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You are required to tansfer your CDL to the state in which you are a resident within 60 to 90 days. Your legal physical address. At least in MO.

If you got your MO CDL through Prime then your CDL has the temporary address on it (with either the Terminal or the Campus Inn) The letter with which Prime gave you to give the MO DMV to get your CDL clearly states that it is a temporary situation.

It might not be a problem for your particular state, but you are currently running afoul with MO.

Also, If you are using a mail box from the terminal, MO may have not caught on, however its not a physical residency and it could catch up to you.

 

I was talking with my recuruiter about that. I have land in MO (but the house is not built yet) and have a PO Box in Gainesville, MO. I let him know that I plan to bring my boat out to the Kimberling City Marina and slip it there. I plan to live on my boat during home time (the Marina said I could use their address and my slip number as my address, although mail can not be delivered there). I am hoping they will let me keep my CDL in MO as that is where I plan on having my house built. He told me to let them know when I get to orientation, but he did not forsee a problem with that, since that will technically be my physical address...any thoughts?

My current DL is from CO, where I currently have my house.

 

Your mailing address certainly doesn't need to be the same as your home address - what's on your CDL. The marina will be your "tax home" as well. Sounds like the Colorado property is going to become a "vacation" home very quickly.

 

The renter I have in there is talking about a "lease to own"...that would be outstanding. One less headache, he is a nice guy, but about as handy as a mound of dirt.
Put my official resignation in this morning...February can't get here soon enough.

 

I am considerinmg moving to Prime as Co. Driver and have questions.
1. What is the Electronic Log Doing to help you?
2. How many Hours are logged on duty (3+4) on an average day?
3. Is it possible to get 3000 miles per week OTR ?
4. How are the company trucks?

Thanks in advance.

 

They keep DOT away from us! It provides the load planners with a much better view of our status, and which loads match up better for us. Since they log to the minute, I'm of the opinion that we have more available time per day to work than on paper logs. Its different than driving on paper logs because you can't stretch the envelope the way you could on paper - so everything has to be right the first time. That mostly means better trip planning.

That's hard to say since my days vary so much. I try to run about 9 hours on line 3, and whatever it takes to get the job done on line 4. My days tend to run in the 9-ish to 10.5-ish region, but can vary from that considerably depending on what is going on.

Sure. Consistantly? No. I'd think the average we get tends to be in the 2700 - 2800 mile range.

Good. If you get something with mileage on it, it has been completely detailed inside and out. They do necessary maintenance, and you are expected to do a thorough inspection before you take the truck out. Any maintenance hits are repaired before your first load. Prime has always been good about taking care of their equipment - although sometimes I have had to push a little to get things taken care of on the road, instead of being deferred to one of the company shops.

If they need to put you in a new truck to get you rolling, they will. There are lemons out there - sometimes these machines just refuse to work. I know that if you work with your FM, they will put you in a different truck if you show them a reason to. It doesn't do an FM any good to leave you in a machine that is constantly in the shop - they suffer financially from that as well as your lack of miles. Average age of the fleet is quite low - they usually are rotated out by about 3 years.

No problem.

 

they called me n everything was good till i worked for cash the last 3 years for my uncle n brother was not givin a 10/99 and they said i have to have a job that shows i paid taxes for the last 6 months

 

So did you file a tax return the last three years? They need something to show an employment record...

 

IP did a great job answering those questions, but I'll give my input as well..

Like IP said, it keeps the DOT away. On a few occasions now, I've been asked to hand over my logbook. As soon as I tell them I'm on e-logs, they lose interest and tell me never mind. Even if they do check, I have nothing to worry about. It makes inspections a very stress free ordeal. I know my truck is in good shape, my permits are always up to date, and my logbook is clean. Bottom line, e-logs are going to be in all commercial vehicles eventually. Either get on board now, or fight it and deal with it later. Either way, you're going to have to deal with it at some point.

Also, like IP said, sales, my FM, and the load planners can all see the available hours I have remaining. They've done an extremely good job the last couple of weeks with me. I've been bumping my 70 almost perfectly to squeeze every mile I can legally.

I've never actually factored this average out before. But if I had to take an educated guess, I'd say 9 - 10hrs give or take is a pretty accurate average.

Last week I ran 3,400 miles. Is this the norm? No. My average is also around the 2700 mark. But you can easily run more than 3,000 miles in a week legally with a governed truck. It just takes some planning, and you have to keep the left door shut as much as possible. I also had to deal with 2 snowstorms last week and one 12hr road closure due to a 100 car pile up in North Dakota. Still got the miles. E-logs will not help the "truck stop hoppers" or the lazy. But if you are out here to drive, you'll have no problems getting 3,000+ mile weeks.

My first one was used and a lemon. Started having trouble with it about 2 months after it was assigned to me, and from there, it was never the same. After about 9 months of going into and out of the shop constantly, they decided to give me another truck. By the way, I received breakdown pay and a paid for hotel room every time my truck had to go into the shop. So it wasn't necessarily an awful experience!

The second truck they gave me was also used, but I'm still driving it today and it's a very strong truck. I have over 400,000 miles on it now, and I know they'll want to take it from me in the next year or so. I'm not looking forward to that. All our trucks have APU's, etc. We have some of the best equipment on the road, and that includes our trailers.

 

Well I was sitting on the fence about Prime and the answers have helped very much. It's better having someone who's been there and done that to tell it like it is. The company seems to have a good overall rating among drivers.