Prime Inc driver thread

Most likely there is. A number of places we ship to for a load to go home on in that area. If nothing else you could bobtail home after dropping a trailer at Buttwiper in Williamsburg.

 

Smithfield in Smithfield, Kraft/Nabisco in Richmond, Tyson in Glen Allen, FedEx in Norfolk, A-Busch in Williamsburg... all places I have dropped or picked up a trailer when going on and coming off hometime.

 

There is a lot of good information to read here! I'm currently taking a CDL course and with any luck should have it come Thursday this week. 8 months from now I'll be released from active duty in the Marine Corps and will start looking for a job. Has anyone been in a situation such as this? I'm worried the lapse in time from CDL school to driving will cause a problem when I apply for a job.

 

Most of the large starter companies would want you to take a refresher course after 6 months. Smaller companies treat that differently. You might want to start talking to recruiters now about this...

 

Hello new guy here. How would living in California work if you wanted to drive for a company based so far away like prime?

 

We run all 48 states... lots of loads into and out of CA.

 

I'd imagine you'd spend 95% of your time outside of California. Going home when you request it if you go solo.

They try, and I say try to send mostly teams into CA as most of the freight coming out is team. That's not to say there aren't solos who get loads in and out... It's just that they try to send teams.

I have never had a problem getting a load to CA when I request home time at my parents house in the bay area... I just rarely get a load anywhere into CA running normal operations.

In 3 years, I'd say I've been sent in as solo, non request home time, maybe 3 or 4 times. When I am a trainer, running team, Id average almost every other week.

Living on the West coast can be great as a solo, you can be back east and request home time and the miles rack up. Same thing heading out of the House. But on avg you'll be running east of the Mississippi most, east of the Rockies second and out west the least.

 

Who is a good recruiter to talk to?

 

Sounds good I dotn mind being out of Cali the whole time. So how does it work if your last load is nowhere near your home state do you have to drive empty from your last drop to home? And if so do you not get paid for running those empty miles home?

 

They find you a load that delivers near your home. You drop the trailer at an agreed location, BT home. On the way out, reverse the sequence.