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As I understand it Macro 15 is still the shortest most direct legal route.

Macro 27 will avoid some tolls adding miles, and some times send you an extra 10-15 miles for some cheaper fuel.

 

Answers in red.

 

Couple more questions,

can someone tell me the different prices on primes health and life insurance

Single coverage for just me
and family plan

whats the deductibles and such

Thanks

 

Company drivers have to follow the Macro 27 routing correct?

 

mont not that ive been told i usually follow the routing from 15 bc sometimes it differs from 27 and i usually have the routing from 15 1st fm never ssid anything about it sometimes the gps has a better route and have heard anything about following it instead of qc

 

Well, not that I've been company recently - but...

Company drivers are supposed to follow the fuel route on macro 27 to the letter. However, it depends on your FM... I had an agreement with my company-side FM that I could deviate from macro 27 when appropriate for short periods. I'd get his approval for anything like 100 miles or - and he'd never turn me down.

You'd better be ###### sure about what a GPS is routing you on, because more than one driver has been in an accident because of the routing he got from it. I can recall at least one flatbedder in a roll over on a road that wasn't STAA approved, and then there was the guy that didn't quite make it across the flooded out bridge recently. Its also lead to a number of topped trailers - when are they going to learn that 12'-7" just doesn't work for a 13'-4" trailer?

 

Ive rarely used the 27... Ill follow the 15 if it works out. I always check the GPS routing against the 15 AND the atlas. Have seen Prime routing be wrong too. Always check the map. If any questions, I call Prime.

 

DTB thanks for the answers. going to talk to a recruiter soon. would like to stay in FL but could go back to WI if necesary. Debating between Roehl, Millis, and now Prime.

 

Heard that little bridge story on the safety CD... It's technically not flooded as water is supposed to flow over it. This one had ice. He never should of been on that road in the first place anyway.

I've never seen one till I came to Prime. First week here our shuttle driver took us out into the country for some reason and we crossed a creek with one of those flow bridges.

As for Macro 27, company drivers are supposed to follow them unless restrictions, marked detours or approval from your fleet manager.

They really aren't going to know unless you go where trucks can't go and you get a ticket... Or you blow off the routing around the toll road , take the toll road, and someone catches the toll charge... Then you could possibly be hit with the toll bill.

Another problem they were really hard on a year or two ago was blowing off your fuel stop and calling the fuel desk to open a different station do a driver could take another route.

I like IP have an arrangement with my FM. I've got blanket judgement on weather condition route changes. Also there are a couple routes I can just plain avoid and he'll eat the toll.

Some of you smarter individuals probably already know how to get the computer to route you the way you really want to go.

 

Hmmm, I follow 27 to the letter, but I also know what your getting at U2. I always compare the 27 routing to my Rand mcnally before starting out, and a lot I'd times I end up training my GPS the correct way to go. I have gone off route a few times, but that was mainly because I was unfamiliar with the roads and missed my turn. Nice thing about 27 is it gives you routing from whatever location your at. Unfortunately for us company guys we can only request a 27 every 11 or is it 12 hours?