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Anybody else here work for them ?

I warned my cousin about Prime.He did not listen to me.He went broke and lived in the truck like a Dog..Needless to say he finally listened to me and left them and came to Landstar.

He is doing good here.He bought himself a new home and a nice used Harley withing 1.5 years.He is home whenever he wants and he is enjoying his life again and his wife and kids alot more..He has been with us for 3 years now and will retire here if he can..

Run away from Prime, they are no better than CR England in the respect that they will push their Lease program on you extremely hard. Look elsewhere if your just starting out, there are better starter companies out there.

WOW,

this goes against everything I've heard.......

Just remember you read that from posters that DO NOT work for Prime. I believe, in your original post, you asked if anybody worked for them...just sayin'

Don't know what you've heard, but on this site, we've heard all about them. There have been posters that have worked for them and bot the royal, gold-plated screws from them. If word would get out in all corners of the country, they won't be able to hire a single driver anywhere. Like the guy said, don't walk, RUN AWAY FROM THEM. We've heard too many things from far too many drivers about Prime. And, they're anything but "prime".

To answer your question, there should be others on the forum who also work for Prime.

i used to deliver to a place where there was 90% prime trucks. i have not talked to one happy one. one told me the owner does not care but the truck MUST hit 8mpg. he also told me that they even go as far as limiting you how much you can use the APU. now if this is all true or not.. i'm not sure. but the way everyone else talks about them.. i wouldnt be shocked..

Ok, I'll bite. What HAVE you heard about them?

I "worked" for them for about a week -- didn't make it past training stage, but that's because I discovered that OTR just isn't for me (at least, not right now). I got off the truck in Illinois and caught a Greyhound back to Tulsa, much to the dislike of my trainer (he insisted I was doing fine, but I wasn't). I formerly worked for Old Dominion, and loved every minute of it. But with Prime...I really didn't have long enough to get a feel for the place, and like I said, my experience in OTR truck driving is a measure of time you could count on one hand. I know that after reading most of the threads here at CAD, I'll probably never mess with OTR again. I just enjoy being home every night too much. City P&D seems the best fit for me, although Line Haul for OD was sausage gravy too -- $.55 a mile, 610 miles a night, then home that same night. If I had managed to stay with OD long enough, I planned to put in for that.

Prime, though, was a different animal. I was able to see that much. It may just be that OTR is markedly different from the global corporate LTL experience, but what I saw at Prime didn't frighten me nearly as much as the whole OTR world did. While I was at their terminal in Springfield, MO, I was quite impressed with the eye-candy of the whole operation, but appearances are quite often deceiving. I don't have near the experience most of the guys on this forum do, so take what I say with a pound of salt, but from the short time I was with them, by themselves they seemed fine to me, and didn't spare much expense.