Prime has the SLOWEST sorry trucks on the road today, it's not even close

You are forgetting something, time worked.

2500 miles a week at 60MPH vs 50MPH averaged is about an extra 8.5 hours to cover the same amount of miles
It's not free money, your days are longer by driving slow to make the same miles.

As a company driver it's not worth it, an O/O... sure.

Here's an example

Take driving 110,000 per year at .40 per mile as a company driver

Driver A averaging 60MPH earns $44000 taking 1,833 hours of driving time
Drive B averaging 50MPH earns $49000 (including $5k fuel bonus) taking 2,200 hours of driving time

However that $5k comes with driving an extra 367 hours and those hours comes to about $13.60 per hour to make that $5k
If that $13.60 per hour bonus money for driving slow is worth it to you, knock yourself out

Break it down even further at yearly 110,000 miles

Driver A: averaging 60MPH earns $44000 taking 1,833 hours of driving time which comes to $24 per hour of driving
Driver B: averaging 50MPH earns $49000 (including $5k bonus) taking 2,200 hours of driving time comes to $22.20 per hour of driving

In other words a company driver is earning LESS $ Per hour of driving by going slow.

The Fuel bonus is just a scam to milk the company driver, as simple as that

That bonus in reality comes to you working extra hours or "overtime" for $13.60 an hour woopeedo $13.60


fyi I do make jokes on this site, be careful before you judge.. including my math.

 

The speed with or near the flow of traffic is the safe speed.
Going 52MPH in a 70MPH zone makes the road LESS safe.
Drivers continuously hitting their brakes, changing lanes due to Mr. Slow guy ... increases the odds of somebody making a mistake.
Missing their blind spot, rear ending you.. etc.

Safety at Prime probably has come excuse because they make more money out of you by going slow, but common sense is common sense and it does not make the roads safer.

 

The point I was trying to make is they don't pay enough to company drivers for the "fuel bonus".
Driving slow is really just you working more hours, my personal opinion is that if I'm driving an extra hour per day going slow to save fuel it better pay in translation to me earning at least an extra $20 for that extra hour of driving.
If it takes you averaging 50MPH vs 60MPH to earn an extra $5000 over a year of driving it's not really worth it for the amount of extra hours you put in. Whatever general averages you use to formulate what you're getting paid on those extra hours... it's just not a lot.
If it's you buying the fuel, then yes it's worth it no doubt.

As far as going slow and accidents, there's ton of info online about the risk.
If you're in Nebraska in straight wide open road with not much traffic, it's no big deal.
In traffic and curving roads etc.. yes it causes more risk there's no denying that.

Who cares who's at fault in an accident if someone is hurt or killed, it's just not worth it.
Going 15-20MPH under the speed limit generally just is a hazard.
Bad weather it's a different story sure, but the point is why be a hazard.. why take a chance?
It's not worth it

 

It's not "my point", it's common sense of safety, a fact and well documented.. do the research and see.
Here's one such example of quoting both a cop and US Government researcher which said the very same things I was saying earlier:

"A couple of decades ago, Jim Gussler was pulled over while driving 60 mph in a 55-mph zone on Interstate 5 in California."Traffic was crazy and whizzing by me," he says. "It was the first time I'd been to California and the first time I'd encountered traffic like that."
He thought the officer was going to issue a ticket for driving 5 mph over the limit.
"Nope," Gussler says. "He politely explained that I was impeding traffic and needed to match the flow of traffic. He also explained that a slower vehicle was more dangerous than a speeding vehicle."

In 1964, a U.S. government researcher named David Solomon wrote a paper on the subject of speed and crashes. He found that those drivers going the median speed of all traffic -- not necessarily the speed limit -- had the lowest risk of collision. He also found that the crash risk increases more sharply at speeds below the average traffic flow than above!

That's a quote... not my point or opinion.


Driving at a speed vastly under the flow of traffic does makes the road less safe.
There is no debating that and safety is the most important thing.