(New) Prime Inc. Springfield Mo.

I keep all my documentation(Settlements) with me at all times. I will be glad to sit down with anybody and let them look @ my stuff. If they can show me where I'm not making money.....I'll buy them dinner. OOps.... nevermind on the dinner....if I'm not making good money....I can't afford dinner......I'll get em' a glass of tea instead. LOL! No, seriously....there are drivers making money here and drivers losing money here. Just like there are people making money as O/O's ....... And, I know this isn't popular.....there are O/O's losing their behinds.....LOTS OF THEM. It's all how you run YOUR business.

 

I hauled HHG's years ago and North American Van Lines had the same deal, become an owner operator, little money down! Well HHG paid very well back then, but the company would run you hard for the first year, a little less the second, but the third year you were so slow you couldn't make the payments. They would repo the truck and sell it to the next guy and do the same thing with him. Any deal to make you an OO with little or no money down always works out better for the seller than the buyer.

 

Here's a tip

Prime's "Super Century" = a standard JB Hunt Century.

 

I guess it's good JobHunt's trucks are so much better than NewLawsuit Prime's rigs. From what I've read here, a typical JobHunt driver will want a really nice truck to live in while he's sitting at truckstops.

For JobHunt, there's the Freightliner "HyperCentury". This Winnebago of a rig comes complete with outlets to allow easy hook-up to local water, sewer, and electricity for those extra-long layovers. In other words, it'd be a JobHunt standard-issue truck. The HyperCentury comes with easily-removed seats so a kitchen, shower, and/or bathroom can be quickly installed up front. Phone jacks and cable/internet conns are optional, as is a sofa and entertainment center with HDTV/stereo.

Bring on the four-day layovers.

 

haha, funniest #### i've read in a long time. I should use that! NOT! Although when I do contact drivers, I tend to throw a joke in or two. Maybe should use this. Thanks, Tip! You have inadvertently HELPED a J.B. Hunt Recruiter.

 

I've been waiting for somebody to doctor a picture of a JobHunt truck to fit this description.

I can see it now: JobHunt truck with electric lines running to it, a big sewer pipe running down out of it, electric and gas meter installed on the back of the cab, water lines running in, trash barrel in front of the grille for trash pickup, mailbox by the headlight.....Maybe even a wheelchair ramp installed.

That'd be a great picture to match the complaints about the long layovers at Jobby that I read here.

One of you ex-JobHunt drivers should create this pic as sort of a 'tribute' to your mistake that was JobHunt. This is one I'd pay money for, boys and girls. It'd make a great postcard.

 

prime inc has no cdl school i recently attended their so called cdl class and it consisted of company horn blowers about what a great school it was and such a great company it was and on and on. class consisted of reading the missouri cdl manual until it made you dizzy and want to puke!! they give you no instruction at all throw you into a testing room and expect you to pass it good luck fortunatly i had the smarts to get out before i became almost four grand in debt!! now i am on a mission to keep other potential prime students or should i say prime targets from becoming another source of income for prime. thanks for reading!!

 

You made a wise move to get out before plopping down big money for training. However, there is more......

Before you can be trained to drive, you must get the learner's permit. This is the 'busywork' phase of training where you sit in a classroom and study the manual. This is also where you realize how much of a sham CDL training schools are, as you'll quickly realize, as you sit in a classrom like an idiot, you could have gotten your learner's permit on your own by just studying the manual. At least this is what I realized quick when I went to my mill. What a crock it is sitting in the classroom taking two weeks to cover material one can cover on his own in only two days, while missing out on work to boot.

The busywork is necessary, though. You need the learner's permit if you're going to drive 18 wheels on the highways during training, and the only way to learn to drive 18 is to do it. However, one does not need the mill to get the learner's--he can get that by studying at home on his own.

IF I were going to a training mill today, I think I'd try to forego the classroom phase of the training. This is because I'd get the manual from the DMV and study for the learner's permit on my own. After I got it, I'd THEN go to training, but I'd be starting when the road-training phase began. This would eliminate the classroom busywork phase of training and allow me to continue to work at my job, thus lowering my opportunity costs I would incur if I sat in a classroom those two weeks being bored to tears instead of working (also begin bored to tears but at least making money). If any mill I were interested in didn't allow me to do this, I'd try a different mill until I found one that would allow me to do it. And that mill had better be cheap or I'd better be able to pay for it using a grant. If not, I'd move to the next one.

 

Don't Prime Inc. Train for their company driver divisions?