Profile For Luffy D.

Thanks kearsey, I may contact u at that email though i'm not sure yet. Right now I'm planning to contact my fm this Wednesday and get an update on my upgrade and see if I can get any sort of date out of him for when I could get off this truck (I don't hate my trainer or anything, I just can't live with another person in a box and follow their rules anymore after enduring it for a few months). If my fm doesn't give me any helpful info and doesn't seem to care, I'm planning to ask him to route me to Springfield and put me in the hotels until a truck is available like spaceman spiff suggested and if that's not possible to route me home and I'll wait there until a truck is available. One way or another I'm getting off this truck and if he doesn't want to do either of those or give me any options, then I'm most likely just gonna tell him I'm grabbing my stuff and jumping off the truck and done with prime.....which sounds extreme but I'm honestly at that point where I don't care much anymore and whichever happens, I'll be excited for the change. Hoping to take my few months of training along with my CDL and find a local truck job for a year or two and use that experience from that to get other jobs. Though hoping prime works out, I enjoyed otr.

Thanks for the reply Calvin, honestly at this point I would prefer to be in the the hotels, i'd even go home. The money is nice but not worth how much being with a person in a box for this long has mentally drained me

Anyone out there know how long the upgrade process at prime Inc is supposed to take once u finish ur 50000 miles? I'm asking cause I passed my 50000 miles this past weekend and called my fm on Monday to try and upgrade and he just told me he'd start my upgrade process and get me to Springfield once a truck is available for me and I didn't think to ask him how long all this would take (I plan to call again in the near future to get an update cause living in a truck with someone else is driving me bonkers). So if anyone has some experience with this and knows how long it takes on average, I would love to know. I'm worried that their might be a long line of people in the same situation as me built up waiting on a truck to be available and this might mean I'd have to stay on my trainer's truck till God knows when. I hope I'm wrong and my fm contacts me before I contact him for an update. Thanks

Thanks turtle and Rob, learning that the trainer has no control over the pay made me look at my situation from a different angle and I'm pretty sure I figured out why I didn't make 700 this past week (I wasn't available for dispatch for two of the days of the work week (Wednesday and Thursday)) and I since I'm still in a learning phase, I forgot about that important fact. I'm sure this work week since I've been working the whole time, it'll go back to normal. I'll check that thread out Rob. I've read a bunch of ur training stories turtle, u seem to be a great trainer, hope to run into u one day

This is a question for prime tnt trainers or really anyone who knows. During the tnt phase, as long as your available for dispatch, prime is supposed to pay u $700 minimum which I believe comes out of the trainers pay (correct me if I'm wrong). My question is if the pay does come out of the trainers pay, does the trainer have the ability to mess with it or give u less than what u signed up for? Or does prime deduct the pay from the trainer and give it to the trainee with no input from the trainer? Will the trainee still get $700 even if the trainer and trainee had a bad week where they didn't get that many miles?

Thank u very much both of u for the helpful info

Hey experienced truck drivers, thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully answering it. I'm a new truck driver, currently in training at prime and so far I think I have figured out how weight stations work but I'm a bit clueless about check stations and ports of entry. I was hoping someone could explain to me if those two are the same thing or different, where u typically encounter them, and how u know as a truck driver if ur supposed to enter them or not? If u are supposed to enter, what do they usually check?