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NewsOctober 7, 2014

Prime Inc. Orders 2,500 Reefer Trailers

Utility Trailers announced that Prime Inc. placed an order for 2,500 trailers, the largest single trailer order in the company’s history.

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NewsSeptember 25, 2014

Former Prime Employee Sentenced to Prison in Theft Scheme

Travis E. Honaker received a sentence from a federal judge in Missouri of three years and one month in federal prison without parole and was ordered to pay $945,200 in restitution earlier this month.

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NewsAugust 18, 2014

Judge Rules Against Prime’s Same-Sex Driver Training Program

A federal court last week issued a ruling against the trucking company Prime Inc. and its same-sex training program for newly hired truck drivers.

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NewsFebruary 26, 2014

Don Lacy Retires After 25 Years at Prime Inc.

Longtime Director of Safety Don Lacy is retiring on April 1 following a 25-year career at Prime Inc.

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NewsFebruary 5, 2014

Former Prime Executive Found Dead

UPDATED -- A longtime executive with Missouri-based fleet Prime died on Tuesday, according to the website of the Springfield News-Leader.

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NewsJanuary 6, 2014

New Prime Fined by OSHA for Retaliating Against Trucker

UPDATED -- An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that New Prime retaliated against a truck driver by blacklisting him in the commercial transport industry after he sought medical attention for a work-related injury.

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Articlesby Deborah LockridgeSeptember 25, 2013

Prime Inc. Uses APUs, Innovative Tanker System to Cut Idle Costs

Prime Inc., Springfield, Mo., has its entire fleet equipped with auxiliary power units to limit idling, with an automatic 5-minute idle shutdown timer. But its tanker fleet was experiencing significantly higher idling, because product had to be kept heated to the right temperature.

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NewsJuly 24, 2013

Prime Launches Military Fast Track Campaign in North Carolina

At the beginning of 2013, an estimated 844,000 veterans were unemployed and looking for work, including 252,000 post 9/11 veterans. According to the White House report, “Fast Track to Civilian Employment,” there is somewhere between 240,000 to 360,000 service members who separate from the military each year. A million more are expected over the next several years.

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Articlesby Deborah LockridgeJune 17, 2013

Idle Reduction Stories

In June's special fuel-savings issue, we promised you more stories about how fleets are cutting their idle time.

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NewsJune 12, 2013

Prime Drivers Compete in Month Long Bicycle Challenge

Mario Almendarez, a lease operator at Prime Inc., rode a total of 538.99 miles to win Prime’s 2013 May Bicycle Challenge.

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