I'm looking at going with Prime or one or two others as a company driver. Right now I'm not interested in Leasing a truck, although if I worked there and seen people making money with it, I may change my mind.

Keep in mind I need to get a CDL and their training program looks good. I like the idea the training with a trainer is longer the just 2 weeks, especially with winter coming on. I haven't driven a big truck in 20 years.

I would like feedback if I should consider going with them as a company driver. I just don't see enough bad post on here other then leasing to understand why their included in the "WORST COMPANY POLL"

Personally I don't mind making a time commitment to anyone for training. I learned along time ago that sometimes you have to take the bad with the good and good with the bad to get what you want.

WOW, companies this afternoon seem to be coming out of the woodwork with interest. I applied at 7 companies online within the last 2 days and 5 of them have called with 2 conditional hires before the background check even (which is spotless just like work history and driving).

Prime
MCT "Midwest Coastal Transport"
Schneider
CR England
Roehl
Interstate Distributors
Drivers Solutions encompising Pam, Allen Frieght, CRST a couple others

I have my eye on two for sure< just need to decide over the next week

I cannot speak from any experience but like you I have been reading up on companies at all the message boards. I read a few blogs from Prime drivers that lease. They all claim to be making good money but they also say you gotta run hard to do it. If you don't mind staying out for at least a month at a time, it doesn't seem to be a bad deal at all. Most of the Prime horror stories I have read are from drivers that used to work for them a while back. I have always heard leasing was not something you wanted to do, but you read some of these blogs and it certainly seems you can make it work. But you can forget about weekends at home.

One thing that has me worried about Prime is the very long training program. Granted its much better to be with an experienced driver more than just a couple of weeks, but with Prime it looks like 2-3 months of training. IF you get stuck with a bad trainer, that may seem like an eternity.

From what I understand from reading post about training it is long, but with winter coming up it may not be a bad thing to have years of experience with you in the truck. Plus from what I understand they are pretty accomondating about switching you to a different trainer if you don't like the one you with. My downside is living her in Florida it's not only tough getting hometime, it's tough just getting several companies won't even hire out of here because of lack of freight coming out.