Slime I am still wondering how or why RU-vid directed me to your channel. I had no interest in trucking but me and my wife are now new and true fans and we wish you the best and pray for your success and safety. Go Get It Young Queen 👸🏾.
This video was very informative. Understanding why you make certain decisions or take certain actions removes a lot of mystery. Love this style of content.
BABY GIRL YOU ARE RUNNING THIS THING LIKE A REAL BUSINESS WOMAN!!!..ALWAYS CHECKING THE BOTTOM LINE...NOT JUST A TRUCK DRIVER!!!YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE GOOD MONEY DOING BUSINESS THIS WAY 👌 😉 ❤
Hey young lady I've been watching your videos from your solo, great videos keep the good work up and you will be rewarded , congratulations and safe rollerskating.
I enjoy your videos. You're a very talented young lady. Very smart and determined. You give young girls inspiration to get into our Industry. Godbless and godspeed, you're doing a great job!
Blind side backing should be avoided, ALWAYS! It's not worth the time, effort and risk of hitting something, shouldn't be done unless it is the ONLY option and it rarely is.
Slimepack I like how well you stick to your budget, and you are very knowledgeable about job. You take pride in your work and that's why you enjoy it. You display your skills very well. May I ask how long have you been driving? If I was a beginning trucker, I would gladly jot a few of your tips in my notebook.🤗Keep up the good work and stay safe.
With fuel...going out west....what I would have done is fuel up at the start then every once in a while fill up along the way and keep a full or close to full tank. Because you start out at the lowest price. Then it gets more and more as you go west. So instead of losing most of your fuel and then paying top dollar to fill back up out west...your fueling along the way and getting a slightly higher price. Then a bit further a slightly higher price. Keeping your tank full. That way you spend as little as possible and arent forced to buy 90-120 plus gallons at the extreme high end of fuel cost. Just my thought.
The question was not directed at me but I'm going to answer it anyway! Truck driving for an older person is a great career choice because you have accumulated life experience that will serve you well in this business. As a military person the disciple you bring will be a great asset because running efficiently, being on time, and taking care of the equipment are essential and it translate into increase revenue, and being older in not a stigma attached to truck driving, on the contrary, I'm 61 years myself and having the time of my life driving a truck, earning a great living and doing something something essential for our country, I hope you join us.
I’m currently training OTR with prime. Can you please do a video on tandem adjustments and specify why and how much it adjust? Also if you can do a reefer operation walkthrough on the settings , this would help so much. Please and thank you sooooo much!!!
If you are a TNT student your trainer should be showing how to do it, if not, ask him/her. If you are already on yout own truck you should calibrate your "WeighRight" on the trailer by going to a CAT scale or when you go to a Prime terminal (make sure you go through the bay with the scale, write diwn the numbers and after you're inside the terminal adjust the scale to the number with a flat screwdriver), then check the weight in both, the cab "WeighRight" and the trailer's. If you just got loaded pull away from the door leaving enough room to slide the tandems, check the BOLS to see how much weight you're carrying, if it's between 40,000-45,000 lbs start by moving them roughly to the 15th hole, it doesn't have to be exact, you are just starting the process, once you've done that check both scales, if you have, for example 34,500 in the front, keep moving them forward a couple of holes at a time without pushing the red button, the first goal is to be "legal" , meaning both weights are under 34,000lbs...after that you need to be balanced, meaning the load needs to be spread evenly front and back (roughly!) so let's say you ended up with 26 in the front and 32 in the back move them a couple of holes forward (roughly!) And check again (without pushing the red knob) if now you are 28F/30B that's good enough...now, the pin is still between holes, where should you push it towards?, hmmm 28F/30B push the red know and back up so the pin will land in the forward hole so the extra weight will go to the tandems, you're done...get on down the road driver!
All valid comments. Most of the trainers at prime Inc have no value. I had to learn it from a random driver out on the road. You guys can be really awesome out there. This wasn’t a trigger comment either. My trainer truly had no interest in training me. It all turned out ok though.
Thought you said near the beginning that you wanted to do tankers? Can you say how much the payments are on the Pete? Are those Lease/OP trucks govern to 65 also?
Thr payment on a Peterbilt or any other truck except a Volvo is roughly $1,200/week, the more important number is your "fixed" Weekly costs at Prime which is roughly $2,300/week...and the truck are governed at 65mph
I think the question answers itself...I think the more important question is could you go work for yourself if you wanted to? The answer is yes, but I wouldn't do it, the business is too complicated to jump into it with no knowledge, you are almost guaranteed to fail. I thought about it but the path that I chose was to train with a company that trained me for free (right! FREE doesn't exist) as long as I worked for them for two years, hopefully in those two years you will learn more about the industry, prove that you are a safe driver, a savvy business person, a good risk that insurance companies are willing to insure and then you will have more information to ask the original question.
Wait. I don’t understand why you’re paying for fuel for the trailer. You’re not leasing the trailer. The trailer is owned by Prime. So shouldn’t they pay for the fuel?
What does it matter? It's like the people who complain for "driving too long to,pock up the load", i.e. "deadhead", again...what does it matter? What really matters is how much are you making after paying for EVERYTHING! and believe you me, there are a lot of expenses in trucking...let me give you an example: Last week I hauled $8,400 worth of freight and the deposit in my bank account was average, roughly $3,500...you might say "that's less than half", yes it is but the important question is "AM I satisfied with it"? I am. That's roughly $180,000/year. Do you think I worry about 100 bucks on reefer fuel?🤣🤣
What are your qualifications to make that statement? Show me yours and I'll show you mine... This video just came on my feed and I don't see anything worth a negative comment, she's doing fine with the experience she's got, in fact I'd say she's well above average!
Is that the actual revenue for the load or an estimate? I did loads for prime when I was leased to Advance Trucking and I received those messages and Advanced said that prime pays an estimate from that amount. Is this accurate?
The estimate is the actual payment 90% plus, of the time, sometimes it may differ by a couple of hundred dollars but it makes little difference. The real question should be "how often do you get a $3.00/mile or more load at Prime? Not very often...a more normal load at Prime ranges from $1.00-2.00/mile with $2.00 being "a really good load". I got my start at Prime and I have no complaints, in fact it is a fantastic company to start your career, they take really good care of you but being such a big company they have to cater to the lowest common denominator in terms of dispatching, meaning they have to give enough time to inexperienced drivers, disorganized drivers and those who run slow time to deliver their load, but if you have an entrepreneurial mentality eventually you have to move on like I did and then $3.00/mile or more, loads become the rule rather Than the exception, but it comes with more responsibilities. Overall OTR truck driving is a great career, especially in the current economic environment. At Prime the lease operator can expect a take home check averaging $1,600-$2,00/week, is you have a business mentality and take charge if your operation you can do $2,500/week, that was my average, now I am working for a tiny fleet of 12 trucks where I now the owner personally and he can taylor my loads to accommodate my way of driving so my average has gone up to $3,500/week but you have to run a tight ship and there's no one holding your hand so you have to make sure your truck and trailer are running optimally all the time because no one is coming to the rescue if something goes wrong but it's worth is and very satisfying...and profitable.
