- Report: #275488
Complaint Review: New Prime Inc
| New Prime Inc 2740 N Mayfair 65803
Springfeild, Missouri U.S.A. |
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New Prime Inc cdl training no class room training Springfeild Missouri
*Consumer Comment: Non sense report
*General Comment: I go along with Dave on this one.
*UPDATE Employee: Buster Buster Buster
*Consumer Comment: Class room training
*General Comment: No class room training
*UPDATE EX-employee responds: Funny
*Consumer Comment: Prime
*UPDATE Employee: Prime Inc new employee and proud of it
*UPDATE Employee: Take the easy road
*UPDATE EX-employee responds: your mistake
*Consumer Comment: another company horn blower!!
*UPDATE Employee: Prime's CDL school one of the best in the country
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Buster
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Non sense report
AUTHOR: Traveler51 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, April 19, 2012
POSTED: Thursday, April 19, 2012First thing to do, is to get your CDL permit BEFORE you arrive. Your recruiter should have told you that as well as common sense. A class room is NOT the best way to learn about the trucking business.
Prime provides you with real world, hands on training with an experienced company trainer for a few weeks, then you come back and take your CDL skills test, get your CDL and hit the road with a trainer for 4-6 months REAL WORLD driving experience. After that, you get your own truck and hit the road!
BEST ADVICE: Don't lease!
From my perch, this is the best way to learn and gain experience. If you had gotten your CDL permit, you would have had time to work on the CDL simulator instead of cramming tons of info into your brain overnight. Most people fail at this stage.
The cost of Prime CDL training is only $3,500 and if you drive for them one full year, it's PAID OFF!
If you had done your home work prior to getting there, you should have known this.
Perhaps trucking is not for you. I suspect not based on the immaturity in your words.
#2 General Comment
I go along with Dave on this one.
AUTHOR: MartyMarsh - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, April 16, 2012
POSTED: Monday, April 16, 2012This is a subject I could go on all day about but I'm tired of talking to myself.
So if the actual truth was told here I bet alot of these stories would change.
I wish all you folks nothing but the best and God Bless.
martym5@hotmail.com
Marty
#3 UPDATE Employee
Buster Buster Buster
AUTHOR: primeisawesome - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, January 29, 2012
POSTED: Sunday, January 29, 2012BTW Prime has electronic logs not much to learn there. We have a building full of classrooms, what do you think there, there for? OMG. Folks can blame anyone for where thier at in their life. What you want someone to study the book for you? You recommend someone to pay a school spend six months at a state college? Thats crazy, Prime will pay you $600 bucks a week to learn how to do the job that they want for you to do. Btw a year before I started driving a truck I took the CDL written test, got the book read it over took test. No big deal. I hadn't ever talked to a truck driver never sat in a big truck just read the book and took all three test. Then took all my endorsements in my spare time. A Instuctor doesn't teach you how to READ a book. We teach you how to pass you Pre-trip exam,7 way air brake test, maneuvers, and road test. A trainer teaches you how to do your job in real life scenario.
You simply dont know enuff about this industry to recommend,' how to' advice.How about you focus on becomming a CDL holder before you tell other folks how to.....Prime has been doing what the do for over 40 years, longer then most DR been Doctors. I trust they know what thier doing little more then you do.
#4 Consumer Comment
Class room training
AUTHOR: Dave - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, December 18, 2010
POSTED: Saturday, December 18, 2010With all of these people saying they have been ripped off by Prime , has anybody notified the Attorny General about this companies practice, or even the Better Business Buraeu.....or even the DOT on some of these over hour issues...
