Can you make $60k/yr as a Prime Company Driver?

Does your FM go by the initials DS? Sounds like my guy too....

Edit: Wait, do you even work for Prime?

 

RS and yes.

 

Prime contract drivers earn well over 150 K per year....before taxes and business expenses.

 

Is prime going like most of the other big companies and putting cameras in the trucks?

 

No. According to the guy in safety who teaches the hival class Prime determined that cab facing cameras are a much larger liability than asset.

 

I've never seen a company camera ( inward or outward ) in a Prime truck, and don't see that changing anytime soon.

 

They had some guys run them as a test a year or two ago.
Final verdict by owner was, these aren't for us, and they will not be for us.

 

It's very common for a linehaul driver to make 100k in the LTL world. Here are some downsides:
Always running nights.....daytime runs are for guys that have seniority.....and lots of it.

Top pay at my outfit is .613 cpm..... $25.91/ hour....you get paid for EVERY minute of your time.

14 hours a day....everyday 5 days a week.

I work 5 days a week and and home on the weekends. If you consider being home on on late Saturday morning, sleeping till midnight or so and being exhausted Sunday, then back up and working Monday night a weekend.

You may work for a company where you have to work the weekends.

My company, I work the dock forb 3-4 hours a night in addition to running 500 miles, so your always in the move. But that's not typical, most LTL outfits don't let the drivers work the dock. (but that's where you make the extra cash).

Food for thought, hope it helps.