Prime, Inc. - Springfield, Mo.

Mack,

The terminal I was speaking of was a break terminal, and trucks were sometimes late creating a slowdown.

The problem was this terminal was well known as a slow break terminal. The dock workers could have gotten second jobs as sundails. You knew if you went there you were going to sit a while.

I have been there for over six hours waiting for a load, while if I went to any other termonal, I usually would be out as soon as I could drop and hood up another set, and 30 minutes to 1 hour at most.

Most terminals we had to uncouple and put together our doubles.

The company eventually got bought out a few times and was sold off, mostly in pieces.

 

Ive noticed that the negative talk about PRIME is the posters that post here daily (must be school bus drivers). Alot of these folks start driving truck and cant run more then 300 miles a day or cant run 600+ miles a day continuously, which equals money!!!! So they get the worst loads and wonder why they dont make money and quit, then they post on these websites and complain about England, Central , Prime, etc...... Its funny to see, but I hope they find a company that can accomodate them so they can fit in somewhere! DRIVE SAFE

 

Some of us don't drive rigs anymore, sure. But we used to. Some of us even drove 600-700 miles a day or more, day in and day out back when we DID drive. One day we got fed up with it and got out.

There are several reasons I myself got out after accumulating about 400K miles in about three years. I'm sure these reasons apply to others, too.

Let me name a few reasons, just for your entertainment: insane driving requirements and schedules, sitting at docks for hours (mostly unpaid), CDL BS, DAC shenanigans, company games and lies, being kept away from home for weeks at a time, not knowing if I'd have a job tomorrow if I had a backing wreck today, being treated like a lower life form at docks, at DOT ports, by my company, even by my friends, the low pay for the number of hours I put in each week, the lumper game, the grocery warehouses, the sedentary lifestyle (it's dangerous), and the map miles scheme. These are but some of the reasons I threw my CDL in the garbage.

 

The same problem exists if you are buying a truck or leasing it.....If you don't save ahead.....when you take time off you're behind. You have to plan ahead. Any O/O will tell you the same thing. Whether your truck payment is $300 a month or $800 a week.....if you don't plan ahead....you're sunk. Granted.....the $300 would be alot easier to recoup! LOL

 

Very true! Especially if you are a Lease Operator.If you want to be home all the time and take three plus days off, YOU WILL BE BROKE!
Skull

 

One big advantage leasing on with Prime (and some others to including my company) If you get hurt or need time off for some unseen event you return the truck and thats it!!! Prime has the walk a way lease (Success Leasing). Some others require you to pay 300-500 dollars for breaking the lease, but that is alot better then buying a truck and having getting hurt or need time off for extended amount of time and your stuck with those payments everyweek, they continue on!! even though you cant drive!
I talked to a Marten driver last week and he says he signed a lease/purchase for 5 years with Marten and if he returned the truck for any reason, he was still responsible for those payments until Marten found another driver to lease that truck!!! That would suck!

 

I think it would take a real idiot to sign a 5 year lease for a truck. That is insane!!!

 

John Christner (JCT) is the same way, lease a truck for 5 years then its yours!