How to go about quitting Prime

Wec · Aug 29, 2014

silenteagle said: ↑

Read through the whole thread. My first reaction was to scream "Jobs are not there to make you HAPPY!!!!!!!" but reading through the rest I will tell you that IP, ChuckTaylor and the rest are pretty much on target.
It is a job, and it is a lifestyle. The lifestyle is what you have to get used to. If you do, and you treat the job like a JOB, communicate effectively, develop that rapport with your coworkers (dispatchers, road assist, ETC) and WORK to make your job more enjoyable, you will do fine and maybe find a little happiness.

Being happy and getting satisfaction out of your job depends 100% on what and how much YOU put into it! Nobody is going to facilitate those things.
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i work to pay my bills. I'm not a 20 year old kid with no life experience friend. If I don't make enough money to pay my bills then there is a problem. Understand? Good.

Jorihe84 · Aug 29, 2014

You come off with quite an attitude.

I'm pretty sure I know why your DM has an attitude with you .

Easy Steamer · Aug 29, 2014

slowpoke89 said: ↑

My suggestion would be to stick it out your first year or two and KEEP YOUR RECORD CLEAN. There's a lot of smaller (250 trucks or less) companies that are begging for drivers with 1-2 years of experience, and will have much better benefits, home time, high mileage runs, and some actually have regional divisions of runs where they do get you home on a regular basis unlike Prime. And one other thing(and never mind those Prime cheerleaders on here, they are actually paid office people monitoring forums)DO NOT EVER GO LEASE PURCHASE FOR ANY COMPANY WHATSOEVER!! That includes companies like Prime, Trans Am, Kllm, Hirschbach, etc. It is nothing but a scam advertised as if you will be your own boss and run like an owner operator. What it really is, is you will rent a truck from them, be charged an exhorbitant lease payment per week, it's another way for unscrupulous large companies to have the driver bear all of the costs of operating the truck, and when they get done bleeding you dry(like they tried doing to a friend of mine) they put another student into the meat grinder.
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I am a driver and instructor and trainer, I am also retired military. Don't troll in here with things YOU DON'T KNOW

Wec · Aug 30, 2014

Only when someone gets one with me.

reuter19 · Aug 30, 2014

with the attitude you have maybe you should leave. I personally don't want someone with an attitude like that heading into shippers and receivers. Give them attitude and you lose us money because they don't wanna work with someone who is a jerk.

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