Prime Inc. teases launch of new division

Prime has already been trying to stroke the rice growers in our area. Their ignorance of this part of agriculture really shows.
They sent a sales rep to talk to a grower's association meeting. I almost felt sorry for the guy they sent. He didn't know the difference between field hauling during harvest, hauling from the dryers for export, and truckload shipments classed as freight. All he could say, and he had to say it over and over again, was "That's something we're taking a look at" which is salesman talk for "I don't have a clue and I wish you'd quit asking me questions."
He also said that they'd do everything they could to make the rates agreeable to all parties involved.
I don't know about every grower but the guy who hauls our rice this year will be the same guy who hauled it last year...and who's been hauling for us for fifteen years.
Sorry Prime, you showed us nothing.

 

Of course we wouldn't care if Foltz expanded their fleet. This is what they've been doing all along. When a Mega Carrier or Mega Broker comes into the Bulk Market, (Hoppers, End Dumps, Belt Trailers, Walking Floors), it can have very negative impacts on that sector. Especially the Bulk market, which is one of the few sectors left that is primarily a small fleet or an O/O on the truck side, and a small mom & pop on the brokerage side.

 

Oh, so a large company getting larger is better than someone else getting 25 trailers. Got it.

Maybe if whoever was hauling it before was servicing the customer how they wanted they wouldn’t have approached Prime. Or maybe whoever was hauling it before should’ve asked what kind of capacity they needed and figured out how to give them what they want.

Since JB Hunt currently hauls feed commodities are they allowed to expand hoppers more? After Covenant bought a feed hauler are they allowed to expand into hoppers more? I’m curious how this gatekeeping works.

 

And they’ll haul up to 80000.
Don’t know difference if 900-850 bu of different products, weight, 100 weight pay, tonnage, bushel, or tall trailers needed for midds or hulls.
Hauling mbm without vibratiors is asking for trouble.
Chicken meal/byproducts freeze in trailers and are such enjoyable to dig out with pvc.

Most i hauled last harvest was 105k
Year before 117k.
I bet their trucks don’t have load guages.

 

They have SmartWeigh boxes on their reefers, don’t know why their hoppers would be any different. And in the video it said all their trailers have vibrators.

 

Didn’t see any on rhs.
Takes more than one per side.

Hoppers load different than reefers.
Time you stand outside and watch trailer gauge with product falling from an overhead, Run jump in teuck(using three point contact) pull up, you’ll be over axle on truck.

one in truck when you get to your mark yiu already have truck i. gear and go to back hopper, where you put load matters too, to far forward is like sliding tandems up on weight distribution.

One of mine has 4 shakers, oversize ones they do good, but none on slope and can be a pain on meals.
Other has 6, i’ve still dug out products,
that’s all on the driver, you get paid nothing to unload.
Oh, customer wants washout nearly every load, especially after meals, but, they don’t pay to washout, they may say it’s included in rate, but as maury says, “That’s A Lie.”

 

I had one down low on drivers side on each hopper and one on each end slope. I hauled a lot of DDG during all seasons and never had an issue. And using air gauges isn’t rocket surgery. I’m sure out of how ever many thousands of drivers they have that they can round up enough for 25 trailers. Plus with everything set up the same their training is going to be streamlined. “When your truck gauge reaches X then pull ahead and load the back until your trailer gauge shows X”.

Even on my truck I could’ve sent someone out that’s never done it and told them how to load. Load the front until the gauge hits 47, pull ahead and load the back until it hits 90. Drop the back axle and go.

 

Whoops, I lied. I didn’t have any on the driver side, only right side and on the end slopes.

 

Mine have one on each slope, 2 on each trap curbside and ds are hooked to one switch.
Their position is just like this trailer in photo.

I dug a lot of corn gluten pellets out a few months ago.
And chicken byproduct last winter driving on snow/ice that froze in trailer.

the road conditions