Prime Logistics Newsletter | Q3 2024

Read this article for a recap of everything that happened between July and September in Prime!

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Meet the Team - Event 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 Event Team! Our anniversary is just around the corner and we thought it would be interesting to get someone from our Event Team that can provide some insights into both our anniversary celebrations and the general running of the team! We interviewed Enphyte, the Director Of Events; their responses are below.

To start, could you introduce yourself?

Heya :) I'm Enphyte, I am a Director of Events for Prime and also part of the Assets division in Media! I have been part of Prime for nearly three years and have been part of the staff team for two and a half years - A Director since April! I perform a lot of behind the scenes and more public-facing tasks as part of my role.

What kind of responsibilities, tasks, etc do you do in the Event Team?

The role of Event Team is a highly demanding role, there's a lot of tasks and responsibilities we hold. Some of our tasks include creating event posts, handling the many invites we get every day, creating our profiles for Convoy Control at events, creating routes for events, hosting private convoys, handling spawn logs, and many other smaller tasks. As a Director, there's a lot more tasks that Andreas and I do as well. We respond to the many tickets we get everyday, we also do the core planning for each of our events, particularly our Anniversary & New Years convoys!

Let’s talk about the anniversary - can you give us an insight of how the operations go while you plan and get prepared?

As of now we are gearing ourselves for the 6th Year Anniversary convoy and enlisting the help of staff in Prime and the TMP community for Convoy Control, GM Support and Media. There's been a lot of work behind the scenes put into the anniversary convoy as it is the most important convoy of the year, so that's why things have been rather quiet since August!

What’s challenging when doing your responsibilities?

There's two things that are a nightmare to deal with. One, ensuring that convoys are logged: since we can't be at every convoy, we rely on those who send us their spawn-logs to log events! Otherwise, no one would get points. Secondly, our invitations: As Prime is one of the biggest VTCs around, we receive a lot of invites from VTCs big and small and it has recently become difficult to get through. As of now, we have ~80 invites pending, and it takes a lot of time to get through some invites.

Finally, could you tell us what you enjoy doing while being a Director for the Event Team?

One of the main things I enjoy about being a Director for the Event Team (& also Convoy Control) is reforming and modernising many of our systems and methods to make sure the team is stable and also ensures that work flows effectively. Many of these changes won't be noticeable to our drivers, but trust me, a lot has changed recently and a lot will change! Many will know that we now operate a bi-weekly schedule instead of weekly, this was to allow for the Event Team & us as Directors to focus on tasks such as invites, and also to lessen overall workload on the team. There's many more changes that Andreas and I are currently in the process of implementing and wish to implement, some more publicly noticeable than others. Our main goal as Event Directors is to ensure that the Event Team can be stable and ready for 2025, as we've had quite a rocky year.

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

Staff Of The Month

During Q3, we decided to bring back Staff Of The Month to appreciate our Staff Team for all the hard work they do. We started this back in August by choosing Cal as our first staff member to receive this award. The only thing different is that we include our Directors to make the decision. The way this works is that at least 5 days before the month ends, Management asks Directors to choose and nominate the Staff Member who has stood out throughout that month. Then, Management will decide between the nominated Staff Members and choose someone who we feel has stood out! However, in the following month, that Staff Member can’t be nominated to make it fair for everyone in the team. Since we’ve explained everything, we can now tell you who won in August and September!

August

Cal joined the VTC on May 17th, 2022. A year later, he joined the Human Resources Team! Cal has done so much for the HR team by being a reliable staff member, taking on anything he’s given. He’s always there and helpful towards drivers, staff members or the community. His attitude towards everyone has given people a chance to be more open around him and to feel more at home rather than feeling they are trapped in a corner. Cal has dedicated full-time hours to our VTC and shown that he’s done so much for Prime Logistics and to that, we appreciate and value everything he’s done for us so far!

September

Enphyte joined the VTC on November 26, 2022; that's almost 2 years ago. They've done so much within the years they've been here. I want to start by appreciating their dedication to what they've been creating for our single-player division. Their skills are unmatched! They will forever be a legend for creating lots of asset projects that they've picked up by our ex-Director Scott. Because of them, we are finally going to have a huge project releasing on our anniversary in October!

While they aren't just in the Media Team and working hard; they are also in the Event Team as Director Of Events. Since they joined, they have done a lot to improve the workflow of each Event Team Member there. They've created lots of systems to help out with everything and have done nothing but give suggestions that have better the team's atmosphere. They've also done a great job introducing private convoys in SCS convoy mode so our SP division can attend without being a public member of TruckersMP.

Picture of the Month

July

July’s competition was themed around Summer, and Joni won with this photo of a Prime truck in a sunny, rocky area!

August

August’s competition did not have a theme, and Parker won with a photo of 8 Prime trucks about to head out on a drive!

September

September’s competition was themed around Halloween, and OLDSCHOOL won with a spoOoOky photo!

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-Prime Logistics Public Relations Team