Being a company driver, you don't have all the expenses like a lease or O/O. You work, drive miles you get paid.. You don't run miles you get crap pay..If you wan't to be a O/O, save up your money, get your own authority, and purchase your own equipment.. I never understood why people would want to lease on with a mega carrier, which only allows you to pull their own freight, but you have to make all the payments and repair bills, as if you actually own the equipment.. No brainer leasing any equipment from anyone Mega carrier is purely stupid.. Fine there are those who have success, but what is the percentage compared to those who don't succeed? No one can or has ever provided that info..
Prime's lease deal. The math gets done.
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It's a 95% failure rate.
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On average every week prime has 50 trucks turned in. Out of that number 50% are lease completion, 30% are picking up the new truck they custom ordered before their lease was completed, 10% are because they couldn't make it work for them, and 10% left trucking for medical, family or retirement reasons.
Of the ones that couldn't make it, the biggest reason is poor money management, not understanding that this is a business, and thinking their dispatcher was a travel agent.
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Just in case anybody is thinking about prime; this thread was the deciding factor in choosing to go with prime. The loaner truck isn't really a thing unless ur gonna be on breakdown because u need 3+ weeks of repair. I sat for 1 1/2 weeks for repair. Got put on loaner list 3 times, went to get loaner 3 times, only for them to keep telling me; "peterbuilt says it will be done tomorrow." So no loaner...2 weeks later, and drained of any savings from hotels+food+ bills at home and nothing coming in, truck breaks down again. 5 days I sat, can't stay in truck at dealership w/ no access to food or water (hadn't built up money to have significant # of supplies in my truck) so here we go with hotels, no uber so have to grab a taxi $$$. 6 days later truck is fixed roll out for another load, truck broke again in nowheresville, USA. Still havent caught up from before. 40+ ppl on loaner list so if I go to sprimo or any other terminal how long am I waiting for loaner?! Who knows? Can I go company? Sure...if u go w/ a trainer for 20,000+ miles b/c u have idled too much. Really?! Been driving for years....apu was broken and couldnt afford anymore repair......."Help every driver to be successful." "Didnt run smart." Oh, thank u for pointing that out..........
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They will. I don't think the whole company is bad. Have no idea what it would be like running company for them. I have made decent money running for them as lease but when u sit on breakdown for a while and start adding them numbers up while u eat ur last bag of chips from the vending machine (and have no more change) it gets real. It gets real. Just please, anyone looking at this company; take that lease contract that reads like a deposition from an attorney to AN ATTORNEY. Its not meant to be understood.
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as a person that has done a little bit of everything even trash hauling, the only way a lease works is that if you get % not by the mile and you can actually pick your freight or atleast have a saying on where you going. try going into good paying lines or atleast with consistent freight not getting also remember a truck is a work tool and when you are paying 600 dollars a week for a truck you better make sure that is paying itself.
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I'm still with prime. Not sure I'm gonna leave, just really not feeling what's going on here......Lonesome Thanks this.
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