Looking At PAM and USA via Driver Solutions

If your new try TMC they are a great starter company, some of the best trainers

 

Don't drive for SWIFT... it stands for "Sure Wished I Finished Training"
"Swing Wide It's a Freaking Trailer"
"Slow Wagon In Fast Traffic"

 

ROFL... Yeah plenty of negative here. Penny-A-Mile Trucking and the Underpaid Suckers Association are two places I'd avoid like AIDS. They are cheap basturds that charge $6000 (totally unreasonable for a CDL) with interest for second rate training via Driver Delusions...

Its a congame so run far and fast unless you really like abuse, don't mind indentured servitude, enjoy spending quality time watching standoffs at the Mexican border and can spend a year of your life away from home surviving on a paycheck roughly equivalent to half of what a Wal-mart employee makes... then go for it... You'll never look at a smiley smock the same way again. I totally wish I was exaggerating.

 

I wish you were exaggerrating too but you aren't Po Asset Management run just enough to keep you broke and then try to keep you from getting a better job with a company that's gonna treat you right. make you jump through some BS hoops don't pay their bills and then wanna blame you the driver for it PAM can kiss my lily white asperations.

 

Driver Solutions is expensive, yes, but if you can't find another "free" tuition is ok, look at it as a career investment. They do their job you get your cdl, and move on.

PAM sucks a friend of mine was with them and was getting 2000 miles at 25c a mile, so not enough.

USA is better of you work you will get the miles, average around 2750-3000 a week.

I went to C1 and then USA, was doing 3000 miles a week. At 30 or 60 days can't recall, you get .29 a mile, at 6 months, .32c a mile, is not bad but it ain't the best pay. Watch your paycheck and write down all miles, detentions, scales, etc. They will try to not pay some of those, but will fix it as soon as you point it out. If you are a good driver they will try to keep you and give you miles. PAM won't.

In the end at 3-9 months, you will probably leave USA Trucking for a better job, and you will have to pay for the school, so as I said if you go that way, think of it as an investment.

I strongly recommend you not to go to c1 if you end up with PAM, go ISA or don't go.