Prime: Orientation and Training?

I'm actually pretty sure they advertise the lease as having "no credit check".

 

How much is training pay??? Do they provide a hotel at school???

 

While you're a PSD student (learning permit with and instructor) you're not an employee. When you're at the yard, you get a room at the Campus Inn (an older motel, but its clean and well maintained) and a meal card to use at the cafeteria at the motel or the grill at the yard in Springfield. The meal card gives you a per-meal allowance. If you go over that, you'll need some cash to cover the cost. While on the road with your instructor, they advance you $240 (I think it's that amount) to cover your expenses and meals. Its a loan - you pay back at $25 per week once you're hired.

After you get your CDL, you're hired on as a C-seat. You're payed $500 per week gross. At one month you get a boost to B-seat, and you're pay jumps to $600 per week (gross) or 12 cents-per-mile, whichever is more.

Keep in mind that you have to be available for dispatch after you're hired. If you're sitting somewhere (home time, waiting at the yard) you're not getting paid. The wheels have to be turning.

 

The loan during the PSD period id $200 a week, and if you go thru the PSD program at Prime you start at $600 a week guaranteed.

 

I usually figure I'm on somewhat thin ice when answering these sorts of questions... been awhile since I was a trainee, and I'm not totally up on the current status of things since I don't train.

Probably better for everyone... less dead bodies to dispose of!

 

The $500 deal is for Non-Prime CDL School grads with no experiance... they are bumped to the $600 deal after 4 weeks.

The garauntee is for all 7 days on the truck. You go home for hometime on any day for a particular pay week, you get paid .12/mile (.10/mile if under $500 deal)

Of course, if the truck is dispatched more than 5k miles you make .12/mile (or .10 if it applies to you) more than the garauntee that week.

 

I believe they actually pro-rate the guarantee if you aren't on the truck for 7 days. So pretty much $85.71 a day. Not 100% sure though.

 

Take a look at your trainee's settlement. That would be news to me. It wasnt so as of two months ago.

 

Its possible they changed that policy - I remember some "partial" paychecks for weeks when my trainer went on hometime - but that's ancient history now.

 

Week of Thanksgiving, he went home on Monday. We had 3622 miles, and he got B2 seat pay to bring from 434.64 (3622 x .12) to 514.26 which is 85.71 times 6. So he did get a pro rated guarantee. I'd have to go back and look, but I'm pretty sure I got a pro-rate guarantee when I was in training as well.