I'm wondering how he knows any of this. This guy's first posts are in December when he says he is tired of his life and has applied to Swift, Roehl and Prime. By the first week in January he's saying that he rejected Swift and Prime - and his subsequent posts are all in Roehl threads. So exactly how is this guy a "former Prime driver?" IMO, he's just another guy passing around false BS that poses as the truth around the web. It does no one any good... especially folks like the OP who is looking for information, not BS.
In my experience no one is allowed to push leases at Prime with the knowledge of management. There is no "bounty" paid for introducing someone to a lease. In my nearly three years on the company side NO ONE ever mentioned the subject of leasing a truck to me.
On the subject of postive vs negative posts... heck yeah. You can find plenty of negative posts about EVERY carrier over in the Bad Company threads. It's interesting to count the number of bad threads that appear about a carrier and use that as a metric as to whether they're really bad, indifferent or OK. You'll certainly find folks who had a bad experience at Prime, and ya know what? That's fine. Different strokes for different folks as they used to say. Not everything they do at Prime is OK with me either... but on the whole they haven't PO'd me, and none of what I don't particularily like about Prime is enough to send me somewhere else. Personally, I like the "green" I'm making over here enough that the rest doesn't bother me.
Companies that train, pay while you train, and aren't quick to wash you out
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mje Thanks this.
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The same could be said about Prime. Their positive posts sound almost too positive (no problems what so ever, everything perfect). Almost like their plants from Prime recruiters. -
I read somewhere that Prime fronts the money for food during orientation and also pays $650.00 a week during driving with a trainer. If this is correct, that's a good deal. Central Refrigerated also sounds very good.
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Both programs seem pretty good from what the rectuiters have told me, but I have to remark on what another user said about the Prime forum. I have also noticed the same thing. I am choosing between Prime, Central, and Millis, and the forums for each company have been REALLY helpful. But there is something that seems suspicious about some of the Prime users on their forum. More than once I have had the feeling that their are recruiters or trainers or plants that are protecting primes reputation. I've seen this on non-prime forums too...i dont get it. They get really defensive when other people have prime horror stories, and leave posts that try to blame everything else but prime. I know if i drive for Prime, i'm not going to troll the forums and become some company defender.
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The other big plus I see with Prime, is they have reefer, flatbed, tanker. Drivers can change divisions without going thru the hiring process over and over again.
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Not defending him, just sayin'. Having said that though, Prime would be on my short list decent starters.
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