Prime News

August, 2000 – Prime Inc., a leading international refrigerated, flatbed and liquid bulk truckload carrier headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, has won the 2000 “Quest for Quality” Readers Choice Award, in recognition of outstanding performance. Company representatives have been invited to the 17th Annual “Quest for Quality” Awards presentation dinner, to be held Wednesday, September 20, at the Omni Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, where they will receive the prestigious award. “Quest for Quality,…

Prime Inc., a leading international refrigerated, flatbed and liquid bulk truckload carrier headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, will join a nationwide celebration for truck drivers during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, August 12 – 19. The fifth annual event, sponsored by American Trucking Associations (ATA), honors the nation’s drivers for their commitment to excellence. “Prime has a long-standing tradition of attracting and retaining the best professionals in the trucking industry…

Prime Inc. recently celebrated the grand opening of its new Millennium Building, an amenities center unlike anything in North America. In honor of the occasion, Prime hosted an invitation-only reception and ribbon cutting on Friday, June 9, from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Prime Inc. recently won the Harvey Communication Measurement Award for advertising. Harvey Research, Inc., consultants in communications research since 1953, presented the award to Prime in recognition of advertising that achieved outstanding readership response.

Prime, Inc., a leading international refrigerated, flatbed and liquid bulk truckload carrier headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, recently teamed with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to stop the transport of illegal narcotics into the United States. Following the discovery that eighteen-wheelers were being used to transport illegal narcotics out of Mexico and into the U.S. through Texas and Mexico, a case developed out of the DEA’s Springfield office in June.

Dispatcher Ryan Summers: “Sampsons are good people. Easy to work with, (they) hire good drivers and put them in good equipment”.