Just Landed In Springfield, MO!
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How was the plane ride? Everybody always has horror stories from the Greyhound trips, so tell us some good news! I was glad to hear that you were taking the plane instead. Was it worth it?
Hey! I just left this morning with my instructor. We are in Springfield getting loaded. Prime gives you a free lunch when you check in, make sure you grab it!!!
Waiting for the shuttle and hoping there is food near where I'm staying. I'm starving.
Prime PSDS students starting tomorrow give a shout!
PSD:
Prime Student Driver
Prime Inc has a CDL training program and the first phase is referred to as PSD. You'll get your permit and then 10,000 miles of on the road instruction.
The following is from Prime's website:
Prime’s PSD begins with you obtaining your CDL permit. Then you’ll go on the road with a certified CDL instructor for no less than 75 hours of one-on-one behind the wheel training. After training, you’ll return to Prime’s corporate headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, for final CDL state testing and your CDL license.
Obtain CDL Permit / 4 Days
- Enter program, study and test for Missouri CDL permit.
- Start driving/training at Prime Training Center in Springfield, Missouri.
- Work toward 40,000 training dispatched miles (minimum) with food allowance while without CDL (Food allowance is paid back with future earnings).
On-the-Road Instruction / 10,000 Miles
- Train with experienced certified CDL instructor for 3-4 weeks in a real world environment.
- Get 75 hours of behind-the-wheel time with one-on-one student/instructor ratio.
- Earn 10,000 miles toward total 40,000 miles needed.
The flight was TOTALLY worth it! I didn't realize Springfield MO is literally in the middle of nowhere, so no direct flights (at least not from northern Virginia). The first leg I flew first class. Had a free upgrade and figured this was my best chance to use it before it expired. I connected in Dallas-Ft Worth and had about 90 minutes between flights. (My laugh out loud moment was when an announcement came over that there was a live church service starting in 15 minutes at the chapel near gate something or another. That was a first. A chapel in an airport???) Then we got onto a puddle jumper and that ride was pretty bumpy, but only about 90 minutes long. I landed, called the shuttle, and was on my way to the Campus Inn in 15 minutes.
The shuttle driver is crazy. I can't believe someone gave him a license. Also, I'm realizing that I own nothing camouflage printed, so I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb. (And the fact that I'm a woman. Not sure if there are any others in my class yet.)
I was able to get my lunch, and my roomie and I are ordering pizza for dinner while we study.
She's super awesome. She's already been here a week and leaves for her PSD driving training either tomorrow or Tuesday, so I might have the room to myself. She's been a wealth of information. We're getting along so well that we're talking about possibly teaming in the future. So we'll see how that plays out.
So now I'm in my pajamas, sprawled out on my bed and going over my paperwork and filling out my application and giving my manual another going over so I'm prepared for the permit test.
I'll start a training blog once I get through orientation week.
PSD:
Prime Student Driver
Prime Inc has a CDL training program and the first phase is referred to as PSD. You'll get your permit and then 10,000 miles of on the road instruction.
The following is from Prime's website:
Prime’s PSD begins with you obtaining your CDL permit. Then you’ll go on the road with a certified CDL instructor for no less than 75 hours of one-on-one behind the wheel training. After training, you’ll return to Prime’s corporate headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, for final CDL state testing and your CDL license.
Obtain CDL Permit / 4 Days
- Enter program, study and test for Missouri CDL permit.
- Start driving/training at Prime Training Center in Springfield, Missouri.
- Work toward 40,000 training dispatched miles (minimum) with food allowance while without CDL (Food allowance is paid back with future earnings).
On-the-Road Instruction / 10,000 Miles
- Train with experienced certified CDL instructor for 3-4 weeks in a real world environment.
- Get 75 hours of behind-the-wheel time with one-on-one student/instructor ratio.
- Earn 10,000 miles toward total 40,000 miles needed.
I second that observation about the shuttle driver. White knuckled it all the way here. And evidently turn signals are optional but he did keep a good conversation.
I second that observation about the shuttle driver. White knuckled it all the way here. And evidently turn signals are optional but he did keep a good conversation.
OMG he didn't say a word other than to ask me if I was headed to orientation. He had this radio station on that I KID YOU NOT was playing that Davey Crockett song and a few other choices plucked from the bowels of post WWII America.
Nothing camo? Oh No!!! LOL!
Congratulations!
It's bad enough when I drive out to AZ to visit my sisters and or friends and all the locals look at me and say...you ain't from around here are you? LOL!
JJ
Yeah, I'm the chick with purple hair and satanic shirts. I'm DEFINITELY don't fit in with middle America.
I've never actually been to Virginia, the closest I've ever been was Memphis Tennessee.
You'd fit right in here in Southern California though. LOL!
JJ
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Waiting for the shuttle and hoping there is food near where I'm staying. I'm starving.
Prime PSDS students starting tomorrow give a shout!
PSD:
Prime Student Driver
Prime Inc has a CDL training program and the first phase is referred to as PSD. You'll get your permit and then 10,000 miles of on the road instruction.
The following is from Prime's website:
Prime’s PSD begins with you obtaining your CDL permit. Then you’ll go on the road with a certified CDL instructor for no less than 75 hours of one-on-one behind the wheel training. After training, you’ll return to Prime’s corporate headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, for final CDL state testing and your CDL license.
Obtain CDL Permit / 4 Days
On-the-Road Instruction / 10,000 Miles