Before you go to work for prime you need to read this...

Before you go to work for prime read this.

I think you can do better with another company then prime.
My husband drove for them for about 4 months. He went to work for them with all the great benefits. He wanted to lease is own truck and become his own boss. Will the first 2 weeks of work was good. Because on the lease program he was on a program that make sure you make 1,000.00 a week. They do not take out the truck payment for the first two weeks that your our out. The third week out is when the fun starts... You start to pay for your truck payment on top of everything else. The totaling of all expences for the truck is going to be about 2500.00 per week. My husband is a dam great driver and he is very dependable drive. He was always on time never late wot any appt. He never took time off at home like he should have been able to do. He never refused aload, oh and you don't want to do that it makes them mad we heard. The frieght was not paying enough to make the truck expences and to make a living off of it.... So to all the drivers that want to work for prime as a lease / company driver beware they need you to work for them so they can pay for all all all all the empty trucks and the fancy building in springfield. That is no ####. Ask around,

 

stay as a company driver. dont lease. prob solved.

 

Sounds like he wasn't smart about the loads he took. I've been reading that the northeast loads pay the best - did he consider running the northeast? Also, running a lease truck is a business, and you need sufficient operating capital to weather the slow freight periods until things pick up again. Sure sounds like he may have been under capitalized.

 

yeah, but the comment at the end, she threw in company drivers also....Any reason for that comment, or just part of the rant?

 

Any pay issues we had w/ Prime as a company driver were quickly taken care of. The only time we had short miles were due to badly timed hometime. (And we knew that going into the hometime, and prepared.)

 

Mam, ya dont lease from nobody for aleast a year of trucking period. Ya dont listen to all the company whoola abt lease one shud stay company for the 1st year period.

 

If Prime, Inc. is so bad, why is it so successful?
Why do they have so many drivers that have been there 10, 15 years and even longer?
Perhaps your husband should have become a company driver for a couple years to learn the ropes, before becoming a lease operator.
Job hopping is not good; sometimes don't realize it until approaching retirement age. How many people have you heard say, "if I had stuck with that company, I would have it made now", with a good pension or fat 401K.

 

Wow $2500 a week for expenses...that is alot of money for a lease payment, fuel, tolls, insurance, and escrow accounts. What year of a truck was he going for? I know that when my husband goes into a l/p his truck payment is $550 a week, and then all fuel, insurance, escrow accounts, will be deducted on a weekly basis until escrow accounts are met. Whenever you do a lease purchase, the dispatcher must tell you the billed linehaul or the amount that will go to the driver along with the fuel surcharge amount. This way the driver can determine if the run is worth taking in order to make the expense every week.

 

how many times do we have to here this and everytime we give the same answers dont lease if you arent ready....as for company drivers i have no complaints at the moment miles go up and down depending on freight and other things and you have to prepare for the low wks which my lowest recently has been 2k mi but i was on the east coast that wk

sorry it didnt work out for him

 

I really don't like people who cannot accept.responsibility for their failure. That is all this is. As a brand new driver I have been successful so far.

As far as the company goes, Prime has a strictpolicy about NOT promoting the lease program to new drivers. Your husband had to request to be transferred from the company A seat training to the lease orientation. Nobody twisted his arm, and he had a 3 1/2 day class on the lease & all of its contents. He even took a test on what was taught.