Prime Loads

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{"text":"So….Prime took me off my load and posted it to their public load board. How do they expect me to lease a truck if I can’t get them to keep me moving? If they are selling the loads and not allowing me to use them to pay my lease and I can’t use their equipment anywhere else, how does that play out in the end? This week is my first negative payment and I am so mad. I didn’t do that to myself AT ALL. I was completely railroaded. And someone used a grease packet on the kingpin and I am FURIOUS. Not a good day for me at all. ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true,"externalShare":false}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Hey Prime! I did 2 & 1/2 lease purchases with them from 2004 to 2013. (5 diamonds in my gold ring, which I had to sell when leaving so that I had money to eat over the next coupld days while I furiously looked for a job with support of friends. That company has literally ruined and destroyed 10’s of thousands of lives and families sending them into financial destruction and divorces since the 1980’s. Also, you need to know the true story of Prime STinc. That feel good write up of Rob Lowe and his family is misleading. Prime STinc used to operate and based in Springdale, AR running loads for Tyson chicken there. The state of AR kicked them out for their “prisoner of the highway” lease tactics. That is when they moved and regrouped to Springfield, MO and got smarter about how the lease will be written. Keep your eyes peeled as yoh will still see the old 96 in wide reefer units with mudflaps printed ‘Springdale, AR.’ BTW, the quickest way to get 0 revenues on your lease is to start asking questions about everything I am telling you. FYI, Prime loads that pay the highest go to company drivvers first, then lease operators (b1tches) geg the second lowest rates, and the O/O’s (who dont know F of how to make money with a truck get the lowest end. There is no such thing as ‘line haul’ revenue. They vonfuse things with lingo they made up. Here is how you get your rate: The freight broker agent who works under the broker authority of Prime has there customer base and receives a liad tendered from a customer. The freight broker agent will then out of a ‘flat rate’ take there 60 to 88% fee first, The boker authority will receive a couple dollars for over head. Then the left over rate moves over to the ‘carrier authority’ side of Prime and they call the leftovers ‘line haul revenue’. The FMCSA and broker regulations do not allow an entity to ‘co-mingle’ monies, that is the law, and Prime conveniently leaves that out of your knowledge. Next, Out of the ‘line haul rsvenue’ $100 goes to Rob Lowe, then you the driver get a fuel surcharge calculation based on company averages in the gormula and NOT national averages, then the stop pay, detention, layover, bonus, etc., finally the cut that is to the truck is 72% for L/O, 82% for O/O with own truck, and 88% fir O/O with own truck and trailer. Certain math deductions have been put in place to ensure your compliance with the companies interests. For example, you want to go out of route by 50 miles to ho visit a relative, well you get charged for that even though yoh pay the fuel, DEF, and IFTA. Because they want to resell the truck with the lowest possible miles. Sometimes overseas, Mexico, etc. The Lease Programs of ALL trucking companies are designed to build you up, break you down, and make you walk away from the trucking industry so that you NEVER compete in business. So that is who you are dealing with. Someone who oppresses your free will by mandating you get tested and fitted for a CPAP or mandating that you be vaccinated because Rob Lowe is all about tickling your nuts in your pocket while fishing for every penny!","replyToPid":0}

815642

{"replyTo":"","text":"here's what you do take all your valuables out of that truck parking in the back corner of a truck stop light a railroad flare throw it under the bunk let insurance pay it and you're free to go","replyToPid":0}

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1071983 发表于 2021-08-10 19:26:06 10-4 this was a few years ago. I’m an O/O with my own trailer & authority.. They had some decent paying Smithfield pork loads coming out of my area so I had a good relationship with them up until they were not being straight with me. Long story short I had a frozen load on my trailer for 5 full days. I pleaded with them to let me return it to the shipper so I could move on. Smithfield would not allow it so I was stuck. The whole problem was the container my load was to cross dock onto was MIA during a winter storm.

","text":"Wow! That’s some Bull because that individual freight broker-agent (sales dept) should’ve found the nearest Cold Storage to offload you and reset delivery with another O/O when the seasonal weather calmed. The Carrier side does get options like that for L/O’s, O/O’s, and ‘especially’ company drivers on the company dime n time. If anything, additional layover and storage fees for your reefer usage should’ve applied for the extenuating circumstance. There is a law somewhere that states a carrier must be unloaded within 2 hours of arrival time, but, of course, that is why detention fees are tacked on because most receivers have poor dock and personnel management. 🤔 I wonder if that would also apply to a pre-determined appointment set with ‘Force Majeure’ preventing a timely completion. (???) As a small business, you cannot afford a week off. I am dunno. They (that agent) should have made that right with you by dipping into their own $$$% pocket. Did you pursue any claims with the head of the Logistics/Sales Dept.? Because if it is written in your load confirmation agreement then you could’ve pursued after their bond for compensation payment. Of course, your disadvantage as a driver is you must keep moving and cut losses because of no time to pursue all the red tape. (and they know that and use it to their advantage)","replyToPid":439569}

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1071983 发表于 2021-08-10 16:17:22 I am lifetime banned from Prime brokerage 😆 they couldn’t communicate with me on a frozen export load during the polar vortex a few years back..they told me lies and I got pis s ed.. that makes me the bad guy I guess?! 😆

","text":"You don’t want their lousy leftovers anyway. 👍😉 Better pay and less hassle elsewhere. 😁","replyToPid":439533}

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1274397 发表于 2021-08-10 02:06:00 dude kickin knowledge

","text":"This dude got royally screwed, now just don’t want to see other people suffer.","replyToPid":439481}

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1274397 发表于 2021-08-10 02:06:35 Rob Lowe the actor ?

","text":"🤣😂🤣 NO! His name is “Robert Low.” He hates to be called ‘Rob’ and he hates the name comparison and similarity to the actor “Rob Lowe” once an ‘80’s teenage statutory rapist and now Atkins diet freak.","replyToPid":439482}

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815642 发表于 2021-08-10 02:17:35 here's what you do take all your valuables out of that truck parking in the back corner of a truck stop light a railroad flare throw it under the bunk let insurance pay it and you're free to go

","text":"I’m pretty sure they’ve had lots of things happen to equipment. They don’t care because it gave them an excuse to hand over the last 6 months of your ‘illegal’ logs to the FMCSA for fines and maybe put a lien on your property until you make good with things. ","replyToPid":439483}

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1274397 发表于 2021-08-11 03:16:48 gotta say they do run some clean trucks and trailers though

","text":"Yes they do! (...at the L/O’s expense) Company drivers don’t get washes but every 2 to 4 weeks.","replyToPid":439611}