Question About Prime Inc. Application

The drive thru at McDonalds would be a better option than Prime. Don’t sweat it.

 

Don't believe all the hype about Prime. I wouldn't even consider them. Or any of the other mega companies.

 

I don't think Prime is a bad option. IMO, they have the best, and longest, training period. Prime would have found out the stuff you listed, so telling them was the right thing to do. Personally, I do not like reefer freight, so I would avoid Prime for that reason, if I was making the decisions where to work. Other people swear by reefer freight since people always have to eat. I think Prime requires students ride/drive with a trainer for 35,000 miles. I rode with my company trainer at the first company I worked for for 8 weeks. Trainer was great, I knew what I was getting into. We had no arguments and neither of us had bad habits making it hard for the other. I felt it was the hardest 8 weeks I ever had in trucking.

I could not sleep in a moving truck, almost no matter how tired I was. I'm a light-ish sleeper, others may not have as much trouble sleeping in a moving truck as I did. Later on I found some comfortable ear plugs, available at Walmart, Amazon, and many grocery stores that are both comfortable and cut out most noises. It really helps me sleep in a truck. These ear plugs are available in various numbers of pairs. I've been wearing ear plugs in the truck almost since the first day I drove a truck. Some people find any ear plugs uncomfortable to wear more than an hour. https://www.amazon.com/Macks-Slim-Soft-Earplugs-Pairs/dp/B0029ETBX2 These are the most comfortable ear plugs I've tried. I've tried at least a dozen different brands and models of ear plugs. Stay away form the foam ear plugs that have straight sides, like a tiny oil barrel. EAR is the biggest maker of those types of plugs. I cannot wera those for even an hour. I wear my Mack Slim-Fit ear plugs for 8-12 hours per day, or more. There's a trick to getting maximum comfort and maximum sound blocking from any ear plugs.

 

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Check into the ltl companies. Most of them having training problems. And you will get better training and make more money than you will with a mega carrier bottom feeder.

 

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