Prime - Forced Dispatch to NYC?

Yes and many new drivers can expect to practically live up in ny and the rest of the northeast. Meaning, prime likes to send to its new company drivers to the northeast and then leave them up there running short runs for weeks straight ALOT. Though ive heard differently from those who lived there, funny how trucking companies make an effort to keep drivers trucking in areas away from home.

 

I've been sent a load to the bronx once and long island a few times. It really isn't that big of a deal. As far as being stuck in the north east.. I don't think the planning/sales/dispatch people have quite enough time or brain power. You're going to go where ever they think the money is. I've been stuck east/north east a few times... It's like a magnet, once you get up there it keeps pulling you back.

 

I've never been expected to practically live up in the NE... as a matter of fact we have a fleet that is based in the NE because it's formed of drivers who live in the NE. That's a prerequisite to being on the NE fleet.

The guys being dispatched as OTR48 will get their share of it, as everyone does. Being a owner/operator, I like being up there, and can't get enough of it. Short runs equals low costs, and the revenue per day is great.

I think the flatbed side sees more of NYC and Long Island than we do on the reefer side. Most of our loads are delivered to DCs along the I95 corridor south of Newark, or up in southern NY state. I've run across a couple of drivers who are intimately familiar with da City, since they live there, who pull local reefer loads into NYC itself. A few folks I've talked to have done Hunt's Point, but it's not all that common for us any longer.

 

I spent about 1/2 of my first year here at prime up there. I would come off of home time and get a long load out of the house to usually penn then spend four or five weeks bouncing around the northeast on short runs struggling to make good miles for the week. Then i would ask for home time and get a long run back home. When i would ask why i had basically become a northeast regional driver without wanting to be i would be told that "we have dont have enough drivers to cover the loads in the area". I did that until i was here a while and my year contract was nearly up so i was able to tell prime that we were going to part ways if it didnt stop. Its been great ever since but man that 1st year was awful. So yes the load planners are capable of planning loads in this way they plan loads for the northeast regional drivers this way.

 

The New York City area has such a bad reputation mostly because drivers just talk bad about it, I think. LA is bad, Houston sucks, St. Louis is a miserable place, and then there's Chicagoland. The point is that every big city can be a miserable place to drive and park. They just talk funny in New Yawk.

 

Odd... as much as I try to get left up there, after a week I usually end up with a load running out of the area.

Yep... Atlanta traffic sucks, but nothing is as bad as LA.

The most difficult place I've ever had to back into was in Cleveland... Boston has some pretty narrow streets too. If you're going to be a truck driver you're going to be expected to maneuver a large truck in congested and difficult places no matter where you go, and rush hour traffic sucks even in some rather small towns too. Gonna step up, put your big boy shoes on, cuz this ain't no job for sissies. It's a real job for real men and real women.

 

I take it you've never been to downtown Brooklyn? Lol

 

Downtown Brooklyn. Downtown Chicago. Downtown Boston. Downtown Los Angeles. Downtown Houston. Downtown Atlanta. Downtown Cheyenne. Downtown Salt Lake City. Downtown Anywhere.

Like IP said, if one is going to do this truck driving thing for a living, one must hone the skill of driving. No company only runs on the Interstate highway system in low traffic, good weather, daytime conditions.

 

Lol none of those others listed
Shy me away. But Brooklyn does. I have no need to play dodgeball with a truck.