Started this company as a rookie with about 6 mont...

Started this company as a rookie with about 6 months experience. I went out on the road with a trainer for about a month, he pretty much had me sitting in the passenger seat and used my clock to run all the loads. i swear to god he drove 23 hours alone one night non stop, he just kept stopping to switch the clock around. I literally drove about 3 hours out the entire month. After training he recommended that I start off as a lease driver, claiming I can make a ton of money. I took his advice, after training I leased a truck with prime and it was the worst experience ever. They would have me sitting a lot telling me they don t have loads for me to run and some weeks I would owe them money at the end of the week. The dispatcher will play games with you acting like he doesn t have good loads when really he s just giving them to his favorite drivers knowing you have a $1000 truck payment over your head. As soon as you tell him you ready to quit he will give you a load going from Newark nj to Long Beach California. The lowest checks I had was negative $150 2 weeks in a row. it took me 3 weeks to get out of the whole. I never went home the entire time I leased. The truck payments were around $1000 a week. Driver pays for maintenance outside of warranty. So if a tractor tire blows you are responsible for it. If you damage the truck in any way you can be charged a large amount depending on how bad it is. You will pay for truck towing, no matter if you a company driver or lease. After about a month and a half i took that truck back to the terminal and switched to company driver. The experience was a little better. I drove with company for about a year then I decided to turn my truck in to move on to better things. I told them I wanted to drop the truck off at the Wilkes barre terminal. They told me I can take it there so I went there and turned in all my equipment and they inspected the truck. Everything was good. I payed my own way home because they wouldn t, whatever I just wanted to leave. I then applied for a new job and the company I wanted to work for denied me because I had abandonment on my DAC report. So I had to call prime to take it off, I guess someone did that out of spite I m not sure. Anyway If you thinking about going to this company I would recommend that you be a company driver, but overall I do not recommend over the road truck driving to anyone. The money you will make at prime you can make that doing something else. Do not waste your life here. I drove all 48 states and it was nothing to see. If I wanna travel I d rather go on trips with ppl I know. Over the road is not what you think it is. It s a boring senseless lifestyle. I gained a lot of weight living out there. I literally heard of ppl dying in the trucks for being unhealthy. Men are dying at young ages for trying to make a couple dollars in trucking. I m not writing this review to bash the company. I just want to inform people of what I went through. Thanks if you read this!