Hello? Im heading to Prime

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  1. U2Exit

    U2Exit Road Train Member

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    bte comparing me to a homeless person living out of a shopping cart is stupid... Yes. I should maintain and pay for a place that I get a couple days a month to use... It makes sense, thanks for pointing that out to me... dumb. My stuff is in storage. I have friends and family all over the country I visit... Im planning on going Skiing in Utah in Jan... Do you suggest I get a load to Missouri to get my car and drive there, wasting a few days? or maybe get a load to our Salt Lake terminal and rent a car?
    Sadly there are people who have to live in their trucks, sometimes trucking is a "last resort" job... couple guys in my class expressed this situation... their plans were to get the cdl and experiance to get an eventual local job and a place to live. I wish them well.

    saw the same thing when i was in the navy. by the end of this month my credit card balances will be zero and no rent payments has made this process easier.
     
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  3. pawpaw

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    Actually total commercial driving experience is over 5 years with one year over the road and the rest with local work. How much do you have? NONE.

    So if you don't "give a darn about all this Prime stuff" then why come here? This thread is for people who are seriously looking at Prime as a job choice and want to get information about Prime. Yo looked at them and decided you didn't want to go there. Just like you have looked at a bunch of other companies and decided you didn't want to go there. In another post you say you "think" about what companiesdo and tat is true because you have absolutely no personal experience with any of them and yet you come here and run up your post count to hoepfully mae some people think you know what you are talking about. But the thing is 99.9 percent can see right through your posts.

    Actually, you are so enamored with yourself and your "brilliance" that your posts are quite comical. They make for a great laugh. You "pulled the covers" on drivers making trainees drive at night. And just where did you obtain that wealth of knowledge; sitting at your keyboard or did you have a vision one night and decide to come here and give us your prophetic knowledge.

    If you are not interested in Prime, which is your own admission, and you have no actual knowledge of what Prime is like, which is fact because you have never driven for them, or anyone else for that matter, then why don't you get off this thread and quit wasting the space giving us your theories. Those of us who have driving experience want to help those who are looking for a job in this slow economy make the best decision they can. And the ONLY way for them to do that is to gather as much information about a company as they can. That means visiting every site possible, not just this one.
     
  4. pawpaw

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    Well said, U2. Actually, guys like mannmk7 and his friend DNA Mach do nothing but expose what little knowledge they have when they make the comments they do.

    Those of us who have been there know that APU's are the best thing in the industry these days, even for teams. With major cities and even states limiting idling it gets pretty unbearable waiting for hours to get a truck unloaded with no air. One only has to do a day time unload in Phoenix in August once to know that 5 minutes in an hour is not enough.

    Glad to hear things are working well for you. The reality is, if a person runs smart they can do well. What I have learned about Prime is they will do what they can to help you run smart. So have a good day in your cardboard tractor and don't get stuck under any bridges. LOL
     
  5. FLATBED

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    He seems to be PRIME OBSESSED:biggrin_25515: more than just PRIME is terminating drivers / L/O and O/O's for poor fuel mileage.

    He is suppose to a business wiz he should realize that it all impacts the bottom line $ wise and to cut the so called dead wood in the current economic state that things are in is the thing to do.

    There are people employed in many so called HIGHER class fields than trucking that live in next to HOMELESS conditions.
     
  6. Baack

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    This bickering is getting old
    You guys are posting useful info, its the fighting in between that needs to stop
     
  7. mannmk7

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    What I meant about the Prime stuff is the bad stuff. I come hear to see that not just all that happy horse **** will be offered up to new bee's. I want them to get the side I have picked up on. They will know that I'm a wannabe, they will know I've been here since May. The can make their decision accordingly. I come here because, like you said, 'I ticked somebody off ', (on the site that calls it's self a Prime driver site), with an important and valid question, and they they thought they were going to get away with turning the question around on me. Further more some of those recruiter type drivers think their gonna come over here and recruit, run their rap, sucking unsuspecting people. And I'm gonna tell the side I have encountered.

    Only a fool would believe that a person would have to be truck driver in order to make an evaluation of what's being said.
     
  8. U2Exit

    U2Exit Road Train Member

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    I can live with that... I started this thread, so back to topic... I will be happy to answer questions anyone has... and entertain any discussion related to any current or former driver topics including problems...at Prime. Wannabes can start their own thread.
     
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  9. mannmk7

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    I agree. :biggrin_25526:
     
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  10. pawpaw

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    U2, what do you know about the SLC and Denver terminals? Prime says I could chose between the two. SLC would put me 11 western while Denver would primarily run me west of the Mississippi. If you had to chose what would you chose?
     
  11. U2Exit

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    Im not sure about the regional stuff. I go country wide, so I cant comment on how they run the regional guys. Now if your question is about oreintation or training, they are fully functional in that regard. Ive heard that if they are out of trucks, they send you to another terminal to pick one up.

    As far as how the terminals are, Denver been there once, as I remember it, is a drop yard with a couple of temporary type office buildings. SLC, Ive been to a few times, has a good size building, drop yard, repair and wash facilities.

    Nothing beats the one in Springfield. Its a five star resort compared to any of our other terminals.

    Regional, I would consider what kind of terrain I would be covering. Runs tend to be longer out west, but population density is a factor in available freight. Ive had loads as short as 250 miles, and others that were over 1800. Longer tend to be region to region.

    I would consider regional out west, but I would like to find someone to pick their brain in that dept.
     
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