My experience in Prime's lease program so far.

I too am a relatively new driver with Prime. I'm company now, but I'm about to go lease. I realize it's not nearly as financially sensible to lease in the long run as opposed to buying my own truck, but that's why I want to lease a used truck that only has a 12 or 18 months left to go on the lease. That way I'll have just enough time to get my feet wet with running my own business and bank up some money so that when I complete the short lease, I can go to a dealership and have the money, credit, and experience to confidently buy a $150k rig. Whether or not I'll stay with Prime at that point is completely unknown. All in all though, I feel that prime is a decent company, and certainly no worse than any of the other megas.

 

Prime is a school, company that makes huge money on silly truck driver students, they make money, pure business. They dont care about drivers, you are a number at prime. All those parties, meetings, barbeque is for office guys not for drivers, you as a driver live in your truck.My buddy in NYC making 1500 per week delivering bread night time, home everyday. You on the road like a dog, dont see family or friends become lone wolf and making 1300-1700?? Is it a good pay? No it is not and the reason is because at prime you are getting ripped off big time. I am not saying Prime bad company, NO, Prime is a decent company, well organized but you are just a number at prime, a dunkey pulling fright for Prime to make money on you.Sales at prime rule the world, dispatchers are nobody, dont like one fhim, get another one - but it wont help you, cause sales rule.So they make money for themselves and you as a driver at prime on the bottom of food chain, things rolling from driver up, and they manipulate it.
Overall working for Prime is waste of time, low pay, huge rip off, slavery.
I averaged after one year with prime 1.49 dollars per mile doing lease - it is very low. And that is where they make money, students run cheap paying freight and sales getting all the money in their pocket. I was living in the truck.Did one year and quit next day as soon as one year passed. Prime is a student company, you can not jump over your head at Prime, they owe every single student big time for getting big bucks and you getting none for putting to much of an effort.Not worth it.

 

Your getting bent over and you don't even know it.
You actually like it.
You have to work 20 weeks straight to make
A living. Lol.
That's 5 freaking months for 1200 bucks a week
And your proud of that.

 

Another first year rookie know it all.
We're all old and dumb having been out
Here 25 years.
He's figured out already how to become
Rich leasing a truck from prime.

The 50 thousand drivers before him that failed
And went broke with prime were all just lazy
And didn't know how to run a business.
They actually wanted to go home at least
Once every 3 months. Lol.

They must be sitting in that corporate office
At prime laughing there ### off.
They've actually convinced these suckers
That working 5 months straight is something
To be proud about.

 

I can understand working like a dog to bank some money for a year. If you have a plan to get your own truck.
You appear to have your head above water. Good luck and don’t do that forever though

 

Crocky i am not trying to say anything against you or convince you doing your things otherwise.
Ofcourse my buddy has a lot of expenses but he is living his life.
Prime is not perfect, i am now at smaller flee(150 trucks) company, after Prime. Just to compare, i make 6500 in 3weeks than take one week off, here there stay longer home, rules are at the company minimum 3 weeks on the road. They buy me airplane ticket going back to Maine from Chicago and returning back to Chicago after home time, etc other perks. Company driver, no stress that i had with lease. I dont have 20 years under my belt experience but, just compare 2 companies Prime where i strated and where i am now is a big difference.Although thanks to Prime it made me sensitive money wise - dont waste time and resources.I feel more relaxed now, money even better than at Prime.
You do what you are doing, feel happy, i am glad for you that it is what you like.No, not for me, i felt screwed at Prime.
If anyone has a bit of intelligence he will not continue work at Prime, got CDL, finished 1 year, run, planty of companies around, or start your own if you really love this lifestyle and business.
Important to communicate with other guys from other companies, fast will get to the point that something not right at Prime, why pay so low.
Or another example, have other friend that works basically same style as all people at Prime, he leases his truck from one company and works as O/O in another, so his cheque is around 18000$ a month, +/- 3000 depend on the month. His weekly truck lease is 820 dollars, just do the math.How could it be I leased at Prime, runned like crazy, no social life, stress, and i end up lower than company driver at other smaller companies? Answer is simple, I was screwed by the company, they get the money and drop for me a little what they think driver worth. Communication is important, and new information, thus you can compare what you have and where you want to be.

 

I saw the post in the recent thread and figured I'd express myself. That's all. Hopefully it all works out for you.