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Lease side for training is what you make in gross revenue, minus expenses, minus trainees pay. What's left over is your settlement. I believe there are some incentive payments for the longevity of your trainees, but I haven't ever looked into it.

I'm not sure what the deal is with CDL instructors, but there is some extra money in there for those guys.

 

I thought you already went through orientation

 

Once you've been on the road a couple of years, you'll notice that the crappy state of the roads in this country does a really good job of boppin' your thinker up there in the ol' brain cage. After a enough of a bashin' it's sometimes difficult to remember where you were yesterday, let alone anything about that orientin' atation you were talkin' about!

 

Yeah . Ikr. It's like you go to truckstops and kinds remember them and you see a certain person who works there you're all like " oh yeah, I remember this place"

 

Umm... where 'm I at again???

 

Does prime require you to get a passport an hazzmat in order to work for them. I ask my recruiter she said no but i rather hear it from a company driver, thanks in advance for the info.

 

Ok. So hubby and I have been driving as company team drivers for about 6 months with another big company. We aren't sure if we really want to change but are looking at all of our earning options. We have a friend that is leasing with Prime (refer & dry van) and so far he really likes it. I'm pretty cautious and like to do my homework prior to making any big changes. So here I am. Of course the Prime website touts teams make nearly $6k per week on average. We are hard workers and really enjoy running big miles. No problem with our work ethic here. I'm having a hard time figuring out what our net will be after paying for the truck, fuel, insurance?, maintenance, permits, tags,etc. The Prime website neglects to post what expenses, if any, they help out with, or what we will be responsible for. I KNOW, I KNOW!!! First answer will probably be 'it depends'! But any info is appreciated. Thanks!!

 

It's not officially required, but you'll probably get sent down to the post office to do your passport. Hazmat is up to you, since you have to take the test in the state your license is issued in. It's probably a good idea to get both, since it opens up loads that will get you out of areas of not much freight while the rest of the guys who don't have them spin their wheels and biotch about no freight.

Stop right there! These are not company driver jobs!! Leasing a truck means you are starting a business, and you have to treat it that way to be successful. When they say "teams make $6,000 per week," that means you may get a settlement (on the average) of $6,000 in gross revenue... that is NOT you make. Gross revenue is what is paid to you before expenses, like truck payment, plates, fuel tax, tolls, maintenance, fuel, etc, etc. What you make is what you pay yourself out of that- and that is one of your business expenses as well. Your settlement check is cash flow into the business... not a paycheck on steroids.

That's a problem! We don't get paid on a per-mile basis. In fact, you want to run as few miles as possible here. Lease ops get paid a percentage of the linehaul rate, fuel surcharge and accessorial payments. A chunk of money to run each load. The more miles you run, the higher your costs... and that means what's left over is less. It also means that your present strategy for driving isn't going to get you "big bucks."

And ya know what? I don't blame them a bit. How can you say exactly what expenses are when they are completely dependent on how you operate your truck?

Let's take tolls for example. Someone who runs the southwest exclusively isn't going to have much in the way of tolls. I run the northeast a lot, and it averages to around 3-cpm for me. It could easily be twice that for some yutz who doesn't understand that taking the Indiana/Ohio toll road on a regular basis to get from Chicago to the east coast is going to soak them... instead of something like US30/US6, etc.

Also your net is going to depend on a pile of stuff like whether you took hometime this week, whether one of your trips couldn't be scanned until after cutoff. You can go from thousands to minus thousands over the course of a week or two. Hint... you need to have as much in the bank as possible to fund your new business, and keep you out of the ramyen noodle aisle at Walmart.

Try reading this, and post back if your still interested...

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/prime/182163-leasing-at-prime.html

 

When I was teaming, $6,000 would have been an unacceptable gross without extenuating circumstances. $8-11000 was the normal gross.

$6000 sounds very high as an average take home. My best settlement was a little above $5000, when you add in the pay my co-driver got, that would take it to a little above $6000 between the two of us.

 

Does Prime have routes on the East Coast