Are SWift mentor's making this kind of money?

im guessing the company drivers that are mentors are not making as much as a L/O mentor but the pay should be in that 2000 a week range with a good student and 1300-1500 with one that can't / won't run as hard

 

I have been sitting in Lancaster, and talking to a guy who was a mentor. Sure proud to wear that blue shirt...has been wearing it everyday since he's been here (his words). Rather than getting recognition he's a mentor, i'd want to be out running miles. (duh?)..

but anyway...some company or lease drivers who run 2500-3000 mi a week automaticly assume that if they go mentor and get a student, their miles double overnight. they do not. Just because you see 3k as a solo, dont mean you're going to see 6k with a student. First off, its going to take a 7-10 days before you even consider feeling comfortable with a newb. to go back to the sleeper for 10-15 minutes. and it wont be till the last few days (maybe a week) that the truck actually runs like a 'team' truck. and even THEN, you wont see 6k miles.

Now for the drivers/mentors saying they see $5k a week.....yeah.....they might. But what they wont tell ya, is that is what the truck brings in. What the truck makes and what the lease/op takes home are two totally different figures.

say you DO run 6k miles...lets just assume that 600 are MT.....so 5400 mi are loaded at $1.30 (with FSC) and 600 at .83 cpm thats $7518.

take $900 off the top for insurance, truck payment, and all your overhead (fuel comes later) and the truck has made just over $6600. NOW....lets just assume the truck does 6.5mpg on average for said 6k miles....thats 923 galllons at $3.50 = thats $3230 off your $6600...leaving the Lease Op/Mentor $3370. and at least $600 should be set aside into a maintence account leaving $2770 left....and take the 770 off for taxes. $2k is the best a mentor will make on the truck...WITH a student...and that is IF they run 6k miles. But again, they arent going to see the truck planned like a team truck till the last week of the learning process. best guess? plan on an average of 4k miles...and then the mentor/Lease op will only see $1000-1400 take home.

 

don't forget the L/O loose 5 cents per mile when they put a student on the truck

 

yes...totally spaced that off....thx..

think my next student, i'll have him sign a contract saying that he owes me his paycheck every tuesday while on the truck. =)

 

Mentors get 1 cent per mile for 6 months for all the miles you run when you are solo. It used to be 1 year.

 

it is good to see they brought that back they took it away for awhile

 

If it was that much money everyone would be training. I would! The safety man in Memphis said he trained for 17 years. His last year 110K.

Bet he wasn't running legal, and was making 50 cents or more a mile.

 

but that is AFTER the student has stayed with swift for 3 or 6 months. and its only a MAX of $150 a month. so you can train 100 students, you're only going to get $150 max for that penny/mile bonus pay

 

10 cents a mile per student. So 1 student graduating and driving 10,000 miles equates to $100 to the mentor's pocket. If you had 10 students that would be $1000 a month to the mentor. There is no cap. It behooves the mentor to maintain a healthy, friendly learning environment for the students because it translates to bigger bucks for the mentor. In other words if the mentor 'mails it in' and the student wrecks out there that's no money for the mentor.