My experience in Prime's lease program so far.

Yes, but legally if you are doing a reset in the truck sleeper, you have to show 8hrs of the 10 in the actual sleeper on your logs. If you do a 34hr reset you have to show 2x 8hr breaks in the sleeper. If away from the truck you can just log all the time as off duty.

What Im getting at is those 10hr breaks go fast so you likely wont want to be running all over town. Sure you will have plenty of times you do breaks over 10hrs but if you want to make better than "average" money then you want to be up and running as soon as possible each day.

 

So you had a bad time and now because of that everyone else has it bad? The simple fact is you didnt start off day one with your own truck and even if you did, no one would have hired you on with your own truck and you never would of gotten insurance anywhere.

The simple fact is as a new CDL driver you have to work for some other company for at least a year before anyone will lease you on with your own truck..Landstar, Mercer and non of those little mom and pop companies will bring you on with your own truck unless you have a minimum of a year's experience. Most smaller companies require 2 years..

The simple fact is you have to start somewhere and get that 1st year or two in before you can start pushing up your income dramatically. Also there isnt a truck job out there that you walk in day one with zero experance and make your top pay... Claiming you make more pay now is really stupid because its a given, that you should be able to make more money now vs when you 1st started.

Why do you keep trying to breeze over that fact and act like anyone can just jump from A to Z with out a care in the world?

Ive saved enough running my lease, I can go buy a used truck right now, but no one is gong to let me lease it on their fleet until I get at least a year in driving. Its a mute point to try and argue you can make money money than guys who have just started. If you couldnt you are really bad at this..

What I know is Im making more than what Id make 1st year at any other company who would of hired me. What someone else makes is on them.

 

Obviously someone screwed up the settlement for load, or whatever but its not like every load you get is like that..Not to mention thats obviously not a legit load or its a very odd repower, like it was dropped already at the 90 or something. As a lease op, you simply tell them no you arent doing it...

Problem solved.. Look, I will agree that Prime's rates arent the best out there, but its kinda what you have to expect running at a mega. They are doing bulk work so the rates you get are lower than some smaller companies who can pick through loads to get higher rates.