My Prime Journal

Thank you both for writing everything down!

I have been looking into Prime, so this helps allot!!

Great thread and I look forward to reading more! Stay safe out there.

Hey, thanks for taking the time to journal your experience with Prime. I have applied and am currently communicating with a recruiter. Looks like i'll be heading out around the 20th of this month to arrive on Mon. 6/22 Do ya think if you had a few minutes you can advise a new boot on what to pack? I know I'll need a weeks worth of clothes, toiletries ect. ect. but what are some of the extras that you brought with you, what did you wish you brought. what kind of bag did you pack in. Thanks in advance for your anticipated response.

David

Well still rolling. Been a crazy start. Repair delays before we finally hit the road last monday. Headed to las vegas. Had a great time there. Than got hung up swapping trailer for a day, Than my cpap sim card came out for 3 days. I didnt even know it had one.Since it was a new machine and my first few weeks with it it put me out of compliance for 3 days. No driving. Very lame. Back on the truck driving yesterday. Still in the 4 days I have a 6.2 10.3 9.3 .3 and alost 10 hours driving yesterday, total of about 36 hours. Not bad for my first 4 days. While I was shut down and trainer driving we got got our front right bumper about tore off by a small trailer. We went to vegas. From Vegas we got a load going to fontana cal. From there we got a load to los lumas nm. On the way we had to swap and repower a load back to fontana ca. From there got a load back to los lumas nm. That is where we sit waiting now. We have a request in to our fm to get back near springfield and get on a wlamart account so I can get some dock backing in. Sitting at walmart dc now waiting to be unloaded. Been at the door for SIX hours. *******s. If this works I will post a pic of vegas. Trucking aint easy in vegas ; )

Coming in with an out of state permit, do you still need to pay the money to transfer it over to MO?

Coming in with an out of state permit, do you still need to pay the money to transfer it over to MO?

Yes.

Ricky, Thanks for your comments/diary.

You mentioned early on that there "was a problem with your cpap report". Then recently you had the issue with the reporting data / sim card on a new machine.

Did you use cpap machine prior to signing on?

If so, did they accept your printed out data sheet as compliance? (want to make sure they do not ask you to do another test, if you are currently using a machine, are compliant and have an acceptable AHI).

Since they made you get a new machine, was it because yours (if you previously had one) was not able to transmit/record your compliance data.

Thanks, and good luck with your journey... look forward to reading more.

Ricky, Thanks for your comments/diary.

You mentioned early on that there "was a problem with your cpap report". Then recently you had the issue with the reporting data / sim card on a new machine.

Did you use cpap machine prior to signing on?

If so, did they accept your printed out data sheet as compliance? (want to make sure they do not ask you to do another test, if you are currently using a machine, are compliant and have an acceptable AHI).

Since they made you get a new machine, was it because yours (if you previously had one) was not able to transmit/record your compliance data.

Thanks, and good luck with your journey... look forward to reading more.

I came with a new cpap machine with only 2 weeks use so I didn't have the 30 days compliance they wanted. I think they made a mistake by sending me out. What happened on the road was my aim card came out and it didn't record 3 days. So I fell under 70% compliant and they shut me down. How mine works is I push a button and it gives me codes forb1-7-30-60 days. I punch those codes into a website and download a pdf which I email to prime.

Hey, thanks for taking the time to journal your experience with Prime. I have applied and am currently communicating with a recruiter. Looks like i'll be heading out around the 20th of this month to arrive on Mon. 6/22 Do ya think if you had a few minutes you can advise a new boot on what to pack? I know I'll need a weeks worth of clothes, toiletries ect. ect. but what are some of the extras that you brought with you, what did you wish you brought. what kind of bag did you pack in. Thanks in advance for your anticipated response.

David

I brought too much. Large duffle bag and backpack. I would say bring clothes for 10-14 days and toiletries. Maybe a book and laptop. Allot of waiting.

Today was my test day. Got the trifecta. Just left dmv with my cdl a licence. Missed 1 item on pretrip. Zero points on backing. Drove like **** on driving test. First light I blew threw yellow and got all in my head and nervous. Hadn't drove that bad in weeks. Tomorrow starts my 30k tnt miles. First 1000 are back home for a week off to fish and .....