Prime's lease deal. The math gets done.

Hmmm... why is it that's the way it works only in the minds of those not involved?

 

Probably for the same reason.. Where there's smoke, there's fire ..... " hey nice truck" tho

 

If one has half a clue about driving a truck and running a business, you can't help but to make money in a lease here. But you do have to have that clue. I figure if one is implying this is not the case they're clueless. Best keep groveling to the boss for those pennies the clueless keep scraping up every mile.

 

If a guy is leasing with Prime and making more money than a company driver how is he getting screwed? How is the company winning? Someone with a brain please answer, no truckstop 'Flease' BS please.

 

Prime wins because they don't have to pay payroll tax social security or medicare tax. That's on the driver since he's an independent contractor. The driver wins because if he can run the loads more efficiently than a company guy, and controls his costs carefully, he'll make more than the company guy, even with Prime taking its share of the linehaul revenue.

 

Plus they also skim a little off acc. charges that they bill the customer for and tell the lease operator that the will in turn be compensated 100% of what the customer was charged. This in fact is a lie! I was a flatbed operator many years ago for Prime and was in the office of one of Primes' customers when a lady was looking over some freight bills from Prime. She left them lay on her desk and walked away. I noticed a tarp charge on a load that I regularly pulled out of this customer. Mr. Low billed the customer $100 to tarp the load. He only paid me $50 to tarp the load. So if you figure we pulled probably 700-1,000 loads out of there per year that a nice piece of change Mr. Low slips into his pocket. Now that is just for one customer. Multiply that by the thousands of customers Prime has. Don't think for a minute that Mr. Low cares about you whatsoever. He cares about one thing and one thing only.....HOW CAN HE SCREW YOU OUT OF $$$$$ ANY WAY POSSIBLE. How in the world do you think he could afford to build that beautiful terminal?

 

Edited to another post.

 

There is no possibly way that after all expenses are figured in that a Prime lease driver is making more than a company driver. I know.....I have the settlement sheets to compare to what I know make as a company driver. I make more money now as a company driver than I ever did as a Prime lease driver. Also I get to sleep in my own bed everynight and don't live like a gypsy having to live in a truck for weeks at a time just so I can make the rent payment.

 

You with Prime now?

 

No, I got smart a long time ago and never looked back.