An asset carrier that is easy to onboard.
If you place freight for a living, what you want from a small carrier is simple: clean authority, real insurance, a truck that shows up, and someone who answers the phone at four in the afternoon. Here is everything you need to put us in your system today.
Illustrative photography — not Prime Trans equipment.What does a 3PL need to onboard a carrier?
A 3PL typically needs a signed carrier packet, a W-9, a certificate of insurance naming it as certificate holder, proof of active FMCSA operating authority, current safety scores, and banking details for payment. Most of it can be sent the same day the relationship starts.
Everything, in one email.
| Authority | MC 1575910 · USDOT 4120654 · active interstate authority, verifiable on FMCSA SAFER |
|---|---|
| Insurance | Auto liability $1,000,000 · Cargo $1,000,000 · General liability $1,000,000 · Workers' comp [Statutory / on file] · certificate issued direct from the agent naming you as certificate holder |
| Registrations | RMIS and the major carrier programmes — current status is listed on the Compliance page, including anything still pending |
| Tracking | [ELD provider] ELD; Trucker Tools or MacroPoint on request; check calls at pickup, midpoint and delivery on request |
| Paperwork turnaround | Signed BOL and POD the same day, photographs attached |
| Payment terms | Standard net terms; we do not factor, so there is no third-party assignment letter to chase |
Be specific and we will be reliable.
- Carolinas vehicle capacityNine-car and three-car equipment, daily in the Upstate, most days into Charlotte and Atlanta.
- Two scheduled long lanesCarolinas to Dallas and Houston three to four times a week; Carolinas to Minneapolis twice a week. Both directions, and the backhaul is the cheapest capacity we sell.
- Dedicated and drop-trailerAward us a lane and we will staff it. That is the business we actually want.
- Short-notice Upstate workWe are seventeen miles from Inland Port Greer and twenty from Manheim Greer.
Saves us both a phone call.
- We do not double-broker. A load tendered to us is hauled by us or placed openly under our own brokerage authority with your knowledge.
- We do not accept loads we cannot cover. If the trucks are committed, the answer in the first sentence is no.
- We do not run hazmat, tanker or livestock. Not equipped, not permitted, not pretending.
- We do not quote a rate we intend to renegotiate at the dock. The rate confirmation is the rate.
Honest scope: we are 6 trucks. We will never be your surge capacity for fifty loads on a Friday. We can be the carrier you stop worrying about on a lane you place every week, and that is a better relationship for both of us.
Straight answers
Are you set up in RMIS?
Our registration status across the major carrier programmes is listed in plain language on the compliance page, including which ones are still pending. We would rather show you a pending line than claim a registration we do not hold.
Do you factor your invoices?
No. There is no factoring company, no assignment letter and no third party to route payment through, which removes one of the more common sources of payment confusion.
Can you provide tracking?
Yes — ELD tracking as standard, Trucker Tools or MacroPoint on request, and check calls at pickup, midpoint and delivery if your customer needs them. Ask at tender rather than after dispatch.
What is your claims process?
Report within twenty-four hours, acknowledged within forty-eight, handled under Carmack liability with the eBOL photographs from both ends as the record. The full process is written out on the compliance page.
Where to go next
Compliance
Authority, insurance limits, safety, ELD tracking, driver qualification and a written claims process. COI and carrier packet on request.
Read onCarrier packet
What is in our carrier packet and how to get it, plus a certificate of insurance naming you as certificate holder.
Read onDedicated lanes
Put Prime Trans on a lane: committed trucks, backup capacity, a 12-month rate with a fuel-surcharge table, and quarterly reviews.
Read onBrokerage & capacity
How Prime Trans places freight it cannot haul on its own trucks: vetted partner carriers under our brokerage authority, disclosed in writing, with the carrier's name and insurance shown to you before the load moves.
Read onA unit on the lot costs you every day it sits there.
Tell us the origin, destination, units per week and first pickup date. A written quote comes back the same business day.