Miles per week and typical starting pay for driving school graduates?

As far as apprenticeship goes, once the paperwork gets ironed out on both sides, the payment is normally mid month from the VA. It takes a couple of months to start receiving a payment but you will get back pay for it.

 

Both. I received a Columbia glider and some of the other new drivers in my orientation class received Century Classes.

 

anybody go to team with the pick a partner program and what they started at?

 

Not a direct answer but I have met many team drivers. Schneider does teams very well, teams are like the golden boys of the company. Probably on average they are the highest paid, get good easy runs and nice trucks. I have had a few students do team on the bulk side, they all made good money. But, I cannot figure out how they sleep on some of these roads.

 

appreciate the info, Im brainstorming ideas for going to trucking, after looking over their, schneiderjobs, web site on almost every page, I know that team can't last long for me but, even 27-35 cents for 5k+ mile/week is doable with almost anyone, for six months vs 2.5k miles per week at 27 cents, is what I think would happen with some of the beginning drivers at a couple different other roles. Though a starting OTR habits would be better prep for the choice lease program.
I'm getting great info on this forum, I just don't see the team input from the company drivers yet.
I cant help but notice that every state needs company team drivers, with bonus.








The difference between the Army and the Air Force is that the Army is equal opportunity to go to the field.

 

Schneider gave me a teammate to drive with which I didn't know anything about except his phone #. I started at .32 and my teammate started at .34 since he had some experience from another company. We were planning to only do teams for half a year but with the good miles and a nice raise we decided to keep teaming. When we had our first DBL we would get mostly loads under 1,000 miles and there were times we were waiting for a new load when we dropped off the last one. Once we switched to a new DBL we started to get better loads and always had a pre-assignment waiting for us before we finished our last load. It's rare if we don't average 3,000 miles a week or more. After almost two years we are making .39 which ain't too bad. I say do teaming and see if you like it. You never know you might get lucky and get a good teammate.

 

are you saying 3000 miles each 6000 for the truck?
or are you getting .39 for just half of the 3000 miles?

 

We drive 6,000+ for the truck a week and we both are at .39cpm.

 

not bad, other companies, I'm pretty sure was CRST, had detailed listing of rates and their starting was 22 cpm. I have been on a scavenger hunt for better rates than Schneider, and its either top secret or its you need 3 months or a 1 year of experience first. I thought deploying with the military was bad until I started checking out the trucking industry for their best paying jobs for people with family. Intermodal or part time is Schneider's reply for people with family in my book so far. Maybe percentage lease as well, but then that appears as work hard for top pay or not so much and go under? I would like to believe that a percentage could translate into 3/4 days per week of hustling all day, and go home for the remainder, and that seems possible in theory.