Prime Regional, And Other Concerns...

Im seeing exactly what you mean,, I came to Pittston as an A seat experienced driver and signed up for OTR, but instead it turns out its nothing but northeast regional freight.. I live in the northeast of course, but even if you live in an area, you will not see home for 3 weeks even if you run near there. Loads are 200-400 miles loaded, and during the winter count on getting stuck in Maine most of the time dealing with roads that Maine DOT can't even clean off when it's sunny out, not to mention the idiot log& woodchip haulers, as well as day cabs that try to shove you off the road because the crummy single tires can't get any traction. Also if you are reefer they will put you in a "lightweight" truck, basically a coffin-sleeper, low power, cheaply built POS to live in for those 3 weeks. They have on-guard, lane departure, burgled alarms that rarely work at all, and the on- guard is prone to slamming on the brakes without warning. As a company driver in orientation, most of the info you are given is geared towards lease operators, issues like hometime requests, pay, fuel routing are completely vague, some of the people in Pittston either get pissy or evasive if you try to ask anything specific, sometimes they will reply as if the driver is supposed to be kept in the dark. Asking over the Qualcomm also gets very little back, if they answer you at all. They have a captain of the ship policy for if winter weather hits and it's too unsafe to drive, but again, some of the people in the Pittston terminal still seem to forget about it. You can't refuse loads if you are company, the .05 lightweight truck pay and .05 north east pay is more to make up for the lack of miles. Expect about a 1600 weekly average for miles if you are lucky, because you will be hauling the garbage freight the lease-ops and trainers don't want.

Maybe if you like to become a lease/ owner operator or trainer, tanker or flatbed running 48 state OTR I could recommend Prime. If you are looking for OTR with the reefer division, avoid going to drive out of Pittston. There are smaller reefer and dry ban companies that will respect you more as an experienced driver, pay you a good rate for miles and give you the good long runs without the idiotic micromanagement( like Prime's Optistop).

 

[/QUOTE] If you are looking for OTR with the reefer division, avoid going to drive out of Pittston. There are smaller reefer and dry ban companies that will respect you more as an experienced driver, pay you a good rate for miles and give you the good long runs without the idiotic micromanagement( like Prime's Optistop).[/QUOTE]

Are these issues that are generally Pittston issues, or Prime in general?

 

If you are looking for OTR with the reefer division, avoid going to drive out of Pittston. There are smaller reefer and dry ban companies that will respect you more as an experienced driver, pay you a good rate for miles and give you the good long runs without the idiotic micromanagement( like Prime's Optistop).[/QUOTE]

Are these issues that are generally Pittston issues, or Prime in general?[/QUOTE]

My opinion is that it is a Pittston issue. I ran out of Springfield and had none of the issue's that he has had.

 

I think so too. From what I see and hear Pittston and Salt Lake City aren't quite in line with Springfield.

 

Pittston never did work like Springfield... the sales contract for TRL specified that the dispatch unit would be transferred intact. They've been running the way they did at TRL, and it ran that outfit into the ground.

BTW, this time of year the miles are down throughout the reefer segement. It's a yearly thing. And... that 5-cpm NE bonus is there to make up for the shorter runs, not to make y'all a millionaire.

 

From what I've heard, it's mostly Pittston, if there is a choice for me to run out of Springfield, I was never really told by the recruiters, I pretty much assumed before orientation that I would be driving OTR out of Pittston or Springfield.

 

Well I guess I'll try to see what my options are, either I try to get changed to Springfield. , or I take up an offer that my old dry van company still has open.

 

Anyone know the driveline specs on the new 014 tractors. I'm looking for trans, rear axle ratio and tires. Are the condo and lw tractors geared the same, but different engines..?

 

Unfortunately they put you in NE if you live up that way... like you do. They also bill it as a trade-off between cash and hometime. Sorry it's not working for you.

 

I was thinking about looking into Olney. I'm from south of stl and see Prime trucks deliver to my local Wal-Mart do they give dedicated runs out of there that I could deliver by my house on a regular basis?