Having a hard time deciding

Hello to all drivers, staff, men and women thats on this forum. Iam a driver at Werner and not loving the experiences Im having with this company. I been with this company for 2 years, and now is the time I give up. Im getting low miles and sitting alot and way more. At the beginning Werner was ok for me, and sometimes I do understand at slow times its harder to get a bigger pay check, but now im almost not making any money at Werner. As I was reviewing online searching for companies, I found this trucking forum and took a look at it. After taking a good look at it, i signed up and started searching for a better company. Theres only 4 companies im interested in, Prime, Walmart, Crete, and Stevens. For Prime I wanted to become a lease operator and train to make more money. By reading whats on this forum about Prime, I would say its excellent. Drivers get miles, less sitting around, great safety record, nice equipment, and great leasing to for some drivers. Second I chose was Walmart due to having safe drivers and safety record to. Miles to drive and great equipment to drive. Third as far as for Crete, I dont know much about them, but their pay scale is really high and drivers there seem to average at least 2500 miles per week. And last I chose Stevens to due to the miles I hear drivers run. The equipment Stevens use and the way they treat their drivers. But in all mostly I want to get into Prime, I dont know if things would work out for me good. I never drove reefer so I wanted to get experience on the reefer division. And then train and become a lease operator to make more money. So out of the 4 im having a hard time deciding and wanted to know more about Prime. If anybody could help I would really appreciate it

 

Yes I hear smaller companies are good to, but since Iam interested in leasing and wanted to train to I think a big company would help me out more better. And how are things at TransAm??

 

Thanks. Walmart is a great company to drive for. They just ask for experience to be with them. Company driving is good, there are less things to worry about and stress. For hometime and other bills you have. With family leasing is very hard and I have a 8 months old son right now and leasing wouldent be good at the moment. I was interested in local company before but I just thought that staying otr would be better because If I would go local right now and stay there for the next 3-5 years I would have to go retraining again with a company. But since I wanted to make more money I wanted to try leasing to.

 

I dont know if theres any negative things about TransAm trucking because I havent seen. But they look lke a great company to drive for

 

As for lightweights I dont know nothing about them because Ive never been in one. If its not really that small and have some space around then it wouldent be that much of a problem. I think I do know enough to lease, but leasing is not everybody. Some do good some do bad. Me at first I was driving for Swift, and being in a truck with no apu, low miles and the pay was not that high after I had left and tried Werner. Werner was working out for me at first but at the end of my 2 years experience with them it got worst. Stevens is a good company, I read about them on the forum. But they are a training company and only think it would be good if someone was doing leasing with Stevens and train to. I will know soon