Prime inc lease owner ops

Wow! You have taken home upwards of $1500 for a whole week!! That was my profit for a 600 mile run I did yesterday.

 

and you probably had the money to buy your own truck when you wanted it too didn't you, I did not have anything. I took the best option and its working for me, as a company driver I would have been fired within 3 months for not following their ######## mpg standards or for telling the dispatcher, like I have mine on quite a few occasions, to kiss my ### im not doing that stupid f!$#in load. not when im done with lease I will have the money, the credit and the experience. not to bad a deal for me. plus a 1500 dollar paycheck is a whole lot more than 350 a week I was bringing at my last job. which would you prefer?

 

we all have to bite a bullet somewhere in life. I will bite as many as I have to get to where I wanna be then I will be like all the other money men on here live it up, till then im gonna enjoy the rest of lease and deal with it, and save.

 

And bad decisions in the past are no excuse for bad decisions of the present.
If you had "nothing", you had no business buying a business.
I moved here from England in 1999, and worse than bad credit, I had NO credit at all. But yet, here I am on my 4th truck over here, which I ordered brand new and has been paid for for some time now. Hard work, common sense, not being wasteful and so on, makes the difference.
As far as being married with kids and not being an owner operator, bollox.
I am married, 3 kids, and have insurance on everyone, can afford for my wife to stay at home to be there for the kids, have 2 range rovers paid for, and so on. A blanket statement like that just makes the poster look stupid IMHO. I couldn't afford to drive a company truck for 99% of the companies out there. Get the facts straight, then do some more reading and research, then feel free to post ACCURATE advise.

Martin

 

My sarcasm was meant to point something out. $1500 a week, and not even every week, for all the risk that comes with having your butt on the line for that truck, is garbage... Yeah, you may be driving a " new " truck, but these days, the potential for these "new" trucks to have massive emissions related failures will put you outta business at $1500 a week take home. It was also meant to point out that if "little ole me" with 1 truck and 1 trailer, and none of those big contracts and connections that your "big company" has, can take home $5-$7 k.. Yes, I said TAKE HOmE... Then something is seriously wrong with that lease purchase agreement you are in. It's been pointed out time and time again, the big carriers aren't looking to "help" you start a business, they found a way to make a lot more money off the drivers than paying a company driver. It's preying on the gullibility of people who don't know squat about the industry. I could talk to you on the phone and give you the honest truth about everything out here, and you'd go slap your dispatcher or whoever for taking advantage of you.

 

Prime offered me a company driver job straight out of school (after the 30K miles as B seat) starting at $0.46...

 

I read a PRIME lease contract 18 years ago and tossed it in the trash where it belongs. I'm sure in 18 years they've tweaked it even more against the driver. buuuutttt, there's always another sucker comin' around the corner with big dreams!

 

It's just a matter of running more efficiently than everyone else.

 

If you want to be a hermit for 5 years, with a worn out truck. It's a great deal. Company drivers get the best paying loads, you fight for the scraps. Being a green horn you have almost no chance at all. Any O/O will tell you you that. Sad almost to tears, If you want to take your wife, and drive, company driver is the way to go. Us old road ticks are a dying breed. Way it is.

 

Do you even have a clue about what you're writing here? The majority of our leases are 3 years or less, and the trucks are new to about three years old. All are under warranty for the majority of that period. BTW... you guys usually crow about what a "great deal" you got buying those "worn out trucks," and then proceed to spend thousands on them to get it past a DOT inspection and thousands more repairing the inevitable breakdowns.

It does depend on your dispatcher, but company drivers get more of the longer, lower-paying runs. I've worked both sides and have seen how it works here. It also goes against your dispatchers best interests to feed you lower-paying runs since his commission is based off of your gross.

Well, it ain't rocket science either. However, I'll agree that most new drivers don't have the skills or knowledge to be successful, and that's borne out in the numbers who fail in the first year.

No doubt...

Doesn't pay well enough.

Sorry to hear that. Got your 401K paid up?