Please tell me this isn't true...

That's be a use drivers sell them for food,gambling,drugs,sex,or revenge.

 

That's true yes. You get your money back if you turn them in in good condition.
Primes way of cutting costs.

 

Smith Transport charged me a $500 dollar escrow when I was a company driver and I only got $299 back. Best paycheck I got there was $700 a week because I didn't go home for time off on the weekend

 

That's just the beginning.......

 

Not really. It's a way for you the driver to have skin in the game and to take care of your equipment, the company equipment. When was the last time you saw a prime tractor looking like no one gave a crud about it? Prime learned a long time ago that if you make the drivers have a skin in the game they take pride in how they treat everything.

If you look at some of the other trucking companies out there, you'll see the company drivers trying to sell chains, load locks, spare tires, anything they can sell that they can turn around and get replaced without anyone noticing to make extra money because they get paid next to nothing and need the money to get food, phone home, pay rent, keep the lights on for the wife and kids at home.

Which of those two scenarios seem like the better one? Prime pays there company drivers very well, treats them like family, and has expectations of YOU to be a PROFESSTIONAL DRIVER not some kind of street rat living in a tin can. I had no problem paying for my load locks, chains. I'll tell you what though, they are secured on my truck and I'll keep an eye on them becaus they belong to me.

It's that kind of company thinking that keeps Prime's equipment and culture in very good shape and always looking clean and sharp.

 

All the carriers have different ways of getting theirs. The system is set up for them, not the driver. The driver is just a means of steady cash flow. Just listen to all off the ads on the sat radio. They offer little trinkets to entice the driver who does not have sat tv or the newest equipment. Who do you think is paying for that. You!!! You just have to roll with the good and the bad. All companies are pretty much the same. The pie in the sky is not for us, it is made up.

 

LOL, sounds like someone has had a really bad time being a company driver driving for bad companies.