I want to chat w a Prime company driver...

If you had a CDL and experience I could have pointed to a company that might hire you... But alas such is not the case.


Not sure about UT... But in ID the permit is not required IF you only intend to use it for the test. As in you already know how to drive. If you have farmer friends you may be able to practice with thier truck on private property then go take the test with thier equipment. That is esentially how I got my CDL... However if you have no experience with a tractor trailer I would recommend some form of official training. And in that case 90% of companies are going to put you with a trainer for awhile after they hire you... Especially with a fresh CDL.

 

I prefer reefer work and that's what I did for 18 years. Lots of night driving coast to coast; running through the night listening to the radio in my solitude and sipping on hot coffee.
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I’d look up Barney trucking or Parke Cox or Andrus. All seem to be fairly decent.

 

Probably all afraid of company retaliation if they share thier true feelings. Companies do watch this site.

 

Attention all company drivers!!!

 

I drove for Prime as a company driver for a while, 7 years...

You can ask your questions here in the open forum if you want.

My feelings about the company are mixed. It's not the best but not the worst either. I heard that from the staff while in orentation and they were right. It's not a good paying job, but you can work more hours. Heard that from them also, they were right. About the same thing for any "Training company" or Mega Carrier. Even the small places that hire with no experience. You will work alot for not what it's worth.

It's a good place to start. Trucks are slow but you won't worry about getting speeding tickets, if you do then you deserve them. More often than not you can run 65 or 55 and still park in the same place at the end of the day. Seriously. They run new equipment with an APU and 1500 watt inverter, no fridge. and if there was some issue with equiemt safety they will get it fixed. Easy place to put in time for experience.

It's a big company and there are alot of rules, but that is a trade off as well. Lots of stuff you don't need to worry about either. They do handle the "grey areas" quite well. Maybe not the person imeadetly above the ladder from you. Some of them are cowboys and will walk on you if you let them. But if you know what's going on you won't have a problem.

As a company driver you will be working for a Lease Operator. Your Fleet Manager is really a fleet "owner" that is leasing the the trucks from "Prime" (success leasing). They pay you and the truck lease/fuel/layover/whatever. It is in thier interest to keep you busy, as busy as you can handle.

It isn't so much a company with company drivers and L/O or O/O. It is a L/O and O/O company through and through, despite what people think, this isnt JB Hunt: they won't run a truck to make a penny or a hundred trucks for a dollar profit.

People complain about sitting alot... I think they pissed someone off somewhere. Complained to much or blew up on someone, or just doesn't want to work. I mean why would someone with a lease payment, fuel, your wages want you to sit? They don't. If that happens then they want you to quit because maybe you haven't done something they can fire you for yet.

But there are alot of unknowns in trucking also. Too many people involved and if one of them hiccups there could be a problem for you. Not a company problem, it will happen, you will sit around for nothing. It it's possible to get you moving again they will, it's in thier interest. They have payments to make.