Tag: Prime Inc.: Page 2

Business

Prime boosts pay

Prime Inc. increased pay for its OTR company drivers, independent contractors and associates. OTR company drivers (paid on the per-mile basis) started receiving a one cent per mile increase for any loads dispatched after August 3, 2013. Line haul revenue for independent contractors increased four cents per mile during the last year.  According to the […]

August 29, 2013

Business

Fast-track CDL program for vets

Prime Inc. recently launched the Military Fast Track Program in Fort Bragg, N.C., designed to help military personnel make a successful transition to the civilian labor market. The campaign is part of an incentive to help increase veteran employment opportunities following the Military Commercial Driver’s License Act of 2012, signed into law last year. Through […]

July 24, 2013

Life

Prime driver comes out on top of company cycling competition

Mario Almendarez rode a total of 538.99 miles to win the carrier’s 2013 May Bicycle Challenge.

June 18, 2013

Channel 19

Sunday service on the road

Introducing Pastor and Prime Inc. hauler Bob Sauter’s CDL Drivers Church of Delivery, with worship service over the phone every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Central time.

May 11, 2013

Business

Prompt updates to fleet data can help scores

Use the MCS-150 form to update annual vehicle-miles-traveled and total power unit data for your fleet, measurements you have control over and which figure in Unsafe Driving and Crash Indicator BASIC measures.

March 18, 2013

Business

Who’s keeping score: Carrier use of driver-ranking tools

The final installment in our investigation of third-party driver-scorecard services details carrier practices using the tools to rank current and/or prospective drivers in the perspective of CSA.

February 15, 2013

Business

Who’s keeping score: PSP is driver-info ‘gold standard’

FMCSA’s Pre-employment Screening Program is the only place to find full driver-specific detail of the information contained in the Motor Carrier Management Information System database that underpins CSA.

February 11, 2013

Business

Prime drivers complete triathlon

Seven Prime, Inc. drivers competed in the Revolution 3 Olympic distance triathlon relay and aquabike in Anderson, S.C.

October 22, 2012

Channel 19

Mustang’s 3-million-mile, one-truck haul nears end

Owner-operator Mike Crawford is approaching 3 million safe miles all logged in the same 1994 Freightliner — wish him luck on the final 37,000…

September 6, 2012

Channel 19

More O/O challenges: Image, health, parking…

After primary reporting on owner-operators’ top five challenges, sources offer their personal sixth — from parking, training standards and health to driver image and industry unity to influence public opinion and regulatory direction.

August 16, 2012

Channel 19

Equipment: Probing sticker shock

Reports from operators show roughly a 30 percent rise in new-tractor pricing between 2006 and 2012 model years. Find out how operators are reacting to that rise — and some advice — in supplementary reporting on the No. 5 top challenge to owner-operator businesses.

August 10, 2012

Channel 19

The forces at work on detention pay

Operators and industry reps weigh in on the problem of uncompensated detention time at shippers and receivers, and what is being and could be done about it. The problem was No. 3 in Overdrive‘s 2012 poll of top challenges for owner-operators.

August 6, 2012