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

The same principle applies, the appointments are normally firm, so there is no "extra load" to be gained by delivering quickly in most cases. So the company drivers drive slow to increase their fuel bonus and pay. I believe Prime just raised the fuel bonus given to company drivers, so I couldn't tell you exactly what it is, but I believe it used to cap out at 6CPM.

 

Sounds like your Cascadia might have a problem. The company I just left I had a brand new 2013 Cascadia (got it with less than 100 miles on it), and no matter how I drove or how heavy I was, the thing wouldn't go below 7MPG, and I did a lot of I-81 from NY to VA, and I pretty much kept it maxed out at 63MPH.

 

I'll tell you what's annoying is when you got a slow truck trying to pass a slow truck. And they take 15 min just to pass, that makes me ######

 

And what's this bull#### about all trucks being set to 65? Let's see some links to back this up..Does that mean only megas because not many trucks even go over 63 at these huge trucking company's. What about lease operators or OO, 65 is too slow even for a company driver, but they expect owner ops to stay at 65? FTHAT LOL

 

Used to be,

other drivers complained because prime trucks were some of the fastest-sorry-trucks.



AND,

Swift trucks were the slowest............






how times change.......

 

Swift, Schneider, JB Hunt used to have the same specs on their trucks and all 3 companies were governed to 55 mph. Hmmm, 3 of the most successful companies in America!

 

Pfffft...... Ive seen prime's idea of "fuel economy" , they dictate what rpm you can run at, then threaten to turn your truck down if the bozos in Pittston see on the computer that you aren't driving to what they think is driving a truck...of course all of the info they give the drivers is mostly for the fleece purchase condo's, company drivers who run the coffin sleepers are basically kept in the dark, mainly for the purpose of "pressuring" to lease purchase without making it obvious(the prime cheerleaders can shut up as far as I'm concerned, the are just office people watching message boards pretending to be drivers). The coffin sleeper can't even get above 5.8 mpg even empty, and the "lightweight" junk isn't even light weight.(especially since they are so patched up from constantly being wrecked by the idiots put out by the prime training dept.). I drive a Volvo that has gotten 8.0 or better with a 42,000 dry load at 65mph, and WALKS up hills even with that kind of load. While the prime drivers sit goggle-eyed and staring straight ahead like micro-managed zombies. So much for prime's mileage procedures.....