My Prime INC Experience. (A Running Log)

Ok gotta chance to plug the vitamins........you need to load up on vitamin C take a minimum of 2000 units a day every day all year long beef up on any auto immune supplements you want........I have been taking a strict complement of vitamins for about 7 yrs now and I shake things like colds and stuff right off, being on the road has its challenges, lack of sleep, long hours, ever present weather changes from time zone to time zone.........give your body some help, load up on vitamins..........give it 3 months you will see a difference......just a thought

 

I'm not JB. Basically, it's a sliding scale between whatever the low cutoff is, and the highest in the fleet. Where you fall on that continuum is what you get paid extra per mile. It can be quite lucrative. They keep changing the scale, and drivers on the road often just look at their settlement to see what they got that week.

 

It's maxed out at higher than 6 CPM now.

 

The day has finally come and I have submitted my application. I still have about a month and a half, maybe a little less, and hopefully SpringMo bound.

 

The minimum is set right now at 7.5mpg (correctomundo guys?)- you must achieve that as a minimum week-over-week. If you don't they'll check your truck out, weather can be forgiven, winter blend fuels, etc... but it is a requirement to be above that. In reality, its not that hard and most of our trucks are quite capable of reaching into the 8-mpg region.

So, lets say you have your 7.5mpg minimum nailed. For each 0.1mpg above that measured from Friday night to Friday night a week later, as downloaded from your ECM computer, you receive an additional 0.1-cpm fuel bonus in your pay.

Let's say you averaged 8-mpg for a week that you ran 2800 miles, and you are receiving the starting pay of 37-cpm, plus a lightweight bonus of 5-cpm. Without the fuel bonus you'd gross $1176.00. With the fuel bonus (you got +0.5 mpg over the 7.5 mpg minimum) you're making 42.5cpm for that week, and your gross is $1190.00 for that week. It adds up.

 

The application has been approved and just need to get a solid date to start orientation. I am ready to get into the Prime family.

 

we averaged 9.95 mpg this week

 

Nice. That's a huge bonus.

 

ye to bad im still on training miles. but ye it came thru the qualcom 9.95,

 

Trainees get part of the mpg bonus.