Listen in iTunes Prime FeedBurner Safety Podcast Prime BuzzSprout Safety Podcast In this release: CSA Scores, Winter Driving, HoS Questions, Respect Customers, Routing Change, Get-Over Law, Tanker Endorsement, Tires, Pickup Reports, Convey for Special Olympics, Maintain Your Lane, Road Assist Improvements, Prime’s Fittest Driver, Navigation and Mobile App, Respect.
Thomas Miller, an independent contractor who drives for Prime Inc., recently became a captain for America’s Road Team, the first person with Prime to receive this honor. America’s Road Team is a nationwide public outreach program, led by an elite group of professional truck drivers, to promote safety. Thomas is a professional truck driver with 17 years of experience (including 14 with Prime Inc.) and has accumulated over 2.5 million accident free miles.
If you want to start your truck driving career with an industry-leading carrier, look no further than Prime Inc. We have grown and expanded tremendously since our inception in 1970. Drivers with Prime Inc are some of the most qualified and highest-earning truck drivers on the road, and it all begins with our exceptional training program lead by top instructors.
During the Friday morning Safety Meeting at Prime on July 5th, there was a very good discussion about the various issues Prime instructors and trainers are facing. After that meeting, I received the following email from Terrence McLaurin, an example of one of the outstanding drivers we have here at Prime. Below, Terrence discusses how he works with his students on driver health and wellness.
See what Mike Crawford, one of Prime’s success stories, has to say! Mike Crawford began driving for Prime Inc. as a company driver in 1994 just to see if “things worked out.” Today, Mike has accumulated more than three million accident-free miles in the same truck he leased just weeks after he joined the company.
The recent recession left its mark on many industries in the U.S., and America’s truck fleets and companies didn’t escape the pressure. Yet the trucks kept rolling down America’s highways during those lean years. How?
