Prime Logistics Newsletter | Q2 2024

Read this article for a recap of everything that happened between April and June in Prime!

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Meet the Team - Public Relations Team

We’re back with another edition of Meet the Team! In this section, we’ll dive into another 1 of our teams in the VTC, providing further insights into our operations and the various members of our Staff Team!

This quarter, we’re diving into the Public Relations Team! A lot of people don’t know exactly what our role is within the VTC, so we thought we would give some insight into our operations, other than Newsletters! We interviewed Codeize from the Public Relations Team and you can find his responses below.

To start, could you introduce yourself?

“Hey, I'm Codeize, or Code, and I've been in the Prime Logistics Staff Team for a little bit over a year now, and I've been a Driver since 2021. I'm a member of the Public Relations team (if you see a post on our socials with a really bad joke, that was probably me!), Human Resources team and, as of late, the Development team. Outside of my online life I'm a full time student, and I'm about to begin studying Computer Science! Soon enough, I'll be able to continue to add bugs to the Prime Logistics Bot and DriversHub, but now with a degree!”

A lot of people don’t know what we get up to in the Public Relations Team. Could you break down what we do for the VTC?

“At its core, the Public Relations team handles the marketing and promotion of Prime Logistics to the wider public. We make multiple posts a week across X (Formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and the TruckersMP VTC page ranging from trivia questions related to the VTC, all the way to sharing some of the best photographs our drivers and staff have captured recently.”

What would you say is the best part of being in the Public Relations Team?

“The best bit about being a member of the Public Relations Team is that I can do my work whenever best suits me. I can schedule posts on a Monday night that may be released on a Friday! Having that degree of freedom and management over my own work is a trait I love most about the Public Relations Team. Another bit I love about the Public Relations team is our beloved Director Joshua, who is practically part of the furniture here at the VTC, but is always willing to lend a hand with any aspect of my Public Relations duties.”

Drivers love having their photos on our Social Pages. Could you give some tips for drivers photography to help improve their chances of being showcased on them?

“A lot of people tend to overcomplicate taking photos to post in #drivers-media, but in reality provided it's at a good resolution, any menus/names are hidden, and it generally looks nice, is all it takes. We love being able to show off the beautiful pictures our drivers take to our near-5-thousand followers across all platforms.”

Finally, could you give some tips to drivers looking to join the Verified Streamer Programme to help improve their chances of being accepted?

“We've recently revamped the entire Verified Streamer Programme to better reflect what's been suggested to us by drivers, namely YouTube support! A lot of really talented streamers get their application to join declined as they don't have VODs (Videos on Demand) available on their Twitch or their YouTube channel, so if you're thinking of applying (which you should be if you're even a casual streamer!), all I can suggest is just to ensure some content remains available for a few weeks before you submit your application to join the Verified Streamer Programme.”

We hope you enjoyed reading these insights into the operations of the Public Relations Team!

Picture of the Month

April

April’s competition did not have a theme. Bogdan25 won with this photo of 3 drivers in an industrial area in Calais!

May

May’s competition was themed around urban areas, and 23ovii won with this photo of a Prime truck going over a bridge!

June

June’s competition was themed around American Truck Simulator, and Aligatoor won with this photo of a Kenworth on a drag strip!

Department Updates

With an extensive staff team, Prime’s operations run smoothly. We’ll give you further updates from some of our departments below!

Management

Has it been 3 months already? It has? Well, we have so much to discuss.

During the month of April, we, Management, created our own union. Unfortunately, it got shut down as of April 2nd. We would rather see drivers resolve issues with us directly and felt that the union had no impact on our usual way of suggestions. While it was sad that the union got disbanded, we started doing monthly meetings to discuss all kinds of things, such as issues within the VTC or Staff Team, suggestions and discuss any other important information.

Since May, Trello made a limitation on how many people can be on a board and therefore, made us have to migrate to GitHub. It has positively impacted the team as we can now effectively work and keep track of our suggestions and tasks. While we’ve been keeping busy with a lot of work behind the scenes, we’ve been more focused on dealing with a brand new change that will be announced soon with the Human Resources Team and Recruitment Team. This project has been thought of, discussed properly, and has been executed slowly throughout the past year. We are very excited and can’t wait to fully announce it when finalised.

Moving past those issues, we celebrated pride in June. We had a fun time supporting and appreciating our LGBTQ+ friends and can’t wait for next year to celebrate it and you can read more about this here. While we’ve had a lot of team changes during this quarter, we were very saddened to see that we had to off-board Directors who have been here for years. While we had to deal with that, we also had to deal with replacing them with someone else to support the team and help out. Management always despises dealing with the change of Directors due to the number of years they always stay in their role and the dedication that has been put in. Last but not least, Management has agreed with the Media Team to display our asset team mods on Steam Workshop. This will be worked on for the next few months while we figure out how to do it and add in all of our mods made by the team.

Throughout Q2, Management has excelled at getting things done behind the scenes by answering feedback tickets, discord tickets, working on suggestions, making improvements to the VTC and so much more. We are pretty excited to discuss more about our projects once they are finalised in the next quarter!

Driver Updates

In Q2 2024, our driver count increased back up to near identical levels we saw in Q4 2023 of 873 drivers. This is a 5.18% increase compared to Q1 2024, or a 0.34% decrease compared to Q4 2023. This is in line with expectations, because in Q1 2024, our requirements were back in force after the Christmas Break, meaning a lot of drivers were unfortunately removed for not meeting requirements, showing our VTC is continuing to maintain a steady driver count.

On the Recruitment side, we received 347 applications, of which 201 were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 57.93%. This is a 8.44% decrease in received applications compared to last quarter. The number of applications received this quarter is in line with the average number of applications we received each quarter in 2023 (360 applications on average).

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