I'm Headed To Springfield Prime Fri

Quick question...I noticed Rainey and Splitter commenting on their FM on another thread and that he was a good FM. Can a recruit request a FM by name at Prime?

Thanks

FMs are assigned depending on your trainer and whether you go company or lease. FMs are specifically company or lease...for.this reason they never pressure the company drivers to go lease. i make my FM a lot of money and he would lose a good driver if i went lease.

Therefore, im a company trainer, when splitter went company, he got.my FM. if he went lease he would be put into a pool that they assign people.

If your trainer was a lease op, you MIGHT be able to talk to a couple company FMs and try to get assigned, but you wouldnt know any unless you went asking around. and truthfully...drivers either love theirs and will do anything for the FM or they hate them and jump to another fleet. so many drivers think theirs is the best.

Kanelin here from TT and i met at the terminal and argued over whose was better. turned out we had the same guy lol

Thanks for responding Rainey. My plans are to go company only. Maybe I will get lucky with a good FM too if Prime takes me aboard. :-)

Thanks for responding Rainey. My plans are to go company only. Maybe I will get lucky with a good FM too if Prime takes me aboard. :-)

Word of caution. If you get a lease op for a trainer, they will pour it on thick to try convincing you to go lease. They get a nicer bonus if you do. I always tell rookies to yes them to death & stick to your guns. There’s just too much a rookie doesn’t know to be profitable as a lease op. Good luck.

Thanks for responding Rainey. My plans are to go company only. Maybe I will get lucky with a good FM too if Prime takes me aboard. :-)

Word of caution. If you get a lease op for a trainer, they will pour it on thick to try convincing you to go lease. They get a nicer bonus if you do. I always tell rookies to yes them to death & stick to your guns. There’s just too much a rookie doesn’t know to be profitable as a lease op. Good luck.

Thanks Splitter.

Fake News

I had a lease trainer. It doesn't matter to them at all if you go company or lease.

Their bonus are retention based. Once you pass your tests they get a bonus. Once you upgrade and get your own truck they get a bonus. If you stay with company for a year they get a bonus.

Have absolutely nothing to do with you going company or lease.

Thanks for responding Rainey. My plans are to go company only. Maybe I will get lucky with a good FM too if Prime takes me aboard. :-)

Word of caution. If you get a lease op for a trainer, they will pour it on thick to try convincing you to go lease. They get a nicer bonus if you do. I always tell rookies to yes them to death & stick to your guns. There’s just too much a rookie doesn’t know to be profitable as a lease op. Good luck.

I don't know anything about the bonus thing, but a lot of lease operators will try to convince you to go lease. I see it every day in the various groups. In reality, I think they're just trying to convince themselves they weren't suckered into a raw deal.

My L/O trainer actually suggested that I stay company, as he knew he wasn't making any more than a good company driver. He began training simply because he couldn't make enough money otherwise. That was straight-up honesty, and I appreciated it.

Not that I needed any convincing though. Common sense already told me the game was skewed.

The FMs get a bonus when you test out too and if you stay on their fleet as lease, they make more money which some of these FMs refer to as a "bonus". Give the FM a well trained driver and what happens? brownie points ie "bonus". whether company or lease that is true.

I disagree about the money being close to the same for lo and company. I've added up my miles to the rate of what I'd make if I was company and both amounts are very far apart. It all comes down to you, how you manage your clock and your dispatcher. I'm lease and I've never felt worried about payday and infact I'm surprised on most fridays because I wasn't expecting the amount to be higher than I thought. I took off a week for labor day weekend and the load I had before going home I made the mistake of accepting it to close to my hometime days. It dumped me 800 miles away from home but there was a death in my family and I needed to be home. So I deadheaded those 800 miles took a week off and STILL made a good paycheck. To be honest I really dont see how lease and company could be close unless the lease driver has a bad dispatcher , accepts low paying loads, or doesn't like to work. But lease is not for the long term. You'd be foolish to keep renewing a lease. That's ALOT of money you'd be out year after year.

Austin, I can't make any sense of this. If you are confident you're making considerably more money as a lease operator, then please explain this further remark of yours...

But lease is not for the long term. You'd be foolish to keep renewing a lease.

Can you explain that to us? Because if I am confident I've found a great way to make more money as a Truck Driver, I'm sticking with it for the long term.