Nickel Tour

Sounds like a huge waste of money traveling around to see who can blow the most smoke up your butt. The best facilities and training staff in the world isn't worth a steaming pile if the company treats you like that steaming pile once you're in your own truck.

 

Not sure if prime allows you to wander around their facilities. Interesting though....

 

Prime is a good stepping stone I've heard. Get trained properly for flatbed. Than after a year or two go to a smaller company that gets things done. And pays much better.

 

Just pick a company to go and train with. You can go and visit other companies for a vacation. They all kind have the same stuff. They might give you little tour but you can't just walk around the trucks I would guess because of insurance and not being an driver for them.

You can drive about 120,000 a year and multiple that time the pay rater per mile and you can see how much a year you will make. Since you planning on living in RI you will probably see all those difference citys driving thru them. You could save the vacation money for later.

A lot of new drivers get burned out or find out the job is not what they thought and quite. So it might be nice to have some extra money if need.

Don't do the lease purchase thing until you know you like the job. Even then the lease purchase is bad deal.

 

LMAO. That is silly idea to visit every trash yard at different companies. No matter how bad my opinion regarding Prime for their greed and treating drivers like numbers and slaves that has no voice or comtrol over anything including loads, my advice dont hesitate, go to Prime, it is the best what you will get out there from the start.Prime is training company, everything is oriented on students.All that show off, video presentations, vests, company store etc. Moneywise you will not get nothing at prime, around 1000 per week.Dont listen what others say, it is all trash talking and false misleading manipulation. Been there, done that. At Prime you will get no more than 1200 per week average no matter where you are company or lease as solo.
Get trained, survive for 1 year living in the truck, and run, run Forest run. Let them do their thing and suck dry other freshmen.
Go to Prime, you will learn a lot there but thats about it, no money. Well 1 st year kind of sucks, you will get humiliated no matter where you will start, they will use you( will give you heaviest and cheapest load through mountains routs), abuse you ( will not listen your concerns, will give you constantly loads that you will run over your clock, will penalize you for leaving trailer less than quater with fuel, or not washed out) and so on.
Just get a grip and ditch them after one year and move on proud never look back.