Question For Our Prime-ates Here

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Truckin Along With Kearse's Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

Reaper's Comment
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Thats good, im really glad.

Tastebuds's Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

Yeah, thanks to Demon Turd. I'll be leaving sometime after midnight. Wanna meet up?

Phox's Comment
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It doesn't sound horrible but it's not great either... sounds like about $1000 a week gross, which 7 days a week is around $142 a day. Provided I was getting the miles, I was doing about $200 a day with Knight. I'm with Pride (Pride not Prime...) now and can do about $198 a day. I took a slight paycut in the cpm but getting more miles so making more overall. Knight I could only do 63mph with cruise control, pride I can do 65 plus up tot 68mph for 30 min a day. This allows me to go further in a day. I try to avg 9 hours a day at most driving, but sometimes have to do more (last 2 days I had to do 10 hours 45 min and 10 hours 33 minutes).

So you could do better than 700-800 net, but it's not bad. especially since Prime has inverters and APUs and stuff... eat out of the truck as much as possible and that money will last a lot longer than if you eat truck stop food.

Also the numbers I posted are not taking into account time to get loaded or unloaded but that varies so you can't really calculate that in...

CPM:

Cents Per Mile

Drivers are often paid by the mile and it's given in cents per mile, or cpm.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

APUs:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

Truckin Along With Kearse's Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

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Yeah, thanks to Demon Turd. I'll be leaving sometime after midnight. Wanna meet up?

Just got back from walmart. I'll be in the chairs at the bottom of the stairs blonde with blue tiger set

Tastebuds's Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

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Yeah, thanks to Demon Turd. I'll be leaving sometime after midnight. Wanna meet up?

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Just got back from walmart. I'll be in the chairs at the bottom of the stairs blonde with blue tiger set

Be there in a second, finishing up my dinner in the cafe.

Bud A.'s Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

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Yeah, thanks to Demon Turd. I'll be leaving sometime after midnight. Wanna meet up?

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Just got back from walmart. I'll be in the chairs at the bottom of the stairs blonde with blue tiger set

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Be there in a second, finishing up my dinner in the cafe.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Turtle's Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

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Yeah, thanks to Demon Turd. I'll be leaving sometime after midnight. Wanna meet up?

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Just got back from walmart. I'll be in the chairs at the bottom of the stairs blonde with blue tiger set

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Be there in a second, finishing up my dinner in the cafe.

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Pics or it didn't happen.

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Tastebuds's Comment
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Tastebuds... Are u in Sprimo? I am right now.

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Yeah, thanks to Demon Turd. I'll be leaving sometime after midnight. Wanna meet up?

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Just got back from walmart. I'll be in the chairs at the bottom of the stairs blonde with blue tiger set

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Be there in a second, finishing up my dinner in the cafe.

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Pics or it didn't happen.

Doesn't look like it will happen. I waited over an hour and only saw 1 blonde lady wearing a blue Ron Jon shirt, but she was passing through. There was another lady sitting in the area, but she had a blue shirt with pink pants and neither resembled a "blue tiger set".

Old School's Comment
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Blue Tiger is in reference to her headset for her phone.

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