Prime inc or Millis Transfer

I was a company driver at Prime. I can say they never pressured me into a lease. If you dont mind staying out for 4 weeks to 6 weeks at a time Prime is a great place. I dont know anything really about Millis. I was at Prime back in 05 so I never worried about the 60 MPH trucks they have now, mine was set at 71 which was AWESOME! You never know, when you go out with your trainer you may want to stay team and talk your trainer into running a team on the truck and not training anymore. My trainer wanted to do that but I wanted to see what it was like on my own. I look back at it and if I would of stayed with him in his truck I would of been making a good bit of money with as much as we ran.

I would also reccomend staying with your trainer for the 80K miles so you would start out at .34 CPM(not sure if it is higher now). As for money I dont know what the avg is per week now because when I was there I was on paper logs and the QC was not looked at and matched to my logs so I would "run hard". Prime's equipment is awesome and very new, when I was there they got rid of the truck once they were 3-4 years old. My company truck was an 04 and had 270K miles on it. They are also very good when it comes to breakdowns and maintaining there trucks.

 

Prime's trucks are set at 62 on the pedal, and 65 on cruise - company or lease. If you don't meet the minimum company-side fuel economy requirements they'll turn them down from there - but with the new engines that's hard to screw up. Don't understand why you think that company drivers receive less loads/miles than the lease side does. They run our butts off either way - at least until you throw in the towel and set a long PTA.

As far as American Trucker and his views on leasing a truck are concerned, again, I'd consider his very minimal experience in the industry. If you try to run a lease truck like a company driver would, chasing miles, then yeah - you're going to have problems. We have a lot of very successful lease drivers here, it's not hard to make money on the lease side. I will say that your FM can make or break you at Prime - unlike some other carriers. They do have it set up in a way that makes it financially painful for a FM to go out of their way to make life difficult for you.

 

I love how you always through that little number out there.

So before 3 years ago what did you know before you walked into your truck driveing school? Nothing like most Newbies?


I've been around trucking ALLOT longer then that, i remember my dad going through truck driveing school years ago and reading through all his books and learning as he learn about trucking and trucking companies and the industry, so Please dont try to compare my limited OTR experiance to your 3 year Trucking Industry Experiance.

And just since you always seem to forget I've had My Class A Since March 28th 2008.....so that's a little more then 3 years....




American Trucker

 

Says 0 to 1 year genius. Why don't you stick to commenting about all the carriers you've actually had experience with... like WS.

 

let me slow it down for ya Forest (0-1 years OTR)

Why, because allot of people come onto this forum all excited and full of Big dreams and ideas that people fill there heads with. Then they run out into trucking and screw themselves by either working for a company that will screw them like Werner or CRE, or they will get in WAY over there head with a lease.

And I did say in my OP in this thread that some L/O's are sucessfull and make more then company drivers, and some even get to hold a title to a old POS truck some day. AND i said he needs exp first......I didnt say DONT LEASE NEVER LEASE DONT GO TO PRIME. What I also said was go to millis, because they run a smaller area, can get you home more, care more about their drivers then prime, and dont even offer a fleece deal.

Just because I havent worked for either doesn't mean i dont know anythign about them.....



But by all mean you keep on thinking your better then every one because you have a wopping 3 years exp as a rent-a-trucker...


For some reason you take everything people post as some sort of personal attack against you or prime, you like prime and your happy leaseing a truck, good for you. Its certainly not for everyone.







American Trucker

 

You don't know jack about my carrier... keep it up.

 

I wasnt judgeing you at all, I just wanted to make sure you understand both the good and bad on what you were talking about. And as far a negative post lol Well you need to hear both sides. If you go and read just the positve post about CRE and then go to work for them, your still going to get screwed, but you wont see it comeing, had you read the bad post too you wouldn't even be there.


anyway good Luck, with getting your CDL.




American Trucker