Comments By Dennis L

PS. I think you are not considering the mileage based performance bonuses that company drivers receive in your calculations.

Prime and Wilson are very similar since Wilson hauls Prime freight.

My base CPM is currently 57 CPM (52 CPM if in a condo). I’m 2 CPM higher than starting rate of 50 CPM after 2 years based upon rate increases for cumulative miles.

Weekly mileage based bonuses include fuel cost savings (largest bonus, mine ranges from 3-5 CPM), Service & Safety bonuses, health bonus, northeast region load origination bonus (I don’t get this very often).

There are other ancillary payments for stuff like detention time at customers, multi-stop pay, hazmat pay, shop downtime pay, layover pay, etc.

This week I got a $150 detention time payment. I’d rather have the miles!

So, my weekly performance bonuses + ancillary pay combine for about 6-8 CPM on top of my base CPM.

Hope this helps

Listen to Tucker Carlson interview with Calley and Casey Means. Then read their book “Good Energy”.

They have been advising RFK Jr and Trump about the chronic heath crisis with children and how to change it.

I still need to figure out how to eat better on the truck to cut out the ultra processed foods high in added sugar, high fructose corn syrup, bleached flour and seed oils.

Unfortunately we haul all of this garbage ultra processed foods. The meat that I haul isn’t organic grass feed neither.

Calley & Casey Means

Don’t believe the Recruiter hype. They get paid by getting new people in the door.

I’m a company Reefer driver for Prime for 2+ years. I run solo in a Lightweight Cascadia (1 person truck). I get a 5 CPM premium over the full-size condo drivers, my threshold for mileage based bonuses is lower than for the Condo and I get paid vacation every 85k paid miles completed rather than every 125k miles for the Condo.

I obviously don’t train in a 1 person truck.

I grossed $74k for 2023 on ~112k paid miles.

Freight started to slow down from April 2023. It is really slowing down this year, and especially in September.

I averaged 2,498 paid miles per driving week over 2023 (home time not included).

I’ve averaged 2,281 miles per driving week this year to date. However, for September I’m at 2,105 miles per week. Have been doing a lot of sitting parked this month. Doing it again right now, dang it!

I might gross $70k for 2024, but could be less with slower freight. I had a lot of shop DT in first quarter that I can’t make-up.

My average weekly CPM with bonuses was 63 to 65. It is coming down some due to less miles.

If I was in a Condo I would be making less because my CPM would be lower.

My Fleet Manager pushes every week for drivers to start teaming or training. Claiming that we will make the “life changing extra money” of $30k+ (so $100k+ annual). I’m not convinced it’s accurate unless you trained or teamed all the time. I also don’t want to team.

Prime makes more revenue and a higher “Return On Capital Employed” or ROCE on team trucks. So it makes sense. They can sell expedited freight delivery to potential customers (important for California produce loads going east).

I’ve heard that new drivers coming on board with Prime now will not be allowed to upgrade after TNT training to a Company solo truck. Will have to team or lease. I’m sure Kearsey will correct me if I put out “misinformation”.

My trainer taught me well, too!

A little girl about 5 yrs old gave me the arm pump today on I-20 in Texas. She had a big toothless smile. I gave her two toots. She waved her little hand at me as she ducked her head back inside the car. Her Dad also gave me a wave for making his little girl happy.

That warmed my heart after spending a lot of time sitting waiting this week.

Whoever controls the food & water supply controls the people. That’s been the game plan for a long time. COVID gave them the “crisis” to ramp it up. There is another “plandemic” in the works.

My weekly average paid miles trend follows the economic slowdown.

2022 = 2,550 mi/wk 2023 = 2,493 mi/wk 2024 = 2,281 mi/wk

I’ve been out 3 weeks now in September with 2,207 mi/wk so far.

These averages include all weather and shop DT, plus sitting waiting during loads.

Since April 2023 many of my reefer loads have an extra 18 to 24 hours than would normally be needed to make deliveries.

I’m sitting 26 hours on current load in Fort Worth waiting to not arrive more than 1 hour early at my customer 1/2 mile away.

Last month had two 34 resets that I didn’t need.

I’ve been driving 2+ years now for Prime as a company OTR driver. They are trying to spread the work around to give us all something.

Even though my CPM rate has increased over 2 years, my pay has decreased with fewer miles. I grossed $74K for 2023. This year I might make $70K, but could be less.

I had a lot of shop DT in 1st quarter, finally changing trucks in March. Unfortunately I can’t make it up as freight keeps slowing down.

I wasn’t driving back during the summer 2020 riots & looting (oops, I mean “mostly peaceful protests”).

Did any of you experience it? Any issues?

I’m old enough to recall the Reginald Denny event.

Way cool! Thanks for sharing

Best wishes BK for the surgeries and recovery. Don’t go stir crazy being off the open road for 4 months.

I’m having oral surgery on 7/15 for dental implant dentures. Only 7 days off the road.