.

Names of companies that have meaning like this always intrigues me. There is a cyber security company that deals mainly with the government called Palantir. If you're a LotR fan, you'll understand why this made me chuckle when I first saw it.

I ESCAPED FROM RAINY'S DUNGEON!!!!