Did Prime Miss a Gear?

It's that a radar detector on your windshield, Scottie?

 

You could have 'read' and reacted sooner before the left lane was full of warm bodies and caused you to slow...Always Read others- Yeah I Know it Sucks- (Extra work to do) But If you want to stay ahead of these other motorists, You gotta stay Alert.

Years ago..You could sleep while driving and Not be in anyone's way

 

after about 19 seconds of your video, why did you not react sooner, (after that last big truck passed you), and slow a bit, rather than to catch up to him, so that you could get out of that lane when you had the chance?

seems to me, you're griping about not being prepared, rather than the Prime driver going slower.

glad i only lost 19 seconds of my time, rather than the full 4 minutes.

 

That's what Prime is teaching them. They claim you get better fuel mileage going down a hill at 55 than you would letting it go to 65...

 

Prime trucks bog down a lot on hills when driven the "Prime way" they want you to set the cruse at 55-57 and leave it. The trucks have adaptive cruise so they will drop 3-4 mph before the turbo pressure will go above 15psi. So 6-8mph is just thrown out the window hitting a hill waiting for the cruise to kick in and the turbo to spool up.

Thats only the beginning, there are other factors that contribute to it. It's hard to keep a prime company spec truck from falling on its face at the beginning of a hill.

 

Dude, its Prime. He is a15 yr Veteran, STILL on his first load.
He hit the speed limiter on the way down, and that's all she wrote.

 

It's rare, but maybe he downshifted at the bottom of the hill so he could pull the hill without shifting.
ive been trapped behind them when they do this, because I never expect it