Dave
#5 General Comment
No class room training
AUTHOR: Dave - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, December 18, 2010
POSTED: Saturday, December 18, 2010In my theory ; you don't get expeirience sitting in a class room.. Books and drawing on a chulk board turn people into educated idiots..You don't learn common sense and you are unable to learn from your mistakes sitting in a classroom..Granted there are some things to learn in a class room, but alot of it can be taught by the guy who is training you .. These truck driving schools are turning out the most dangerous drivers I have ever seen in my life and in my opinion should be out lawed. Most of the insructors do not have much experience in driving themselves, and to try to teach a guy who has never sat behind the wheel of a 80,000 pound torpedo is just plain neglegence on the Federal Government's behalf.. Myself I was taught from a young man on the farm driving farm tractors then from there to class3 driver(that was before cdl) then to class 1.. all of my training was done by guies with 20 to 30 years experience...Training me while they were doing their everyday job and training me free of charge.. This was done all the time back in the day..When you got your lisence you were trained by professional drivers , not these idiots who are in these driving schools or some of these idiots from these big companies who are driver instructors...and it took me a year to get enough traing to be a good driver
The government needs to crack down on these types of driver training schools. I don't call 6 weeks of training nearly enough to train a person to call them a professional driver..After nearly 30 years of driving myself, I am still learning new things in driving technics.. This is heavy equipment and it can kill people if in the wrong hands...,and believe me I have seen alot of drivers who I can tell didn't get a lot of training
I know there is going to people who are going to disagree with me , but thats the way it is.. I myself am thinking about buying more trucks. But I am scared to death in what is going to walk through my doors as drivers.. I will not hire truck driving school graduates
Dave
#6 UPDATE EX-employee responds
Funny
AUTHOR: Bogus - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 12, 2010
POSTED: Tuesday, October 12, 2010#7 Consumer Comment
Prime
AUTHOR: Anonymous - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, May 16, 2009
POSTED: Saturday, May 16, 2009If this particular Prime discussed in this report, is the same as the over-the-road company Prime, I am surprised since I have heard they are a good company to drive/lease for.
#8 UPDATE Employee
Prime Inc new employee and proud of it
AUTHOR: Drifterii - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Friday, April 17, 2009
POSTED: Friday, April 17, 2009#9 UPDATE Employee
Take the easy road
AUTHOR: Litninrod - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, January 07, 2009
POSTED: Wednesday, January 07, 20091) as a lease operator (which is what Primes system is set up to train you to be) you are basically a small business owner. with all the benefits of an employee.
2)If you couldnt pass the CDL permit test after reading the answers in the book maybe you arent cut out to be a truck driver.
3)I hear McDonalds is looking for a janitor
#10 UPDATE EX-employee responds
your mistake
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Friday, May 16, 2008
POSTED: Friday, May 16, 2008My instuctor was also my trainer. He did an exelent job and we're still freinds today. The way to beat their system is to take a truck with a 1 year lease. After the one year is up turn the truck in and find another company to drive for. Thats where I made my mistake. My third year is when I lost everything.
#11 Consumer Comment
another company horn blower!!
AUTHOR: You Stink - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, November 24, 2007
POSTED: Saturday, November 24, 2007#12 UPDATE Employee
Prime's CDL school one of the best in the country
AUTHOR: Litninrod - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, November 22, 2007
POSTED: Thursday, November 22, 2007As for your not being able to read the manual the State of Missouri provides, I think you should file a ripoff report on the Warrenton School District. If you read the book instead of running around the hotel all night, you would have passed the permit test the first day like 10% of your class. Or even on the second day like an additional 20% did. You didnt even mention the third day.
As for life in the truck, my students do 90% of the driving i am up, alert, and in the passenger seat. The paperwork is done when we park for the evening after we back into a spot (student does 100% of backing after leaving Springfield).
I do have to agree with you that there arent enough hours in the day to accomplish all this but I teach 10 students in a year for 5 years now and NEVER had a student fail! Nov 2004 contractor of the month was my student in 2002. (go Todd!!!) This isnt rocket science but you do have to apply yourself and pay attention. If you need someone to hold your hand all day at work, I hear Mcdonalds is hiring.
Even with all the companys shortcomings, overall I think it is the best trucking/training company out there. Dont take the easy route and blame Prime for your mistakes.

