Prime says I must lease right out of school

The recruiter must get a commission for signing you to lease. Call Springfield directly and ask for a company position after training. If you want to do dry van, try Swift or another company that does dry van to do your first year with

 

Wonder what she decided; she hasn't logged back on this forum since January.

 

I’m sure she was mistaken. I was working for prime and they would never say that and I have a Lotta friends still work there no one was ever told that they had to lease.

 

Prime does require lease-purchase based on where a person lives and which type trailer the person wants to pull.
If a person lives in an area that's difficult to get home time or doesn't have freight through that area, then they'll hire that person if they lease-purchase. This way the driver has to pay for deadhead miles to get hometime.

 

And that is the kind of practice that gives the megas such a bad name. To offer a person just starting out in trucking a lease purchase especially when they know they cant make money off a driver because of location, is just setting them up for failure.
I hope this turns out to a miscommunication of some sort

What the recruiter should have said was move to a better area and we will hire you. Way less risky to move than to buy a truck in the worst way possible under the least favorable conditions

 

The reason I posted that is because several drivers that wanted to work for Prime posted on here that, due to their location, they can only do lease-purchase.

 

interesting I never heard that one from anyone I know that works there about six people and I never heard it mentioned at orientation. That sounds pretty unscrupulous to me. Prime was very straightforward in a couple months I drove for them though.

 

They weren't told that while working at Prime or during orientation.
The recruiters told them that so they can decide if they want to work at Prime or not.

 

sventvkg, did you go through their school and if so how was it? How long were you there and how much did you owe them for leaving early if you did?

 

No I went through school on my own before I went there. I would’ve gone through school there but I didn’t know that was a company I wanted to go to. In retrospect I would’ve gone back after my month-long eye medical issue that took me out of prime. I decided to not go back because I knew I wasn’t going to stay over the road. I was two weeks shy of completing TNT training. my plan was had I not gotten a severe allergic double I infection to stay for six months and then try to find an LTL job locally. That’s what I’m looking for now.