Leasing at Prime

Depends. If that Procrap has a MaxxForce engine in it, you're going to be in the shop a lot, and paying a lot of money out in repairs. The Cummins engine is more reliable, but it has problems too. Some of the cam shafts have a propensity to come apart after a few years... Cummins has not been very forthcoming about this, and if it happens once the engine is out of warranty you have a piece of junk that won't roll very far. The Cascadias are the most reliable trucks in the fleet, and both Freightliner and Detroit do the best job of standing behind their equipment in terms of warranty.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not out here because I like living in a rolling closet. I'm out here for the dead presidents.

 

You are presented the best load available when your truck gets to the top of the dispatch queue. Fleet managers have some say in the process, but their paycheck is base plus a commission based on the success of everyone assigned to their dispatch board. You have the choice of either accepting or rejecting any load, but if you reject it you go back to the bottom of the queue.

It spreads things out a bit so that one guy can't sit at the top of the queue and cherry pick the loads. You can also ask your FM to send you in a particular direction or location, but that doesn't always yield the best paying load.