Prime, never been insulted by employer before.

Went to Prime Inc. or as they are really called New Prime Inc. first week of April in the lease program. Orentation, what a joke. your basically on your own with a sheet with times and locations. Never seen a orentation where they tell ya DOT and Feds are a joke and that you do what they say now the DOT or feds. anyway, so after about 2 weeks and not loads that pay, but according to them the loads paid 1.41 pm (loaded) but once you factor in 489 miles deadhead into it, ya, also you pay for reefer fuel. they don't even use DOE for fuel surcharge, running 3600-3800 miles a week only to get a settlement and be in the negative.

Now I cashed my 401k and took my big paycheck from last job to carry us thru on bills and feed us so i didnt have to get advances. Now I tell my dispatcher (FM) that something has to change or else. so we sit down with Mr. L himself( not Mr. Lowe), and have a chat. of course its a conversation of cicles with words to justify whats going on and that if i make even $500 take home that thats a great week with them. In other words, book you on frieght that pays fixed expencess and from there on, not even close to covering. so Mr L asks the wife, " do you have a CDL?" she replies NO.

He then asks why, she tells him, " I have seen what goes on out there and how drivers are treated even by those in dispatch on up and I want no part of it, its not what I want to do. I prefer to sit in pass seat and enjoy the time and ride with my husband." Mr L then looks at her and says, " your being stupid and sellfish(sp), you have no clue on what your doing to yourselves by not getting your cdl." then looks at me and asks if im willing to run team or train, I said no, he then looks at me and tells me then i wont make any money with them. hence, Im now at home looking for a new job. Because I refused to drive lease teams or lease train, I was starved out. I havent seen a paycheck since march. Now, my DAC. I never service failed a load, always showed up min 2 hrs before del, and had ZERO log violations, Yet they put on my DAC THEY let me go and that it was due to to many service fails, log violations, and refused to amny loads.

I refused 1 load because I was up all day, they wanted me to take a load and run it 565 miles and del the next morning at 7 am, and when i finally got them to tell me how much it was going to pay the truck, $400, thats including fuel and lumper fees. Now I get to sit at home and find a new job and some how get my DAC cleaned up. Now we see why that facility is so nice, you work for free while they profit. O, and if you think you get to do 34 resets, NOT! they will tell you against policy, that they will find hrs in your electronic logs to keep you moving. Been home week already and cant get one company to hire me thanks to these guys. prior to them, My DAC was CLEAN, I mean CLEAN. 3yrs OTR experiance, lots of central and west coast but have run all 48, winter, snow, ice, freezing fog, heavy rain, not a blemish, till these guys. O, and I stay out 6-8 weeks at a time to. before I forget, when I turned my truck in, leasing is tring now to charge me for repairs to the truck on things I wrote down on my inspection report before i sign the papers.

 

I am a OOIDA member. I have been in talks with them. thanks to them im filing a report with the DOT hotline and they are going to try and help me clean up my DAC. your right though, some one is going to still sign with them after reading this. Im really waiting to hear someone try to even justify Primes actions and what I did wrong. I played the fuel game, I always took the shortest route, I know how to read a atlas, trucker one even at that. But when You get a load, that is 1856 miles total, and loaded is 1300, and line haul pays $1100, its costs due to mountains and 45mph head wind the whole trip $946 in fuel and your paid $238 fuel surcharge, and 3.00 for ref fuel that costs you 36.00, and tolls on top of it because thats shortest rout and only way in to rec, which I did cut out 6 tolls by running back roads and it was shorter, ya, where did I go wrong? O, I know, I fell for the dream and lies and allowed myself to sign up with these crooks.

 

I don't see where any of thats a lie. Every bit is true like it or not. One can hide behind all the lawyers one wants to, but in the end, you will answer for your wrongs like it or not.