Prime Reefer Drivers

My co-driver n I have been getting great miles

 

Lucky u just started tnt and haven't hit 5000/wk yet

 

You will.... it all depends on your fleet manager n what he gets ya. And how far yall can run in a day

 

They pay a premium on company regional in the northeast to make up for shorter runs. I averaged about 2800 miles a couple of years ago on the company side 48-state OTR.

Hope you newer guys are keeping track of this stuff so we can update the "experience database!"

 

Average over 3000 miles a week as a company driver, but not regional, I go where ever they send me. 3487, 2695, 3216, 3764 the last 4 weeks. The short week I sat for 3.5 days and did nothing, my FM was on vacation.

 

This question is geared toward IC's & the lease program. Read where Prime is guaranteeing 100,000 HHG miles/$102,000 revenue. If you work your fuel mileage to a T and keep all your ducks in a row, on average how much of that $102k can can you bring home as income?

Also, on average, what is the general break-even point?

I know I can't expect exact figures but just looking for rough estimates from current/former IC's with Prime. Oh yeah and before I forget, does Prime use elogs or paper?

 

Can't answer the rest of your questions, but they use elogs.

 

That's the guaranteed minimum linehaul revenue averaged over a 100,000-mile interval. Doesn't include fuel surcharge, and accessorial payments. If you're good at keeping your costs down, you can think about 25 to 30% ending up in your pocket. Through the end of the second quarter, I've been grossing around $1.73 per mile, but that will drop a bit this quarter - July sucked for me. I'm sure others had different experiences.

Depends on your fixed costs of course... they vary for everyone depending on which truck you lease, where it is in its life-cycle, etc.

I break-even at $1.25 per mile... its gone up a bit with fuel costs this year.

Elogs - it really hasn't affected me. The additional data that the load planners get has kept me busier than when we were on paper logs.

 

Ditto what IP said... & I'll add a bit of how I work it....

There are variables you have to take into account as to what your exact "break even" point will be for any given load... if you're running the northeast that point will be higher naturally than elsewhere... tolls, price of fuel along the route, what kind of fuel mileage you can expect on that route, etc, are all a part of the picture... so to nail down one set figure for any & all loads is an impossible task.... it varies.

Then again, you may want to take a load that doesn't pay all that great simply because of where it's going to take you... I had a perfect example of that a couple weeks ago.

I got sent a dairy "Charity Run" from Winchester VA to a Wal-Mart DC Shelbyville TN... pay was crap, it's heavy & you're in the mountains on I-81 & the TN hills of I-40 all the way... so fuel mileage will blow goats... the only good news is that fuel prices in VA & TN aren't too bad... so why would I take a load that ends up netting me about $300 for a 600 loaded mile trip?

Well, for openers, the shipper has overnight parking available.... so I can hustle down there, do a 10 right in their lot & run it down in 1 shot... then when I get unloaded in Shelbyville I'll be sitting right on top of the Tyson plant right on the other end of town.

Right on cue I get a Tyson 2 stopper ending up in WI... which when you add up the linehaul, fuel surcharges, & stop pay ended up over $1.80/mile... on a route that I can get near 8 MPG on.

In the end I had one of my best weeks to date out of it... but if I'd turned down the Wal-Mart run I likely wouldn't have... sometimes you have to think about more than just the rate on that one load before you refuse it.