Prime Inc driver thread

According to my FM, Prime no longer makes deliveries or picks up in NYC, and LI is extremely rare. Fine as far as I am concerned! Pittston terminal is a bit of a mess right now as they are upgrading everything, but the shop is good. The grill makes a good burger, too!

 

I saw two Prime trucks pulling reefers on I-75 today within an hour! I had only seen one reefer and one tanker before today and had never even seen a Prime truck before I started researching two months ago. They were some nice trucks too!

 

I agree KingSon. I don't like travelling in a car in NYC so I definitely wouldn't want to do a truck there...

 

Thinking of headed to Prime after school...can anyone suggest a recruiter there thats decent to work with?

 

And they ask, "what color is a Prime truck?" Skittles! I guess they made some big changes at the Pittston yard. I remember when it was first opened. It was a real #### hole and it didn't have anything but in and out bound service bays and a guy on the side of the building in a little shop washing trucks with a small power washer. That Pilot right down the road ain't no better either.

 

Given my pick, I'll take getting paid for the miles I drive. In 18 months I've yet to be on the +5% end of the deal. But I did once get paid for 3 more miles than I drove! I kept track of it for a few months, and I figure its about 8% overall. So at 35 cents per mile, 140,000 miles # 8% = $3,920.00. Uhhh, thats over $300 per month.

No one is getting ruffled, I don't see how it would do any good. But its a bunch of crap. Out of my 11,200 extra unpaid miles I donated to the company last year, if you want to go back and deduct the 1/2 mile I drove to the Walmart, that would be fine.

Hopefully for Prime's sake, they don't use this BS when deciding how much to charge the customer.

 

You see... that's part of the deal. Using HHG, sales looks up the distance and quotes the rate. When you start talking about practical miles, then its how do you compute them? Pro Miles? Google Earth? Mapquest? None of those mapping programs including Pro Miles does a really good job at it, and they certainly don't include construction detours. HHG is the industry standard right now, and that is unfortunately what we're stuck with. On the lease side, the dispatched miles charged to my lease are all computed from that, but the excess mileage charge at lease end will be from the odometer, I believe.

But here's a tip... when I drove company side, if my route was more than 10% off, I'd let my FM know about it. More than once he kicked in some extra pay to make up for it... but you do have to be right on that fuel route to do something like that.

 

Stopped at a Pilot truck stop today to get some water and saw a Prime truck pull in. I went out and talked to the driver and he was a lease op who has been with Prime for 15 years. He says he loves working for Prime and gets all the miles he can handle. He had nothing but positive things to say about Prime. I really hope I can beat this ticket in court Thursday so I can be out of here by the middle of June! I got a ticket in 2009 that was 15mph over the speed limit and I got another in March 2011 that was 18mph over but I am going to fight it because I know I wasn't going that fast. My recruiter at Prime says if I can't get the ticket thrown out or reduced, they can't accept me. That would really suck!

 

Do you have your CDL yet?

If you don't, you would be eligible to defer the conviction. If you do have a CDL, federal regulations prohibit states from doing that. Prime seems to be the pickiest of all the companies when it comes to clean backgrounds.

Do any of the reefer drivers run into Canada? How often for the flatbed side?

 

Excess mileage charges are charged when your average miles per week goes over 2900 (ie, 50 weeks into a lease averaging 2950 a week = 2500 excess miles (50 weeks x 50 miles)). It is recalculated weekly. If you complete your lease, all excess mileage charges are returned to you.