Pride Transport

Rugerfan · Oct 13, 2019

Do they use driver facing cameras?

Snowshoes · Oct 13, 2019

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Do they use driver facing cameras?
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No driver facing camera

RoadCall · Oct 13, 2019

@Snowshoes

They still on a sliding pay scale? Top pay for anything long is .43.5 cpm?

Snowshoes · Oct 13, 2019

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@Snowshoes

They still on a sliding pay scale? Top pay for anything long is .43.5 cpm?
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Yes on the sliding scale, but I'm not sure what the low end is. I only drive on the weekends so my runs are short

Flat Earth Trucker · Oct 15, 2019

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I want put some information out here about Pride Transport because the thread by Kryon on this subject was instrumental to me in choosing to work for this company, but his thread is quite outdated. My experience so far is:

When I completed school and agreed to sign with Pride they offered to fly me to their only terminal at Salt Lake City or get me a rental car and reimburse me for gas. I chose to drive my own car with gas reimbursement for personal reasons.

They do not do the background checks, employment verification, or drug tests before you arrive which is kind of a negative, but in my class of 10 there were no problems with any of that.

They put you up in an okay hotel about 10 minutes from the terminal. You get a room to yourself with free breakfast at the hotel. (They give you lunch all 3 days of the orientation. It was deli sandwiches the first 2 days and Dickey's BBQ the third day.) They have a shuttle pick you up the first morning of orientation then we drive the shuttle back to the hotel after that first day. We leave the keys at the front desk but we can borrow for anything we want to do until 930pm.

They have you get into town Monday, then orientation is Tuesday through Thursday from 8 AM to 4-4:30 PM with an hour break from 12PM to 1PM.

So the staff at Pride is exceptionally nice and driver friendly. They call it the Pride Way and it seems to be contagious. It's easy to be nice to people when everyone is being super friendly to you. As an example, a woman who team drives with her fiancee was upstairs in the driver's lounge playing her XBOX. I chatted with her. Later she told me that I could stay after when my orientation was over to play her XBOX then just take her personal car to the hotel as long as I brought it back in the morning. People are crazy friendly here.

The first day of orientation is drug screens, new physicals, new DOT medical cards paid for by Pride, and then road tests. The road tests are about 60 to 90 minutes long and done by everyone who doesn't need a trainer. In our class we had 7 drivers with OTR experience who did the road test. It's basically just showing drivers how they want their equipment handled. 1 driver with 26 years of experience has no OTR experience so he just has to do a quick 50 hour eval with a trainer then he will road test and go solo.

Myself and one other student were fresh out of school so we must do a 100 hour super solo with a mentor followed by 200 hours of team driving with a mentor before we road test and go solo. Pay for everyone is $360 for the three days of orientation. Pay for trainees like myself is $450 a week during the super solo then $.15 a mile for all miles driven during the team driver phase.

When a trainee such as myself goes solo then I start at $.41 with some bonuses. The bonuses are:
$5000 signing bonus if you are in their service area, paid $200 a month for 24 months (last is $400)
$6000 tuition bonus, paid $125 a month
Mileage bonus: which is .5 cents, 1 cent, or 1.5 cents per mile for the whole month at the end if you have driven a certain amount of miles. The 1.5 cents if for 13k plus I believe and drivers tend to land in the 12.5k to 13k range.
MPG bonus which is set based on the truck. $30 for meeting the benchmark and $30 for every .1 MPG you beat the benchmark by. Paid monthly.
Produce loads is $30 for every dock bumped and $100 layover if you can't make every pick within your HOS.
$15 for bumping the dock on a non-produce load for every dock except the first and last.
Detention is $15/hour starting after you waited 2 hours and calculated in 15 minute increments.
Layover is $50/day for a full 24 hour period. Same for breakdown pay.

Bad things in regard to pay are:
Trainees just out of school don't sign a contract but must agree that after the 300 hour mentorship they will stay with Pride for 6 months or pay a pro-rated $5000 depending on how much of the 6 months is remaining.
All drivers must pay for their own inverter from the company (can't use own) and the company will install it. These range from $400-$500 for the non CPAP inverters and are paid at $50 per week.
The $500 dog deposit is not refundable but you can transfer it to a different truck as long as your truck is reasonably clean.

Anyways the second and third days of orientation are typical. Security, HR, paperwork, tours, getting comdata/fuel cards, taking pictures, logging on to Transflo. They watch the videos in their orientation playlist on their YouTube channel. The 3rd day drivers who don't need a mentor meet their fleet managers and figure all of that out.

After orientation, so Friday now, all 7 experienced OTR drivers got seated in their trucks. They all got Freightliners though the company does have some Peterbilts. They ranged from 2016 (the oldest the company has - getting phased out) to 2019s. Autos and manuals. They won't put anyone in a manual who doesn't want one but they did ask for volunteers. The trucks are really beautiful and well maintained. They install DirectTV for free for you and they install the mount for free, but you must buy your TV and I believe you must buy the mount. Then they charge $60 a month for DirectTV. They have a scale for that which decreases the cost to you and if you are out there driving then that ends up being free.

The driver who needed the 50 hour eval and us 2 trainees all got a hold of our mentors on Thursday to come pick us up. The other 2 people's mentors will be here Monday and mine will be here on Saturday. All 10 of us got our hotel stay increased to Monday though.

Anyways, that's basically the orientation experience here. Everybody I talk to is getting a ton of miles, not having maintenance issues, and just very happy here. I'll write more about how the mentorship goes and how the solo driving later goes if anyone is interested.
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Other than the breakdown and layover pay being low, Pride sure sounds a lot better than that other quaint, little reefer outfit just down the road.

And not having new drivers share a room is outstanding. Thumbs up for Pride doing that.

The aforementioned other quaint little reefer outfit is all about cramming students into one room until the fire marshal complains.

RoadCall · Oct 15, 2019

Too bad their pay is as bad as the other little company, 43.5 a mile, for anything over 400 miles, wow!

CaptainJack88 · Oct 26, 2019

Just an update on what is going on. Been in training for 4 weeks now. A couple days ago my mentor's dispatcher offered him a new truck. So 2 days ago we traded in his 2019 Freightliner with a few miles shy of 200,000 miles on it for a 2020 Freightliner with 22 miles on it. After 4 weeks I'm at 223 hours of the 300 I need. We get plenty of miles. Here is the breakdown of my hours and miles so far...

Week 1: 55h 24m Driving 2817mi
Week2: 48h 02m Driving 2597mi
Week3: 59h 41m Driving 3221mi
Week4: 59h 57m Driving 3205mi

I haven't gotten any home time yet because I had decided to do the whole mentor program before I go home. My mentor already had home time scheduled for the end of the month so Pride is getting me a hotel room near family for that time. Then after I'm done with the training (about November 6th), I'm unsure whether I will get a load to the edge of their service area (and thus the 5k sign on bonus) or whether they will just fly me home for the 7 day home time.

Herbertscandrive · Oct 28, 2019

So if you take the home time you won't get the 5k? I'm heading up there on the 4th to start my training with them too. Thank you for keeping up your experience here!

WesternPlains · Oct 28, 2019

Thank you for posting. Have always had an interest in Pride. Good information.
Am wondering where Pride primarily runs?

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