Is Prime Short Of Instructors

Whether you should get your permit or not is sometimes state specific. Ask your recruiter. Mine recommended getting my permit before I come and I'm from Oregon. They will make you redo the physical so, getting a physical now is really just for your own peace of mind. The transfer fee isn't as expensive as the permit itself. You'll transfer it to the state you train in.

See in MI, from what I was told when I got my class B permit, I had to have the physical in order to get my training permit, it is an odd system in this state so I guess it might be different everywhere. I am almost considering upgrading my permit to an A class with tanker and airbrakes as it might help in the long run, but I dunno if it will help or not. If I can just upgrade my permit once I get to Prime that would be half the battle right there, and I am sure it would be much cheaper as well (maybe). It should only cost me out of pocket here $30 to upgrade everything to get to that point, but I am not sure how much it will cost to get the hazmat cert and background check for that as well.

Students...Do yourself a favor and learn every bit of the driving portion of the exam. I'm a bit perturbed at one of the examiners for what he pulled on my student on the drive test today. He failed him BEFORE he ever left the exam pad. I **** you not!! He never got his wheels off the exam pad and auto failed him because my student evidently poked his nose on the road and stopped and a truck coming down the road towards the gate hit his brakes. The examiner said; that's it, test is over, back up and park. The examiner claims he encroached on the oncoming truck making it deviate from his path. That is an auto fail. My guy never left the freaking pad. One of the other examiners allegedly couldn't believe it and repeated like 10 times while he and my student and the other examiner that failed him were in the trailer: " you never even made it to the road and failed!"

That's the second student in a row I've had auto fail for pulling out in front of another truck in the exact same spot. My first failed pulling into the lot (after passing the entire rest of the test) and my second BEFORE he even got on the road. I don't know what to think. Both students never did anything like that the entire time they drove with me but for some reason on test day, bad decisions cost them the test. Although this past one sounds a little scetchy. The first guy yes, I watched and he definitely pulled in front of another vehicle. The second I didn't see but according to my student, he never got his tires off the concrete of the exam lot.

Don't change anything you do on test day from what you learned on the road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This sucks! What happens in this situation? Does your student retest? And, I'm going to guess it's nerves. That test is a major step! Lots of pressure!

Yes he retested today and passed. He only had to retest the driving portion not the pretrip and skills.

Believe Igot an instructor, he was one of the top 10 instructors last year so it goes to show that everything happens for a reason. It's working out as it should be, I have the majority of the pre trip memorized which will leave me room to learn the driving.

Believe Igot an instructor, he was one of the top 10 instructors last year so it goes to show that everything happens for a reason. It's working out as it should be, I have the majority of the pre trip memorized which will leave me room to learn the driving.

Congratulations Jeremy. It seems your patience and good attitude worked out well for you. Good luck with your training. Were you able to work with Daniel any? Be safe and try to keep us updated if you have time.

I watched Daniel with his PSD a ltitle bit, doing the pre trip and some bacling maneuvers. It looks like I'll be here a little longer as my instructor is helping out PSD students who got dropped off by their indtructors. No worry, I'll just be way behind the people who I got here with. The more I watch other people learn the more I learn so I'm just gonna be patient and keep my head up.

I believe I'm just going to treat trucking like I did the Army as nothing is within your control for the most part. Other than the truck when you are behind the wheel. It's bad to rush things as well, it all comes in due time. As everyone mentioned I'm pretty sure trucking does not work out on a specific time schedule, it's always going to be different so you can't be too concerned about being able to control everything or when things don't go your way.

Finally got my answer in a Jeremy R post where he is looking for a trainer. Well it doesn't alter my decision to attend Prime. I will be jumping on that Greydog tonight. So any instructors that live in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area your next trainee will be ready to ride next weekend.

Don't let it alter your decision, it's a good company that I've seen so far.

I'm headed there today as well. See y'all there! Jeremy, no offense but i hope you've found an instructor and I don't see you!