truck driving for prime

Since I can't see your paystubs, I can only speculate. Personally, I never had a problem while in training. The $600 is before taxes, and the usual reason newbs are griping about checks is because they forget about advances and all the money they spend in truckstops.

 

Couldn't say... I suspect it is a temporary coincidence.

It's different for the transportation industry than it is for everyone else in terms of how its calculated. The basic IRS deal is $59 per day, of which you can claim 80%. There are different ways of figuring how many days you can claim it for (1/2 days, full days) but basically if you were away from your tax home for a full 10-hour rest break, you can claim it.

Most companies take their entire driver pool as a base for figuring the cent-per-mile figure they pay to drivers as per diem. Average the days out, average number of miles driven, etc, and use that to compute the number - not to exceed the maximum IRS allowance. Currently Prime will pay 7 cpm of YOUR total rate as per diem. That's NOT in addition to your given rate. For example, if you're paid 34 cpm and you elect to have the company pay you per diem, that would be 27 cpm as income and 7 cpm as per diem.

The per diem amount is not taxable, so you get a bit of your income shielded from withholding, but there are other ramifications that you may or may not consider to be significant.

Per diem constraint? If you mean by that a penny or two per mile that some companys skim off of the top, usually for "administrative costs" - no Prime doesn't do that. You get the entire amount in your settlements.

It will be well as soon as the Salt Lake City terminal lets loose of my trailer so I can get on with things! And, you're completely welcome!!

 

Treydumb has me on ignore...

He got his CDL elsewhere with no experiance... so he is classified as a "c" seat. $500 or .10/mile for the first 3 to 4 weeks.

D seats (students) skip c to b when they get their CDL plus the 10k training mile credit.

Number of factors would prevent him getting a full check. When did he get on the first truck? 7 days of dispatch only count from 1600 Tues to 1559 the following Tues... anything else is a partial week and only miles for trips completed are paid with no gauranteed min.

Circumstances of him getting off each trainers truck can kill the gaurantee. His story has changed so many times...

Question number one is did he complete a full payweek on either truck... and a pay week as I defined above.

Depending on a trainee's state of residence, state tax witholding along with fed, soc sec etc will be deducted from the gaurentee. I'm not sure how L/O trainers work, but as a company driver trainer, the trainee shares in the fuel bonus of a quarter share to the truck.

So a b seat garauntee week is $600 minus taxes plus quarter fuel bonus per mile.

C seat being $500 etc.

I can only hope Prime is witholding everything from him to re coupe the waste of time. Hotel food bus ticket etc... however I don't think this is the case. If he bothers to get it explained, you can't trust him to tell the truth here.

Remember first he said he fired the trainer, then he said he quit his trainer and left the truck in VA, then he said his trainer decided to quit being a trainer, and the latest one is his trainer attacked him while he was driving.

 

...Thats the first time since I've been a member that I actually laughed out loud....should see the looks I'm getting

 

Attack the post.....not the poster !!!!

 

I didn't attack anything, I just laughed.

 

As far as I know last week they thought they were going to have more instructors than available students. However, they are expecting a big class right after Labor Day.

 

yeah..Recruiter is pushing to get down there

 

Husband just finshed the 1 week orientation and then was told he had to wait 2 weeks for a trainer. His recuitor told him he would have one today.

 

why does he have to wait?