Video showing the awful truth about Prime lightweight trucks

If this guy works even somewhat hard he can run 120k miles per year. So 120,000 miles x 5cpm = $6,000 per year more for driving that lightweight, thats $500 a month! Look at it like renting an apartment would anyone pay an extra $500 a month for a 15sqft bigger apartment? .....Um no!!! Ive got(had) an idea save the $500 a month and after 2 years $500 a month is $12k which after is about after taxes $9k extra for suffering(lol) in the lightweight. If alot of people on here had an extra $9k they didnt know what to with, they maybe thinkin lightly used Harley. Not being a Harley guy I took MY extra $9k and bought me a GSXR 1000 did i mention that I got it for free haha ya free. Oh wait I had to suffer for it in my lightweight. Ill think about how bad Ive had it next time Im out for a ride on home time, on my free bike, tring not to get speeding ticket dam thing goes 90mph in 1st gear haha, poor me. 90% of living well in this life is a battle of perspective. Some people can turn a disaster into an opportunity and others an opportunity into a disaster. Someones on here every week whinning about they dont want a lightweight , too small, not enough storage,(plenty of room for one person ive got a flatscreen ps3 laptop microwave frige with 1.3 cube freezer winter clothing summer clothing tools and bunch of other crap to fit in mine) . When we all know their real worry is they that they wont look as cool as everyone else in a lightweight...pathetic. Just take the $500 a month people.

 

Oh no, I get it and so does Prime! I think that's why they at least gave their drivers a choice which is good on their part. I think the driver felt due to his size he should have been afforded the condo. Other drivers even commented that they could never drive something so small OTR so a lot of people may feel as the driver and OP. But if Prime is going to satisfy the customer and carry more freight, I'm sure other companies are watching. I mean other companies nickel and dime their drivers over APUs and inverters where Prime will give you that and $$ SMH....Some people just like to complain!

 

what disconnect? Policy has always been that company drivers get the truck they give you. Been that way forever. There is no "elect" to agreement, and the only harm or foul is the guy who didn't do his research before coming to Prime.

There are instances of new drivers asking and gettin a condo, and there are instances of drivers proving themselves to their FM and getting a condo a few weeks down the road. However I've never heard of a condo being a carrot used by the company to get someone to train or instruct. That's a something that's just a fact: you can't train in a Lightweight.

You want to pick your truck you go lease. And to make sure there is no "disconnect," you pick your truck from what's available or you wait (meanwhile you start covering your hotel bill)

 

Same here, except no power steering and team! No air ride, either! And we liked it!

 

There IS a disconnect! I was told about the option from my recruiter Joan M as if I had a choice in the matter. It's also on the company's website as if the driver could take the extra money if he wanted or the bigger sleeper for less. Personally I don't care because it's not a big deal to ME!! But if that's not the case and all NEW drivers are being assigned the ECOs from the jump than tell them that. That's all it's not the end of the world. I'm NOT the one complaining about the size. I merely gave my thoughts as to why the driver in the vid was complaining!!!!!

And please believe I can pay my own hotel bill......LOL I will never leave the way of sustaining myself in the hands of someone else. Wrong guy Buddy!!

 

Simply put, as a company driver you get what's available on the day you arrive in the leasing office for your (company) truck assignment. It's luck of the draw... and unless there's no lease operators that week and a serious lack of lightweights... you're going into a lightweight.

 

As it should be!!

 

Gee, for someone who was in the military... whats the first rule in boot camp they tell you about what your recruiter might have told you? Well that goes even double even triple for recruiters in the private sector.

Could you link or point us to the place on Prime's website where tractor choice option is discussed. I couldn't seem to find it.

I do know a couple of new guys that got condo's right at upgrade out of luck, some who asked. Based on that alone, if I was a recruiter I could stretch that truth to any recruit if I worded it just right. However, I know far more guys who got a lightweight.

 

I most certainly will Sir when I get a moment and of course I know the first rule of boot camp nor was I crying or whining!! AGAIN, I simply was adding my thoughts as to why the driver was complaining. He probably was told what I was an saw what I saw as well. AGAIN, I'M not the one with the problem or issue, I would happily accept almost .50cpm as a rookie driver to drive a Tonka Truck, so HIS gripe is baseless, I simply explained why HE felt that way.

And when I say "disconnect" I am by no means degrading Prime. I simply mean that one things being said which isn't the case! That's an internal issue and a minor one I'll admit but it is one nevertheless. Would it stop me from wanting to drive for the best....no, will it? NO!!

I ask that you guys stop making this about me when it's not. I simply understood what the kid was saying. It's tons of professional drivers saying that they'd never drive that POS. Also in a way Prime understands that you are losing some comfort hence the bump in pay while driving it. Even when I said why the kid was complaining I still agreed with the thought process behind it from Prime. So I don't know why you or anyone else think I was saying anything negative simply because I said "Disconnect"! I didnt call anyone a liar or say BS or any of that non sense. Disconnects and misunderstandings happen, no need to start WWIII over it.

I know you super pros know everything and I respect that and I wasn't trying to fish in your pond. AGAIN, just gave my thought to why the driver was complaining. It's funny that the OP who wrote the negative thread isn't catching this much grief! But I will be sure to post that info to you. It simply state that you get the 5cpm per mile if you drive the lightweight. My God!!

 

But... but... but, Darth Chuckie does know everything!!! LOL!!! At least he will once admitted to the "inner sanctum!"

It's much more likely that the OP read what he wanted to hear into his recruiter, instructor and trainer's words. It's quite common - assuming he ever asked, and didn't just assume (being in the military y'all know the ol' saw about that one) from what he was riding around in during training - that he was going straight into a rolling palace on wheels.

That's one of the biggest reasons why many newbs are into the industry and out after a short time... over inflated expectations. Too many viewings of "Smokey and the Bandit" etc, romantic notions of trucking as a over glorified pleasure cruise. I'd bet money right now that the recruiter never told the OP anything that wasn't the truth... but the OP heard what he wanted in those words.