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Way to go truckerdan... you are on your way. Good luck!

 

ok have a question for prime truckers talked to them today and was told i have a job with them. question is they said i would be 11 western ded.will that be true?all she told me was with me liveing in utah 2 hr south of salt lake it was a perfect location for 11 western lol.also whats the avg time out before home time and weekly miles?thanks

 

Just spoke with a Western Regional guy about 2 hours ago as a matter of fact....In Illinois of all places. But he is here by choice. Lease driver and this load paid really well, so he took it. He seemed pretty happy running Western Regional and said he's doing well as a solo lease operator, but he's only been with Prime for just over a month.

I did speak with a driver in a lightweight Pete who was promised Western Regional and said he's spent more time in the Northeast than he ever had before. Took his word for it on that, but not sure what the deal is with him.

I have no idea what the home time policy is on the regional side for company drivers. On the OTR side 3 weeks earns you 3 days off and 4 weeks or more earns you 4 days off.

Miles? As many as you can handle right now.

 

I was told by a recruiter that I was in a good area for them as well. I was told that there was 3 different divisions of flat bed that I could choose from. That I could go home weekly or opt to stay out if I chose to. After I got my truck and put myself on the board I was told that I was in a bad area for them and I needed to go on the national account and stay out about a month. I would not trust them ever again to tell me anything. I had more of this when I was given loads. Somehow everything seemed to not go as they said. I got tired of being lied to all the time.

I have told every dispatcher I ever had do not lie to me. Shoot straight with me. I might not like what I hear, but I want the truth. I guess they thought I was kidding.

 

well i will be easy to spot i will be wearing a white and green guiness hat

 

I saw a western regional truck in CT the other week. However, it is rare that I see them outside of the western area, and usually when I do, the drivers say that they gave an OK for them to be that far east. All of our western regional dispatch is run out of our Salt Lake City terminal, so being 2 hours south you probably are in a good area, but I couldn't tell you for sure.

 

well thank you for the info sounds like all the drivers are happy and im headed there the first or second week of may for orrintation.the only bad thing is the 60000 miles of training ive been with werner since feb with over 50000 mi that prime verified. but prime said if i want the job heres what i have to do lol.i just hope that they dont lie to me like werner did and the trainners dont try to kill me like werners did (fall asleep at the wheel and slam on the brakes and throw me out of the bed twice and get told by safty im a newby and i dont no nothing to deal with it)but anyways enough of that ha ha ha.well i hope to met some of you guys sometime and be safe out there thanks dave

 

I think you'll find your experience at Prime to be much improved over Weener.

Use that 60k training period to your advantage - our operation is hugely different from Werners, so you need to get used to that difference. Also, the kind of things that go on at Werner aren't tollerated at Prime... Werner didn't go to paperless logs by choice - it was the FMCSA's way of forcing them to operate within the law.

 

I didn't find Prime's training any different than what he described for Werner.

My first trainer (3 total) fell asleep at the wheel 2 hours after I told him to stop to take a break (I knew he was falling asleep with the constant rumbling of the VORAD system going off). He refused. He hit another vehicle on I10 in El Paso while I was sleeping. The next 2 guys did everything they could to get me to falsify my log books and one of them had a problem with on time delivery due to alcohol and not being able to keep his pecker in his pants.

BTW, nobody cared, including the safety guy. I no longer work there.

With that said, your mileage may vary. There are good and bad in every company. I just happened into 3 bad ones in a row at Prime, but don't say none of it is tolerated, I know better.

 

Well - that's not been my experience. Fatigued driving, falsifying log books, drinking, perverts in lieu of good trainers all will get you fired at Prime. I've seen it. I've been here three years, and have seen plenty of guys let go for those kind of problems. So yeah, my mileage varies quite a bit from yours. And yeah, Prime's training is quite different than what happens at Werner - at least that's what the ex-Werner guys I have talked to tell me.