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

im pretty sure Don Lacey retired

 

my o bucket of bolts is just as new as your old bucket o bolts.

3 days, @ 50 mph. 3000 miles. ALLRIGHTY THEN.

 

It doesn't matter how slow they go cause they always have students and drivers lined up to do it. Its about what you can handle. Some people like Prime and the way its run.

 

Well it doesn't bother me at all, prime can drive 25mph for all I care, it ain't messin the money I'm making up. Just stay in the slow lane and enjoy the snails passing you all

 

Ever hear of recap hours?

You make a lot more working your costs than you do enriching the oil companies to get that extra load. Not being paid cents-per-mile, but on percentage pays off big time.

 

It was very rare that I was running up against my 70 at Prime. I remember one week I spent in the NE running mainly loads in the 2-300 mile range. At the end of the week I had 1,995 paid miles, and my net for the week after taking out tolls, was almost $3,000.

 

All I know is this. There are many companies with fleece deals. I see their trucks going all different speeds. But 99% of the Prime trucks I see are going 60mph or below.
Personally, I think it's a result of brain washing!

So part of the reason you go that slow is appointment time for the run? Isn't that also controlled by Prime? Why give you a load that would require you to run 65? Dont you think the company has this down to a science?
Be safe out there.

 

I always hear $70K net. What exactly is 70K net? So what? How many dollars did you actually take home after taxes and health-life and retirement. I took home 110,000, after the truck expenses, paid 36 % to the IRS, $6000 for insurance and 12K retirement. That left me with an actual income of 54K of actual income and I didn't write any off for perdiem until I reached that amount. So almost 10K was food etc on the road. In actuality I made 44 Thousand for a year and I made $100,000 a year as a Engineering Flight Test Mechanic. McDonnell Douglas sold out and I didn't want to go to Seattle and work for Boeing so I retired early. You have to own 3 trucks to make decent money, run teams and trade trucks every 430,000 miles. That way(my bookie says) you don't owe the Irs, Trucks are all under warranty and you have nice equipment to run. You can google the 65 MPH rules which go into effect Jan 1 2015. Lots of proof. Find it yourself.