Prime's lease deal. The math gets done.

How does this company stay in business? their recruiters must have tongues of solid gold

 

The recruiter I had lied like a dog.........

 

What people fail to take into account for ANY recruiter is that they ARE SALESMAN!!! No matter how nice they are, they get paid to put a but in the seat.

Why do people still sign a contract and say "he / she was such a nice person" How nice ANY person is (right down to the cashier in the cafeteria) in an organization has NOT ONE SINGLE THING to do with what the contract says, or how much freight you will get. Of course they are nice... YOU PAY THEIR SALARY!!!

The nicer people are to me that want me to sign a contract, the more reluctant I am to sign it and then I want to have it read by a lawyer.

It's all just smoke and mirrors to get you to ooooh and aaaah about "how nice the terminal looks", and that has nothing to do with how much freight you will get, just means they have a pretty building and are making money, or WERE making money at some point in the past.

 

With the fleece "they" are always making money until the whole system bottoms out and they are left with no drivers and a ton of trucks (that are very difficult to sell right now). (very similiar to what happened to the housing market)

I think Prime is a fair company, but many fleecers will be having difficulty in 2009.

Having a nice terminal is always an oasis, but home is always better. Fleecers may be living in their trucks in 2009. -it's going to be a tough year, 2 down 10 more to go.

 

When I first got started after leaving my Aunts trucking company, she told me that there are no such things as a perfect company and if there was, they ain't hireing. Over the years I have found fault with most of them but only two were bad enough that I would never work for again, of course alot of them are no longer in business.

 

This makes perfect sense to me dealing with 20 cab companies and 250 drivers at one time. I work in the dispatch office... we hire no one but dispatch for all of them. Every one of them has something bad to say about the company they are working for or the one they were working for.

When I get sick of hearing it I tell them to spend $250,000+ and make their own cab company and solve all the problems.

Most complaints come from not understanding HOW the mouse trap works (we are regulated by ground transportation, controlled by the city) and thinking that their idea is a better mouse trap... so build it.

Every body complains about the payment for the truck. Walk into a bank or leasing office and tell them you want a truck for NO MONEY DOWN and NO CREDIT CHECK and NO COLLATERAL and see what they say to you. I doubt you get anything but a kick in the but out the door.

Consider Prime a "Buy Here, Pay Here" car lot, you are going to pay extra.

I also have been looking at a lot of other companies complaints. Company drivers are the only ones that seem to be making any money right now. Sooooo,

I have a small tour bus company down the street from me that will hire me on. $14 and hour plus dead head / travel to stops on the route plus meals and hotels plus a PER DIEM on top of meals and hotels. Full time drivers are making 1200 - 1400 a week and I get to be home when not driving, it's close enough that I can walk to the yard. They are busy enough that they are buying 2 more buses # $400,000 each (they just bought 2 a month ago) because they are farming jobs out that they can't cover. You think papaerwork driving a truck is a pain... you should see it for a tour bus...

I don't think getting back into OTR is the way to go right now.

 

At least PRIMES not cutting people like MERCER with next to no idication or warning

 

most of the Mercer guys heard rumors, a driver I know spent 4 days in Louisville for a load, was nothing coming up so he bounced up to gary ,IN. and there were 20 Mercer trucks already there and some had been waiting for five days themselves

 

My neighbours 3rd wife's Aunts cousin , is married to a guy who has a stepbrother at MERCER said he was unaware that they were going to cut 200+ people in 1 swoop.

Freight was / is slow everywhere not just for Mercer

 

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