Help, I Don't think I Understand Prime Training Pay

$600 guarantee, 12cpm if you go over 5k miles traveled. Show me where other TRAINING companies pay this much. Prime is what Prime is. And once you get your 30k (PSD) or 40K(C-seat) then you go solo, and get 33 - 36 cpm (depending on division) and at 80k (training miles count) get an additional 1cpm. Then add your fuel bonus, figured at cpm. Got a lightweight truck? 5cpm bonus.

So, basically, if you drive a midroof, you get 38cpm right out of training. You have 30k - 40k miles under your belt. Hopefully you have a good trainer. If you don't like your trainer, call your FM.

 

Hell of a lot stronger than Swift!

 

I have no problem at all sharing the road with rookies. My problem is these poor guys working for slave wages.

And your right, my first job paid 7.5 cpm

 

give these carriers enough time....the rookies will be making 7.5cpm if the carriers had their way!

 

Maybe I misunderstood the post, but to clarify that the trainers arent making .12/mile.

its not a .24/mile split.

For a solo A seat driver he has his pay rate solo, that pay rate has a matching team rate.

The trainer gets that team rate, minus the .12/mile to the trainee.

Trainer also gets the team mile bonus of .10/mile for each mile over 3500. However, the team mile bonus is a bit "tricky" and a bit shady if you ask me the way they run it.

 

Almost sounds like you need a degree in accounting to make sure you are getting paid the correct amount!

Why do they always find a way to "cloud the waters"?

 

U2 said it all well, everyone has to keep in mind that you start somewhere. No one starts at .45 to .48 or whatever number you want to quote. We all started at the bottom and get to work up. Don't consider just your cents per mile as your only salary. keep everything in mind as part of your compensation. Including even the small items like what ever else the company pays for whether you are lease or company and other little perks like a decent FM. its all part of the deal. And of course the equipment you drive. I got a brand new Cascadia. Pretty good perk for a rookie.

 

They're pretty straight forward in everything but... the aforementioned team bonus. For some odd reason that, and the fuel mileage bonus, are calculated between Fridays while everything else is calculated between Tuesdays, our cutoff day for pay.

Fuel mileage bonus I can track. I have no idea what was going on with the team bonus. The waters were even muddier after payroll girl tried to explain it to me!

 

You said it more concise than the post I was composing... so I scrapped it. Good thing I checked before posting it.

Yeah Payroll isnt very good at explaining alot of things.


Last year they didnt note per-diem income on the W-2 as in previous years, but included 401k deductions. Payroll's dept response was, "we asked the payroll system to provide it on the W-2 and they didnt."

Its not the end of the world, but if I want to get a loan or show income with a W-2, I might have a more convincing argument for credit if I can show how much of my income falls in the non-taxable catagory.

I got back from vacation to find out I didnt qualify for that vacation week yet. It wasnt a problem with the company, I just dont get another one till my next one that I qualify for. Plus I have to wait until I qualify for the one I took to collect the vacation pay. Not a biggy.

However, it took her 15 min to explain why what happened had happened.

it is this simple.

Trainees, your training miles do not count towards vacation but do towards pay raises.

Trainers your training miles with a trainee only count half towards vacation but all miles count towards pay raises.

As a trainer, I did not know about the half milage deal when with a trainee so my calculations for a vacation were off.