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Prime Inc termination policy

Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by anon6655, Jul 25, 2014.

  1. Jul 25, 2014 #1
    anon6655

    anon6655 Light Load Member

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    Whatis the mmagic number of your csa points that Prime cuts you loose at? I know KLLM is 8, I got 3 points because of some bs ticket, I'm a lease operator and would like to
     
    anon6655, Jul 25, 2014
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  3. Jul 26, 2014 #2
    DustyRoad

    DustyRoad Road Train Member

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    Depends on the violation. Reckless ..speeding....carry more weight and can get driver fired. Dot inspection not as bas as moving violation.
     
    DustyRoad, Jul 26, 2014
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  4. Jul 26, 2014 #3
    anon6655

    anon6655 Light Load Member

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    Driving in the left lane? Trying to pass a slow moving car
     
    anon6655, Jul 26, 2014
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  5. Jul 26, 2014 #4
    teqntexas

    teqntexas Medium Load Member

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    wow, kllm is 8 points? wow, lets see, have a headlight out and forget to log that pretrip? cya... that's pretty harsh... but maybe they had to due to the 85% unsafe driving..youch!

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    teqntexas, Jul 26, 2014
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  7. Jul 26, 2014 #5
    anon6655

    anon6655 Light Load Member

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    If you get caught, yeah basically.
     
    anon6655, Jul 26, 2014
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  8. Jul 26, 2014 #6
    anon6655

    anon6655 Light Load Member

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    My trainer was "following too close" and going 7mph over and got a written warning, they canned him a month later. Basically written warnings are cops chicken #### way of ####### you over
     
    anon6655, Jul 26, 2014
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  9. Jul 26, 2014 #7
    flatbedder

    flatbedder Medium Load Member

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    If ya get fired over silly stuff like that, you probably are better off somewhere else anyhow
     
    flatbedder, Jul 26, 2014
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  10. Jul 26, 2014 #8
    skellr

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    Won't last long if your busy smooching goobers.
     
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  11. Jul 27, 2014 #9
    Cowpie1

    Cowpie1 Road Train Member

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    Kinda stupid for a carrier to "cut someone loose" over a low CSA point accumulation. If a pattern of racking up points is showing that would be one thing. The Carrier is still going to carry the "ding" on their CSA score from a driver even after than driver is let go. So the carrie gains nothing by cutting someone loose over a something like 8 pts. Or even a couple of violations in couple of years. The carrier is still going to have whatever the driver did wrong on their own score for 2 years. It is spotting a pattern by a driver that they are gong to be a long term problem should be the criteria.

    But then, Prime has it's own particular weirdness going on. Has for years.
     
    Cowpie1, Jul 27, 2014
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