Better training pay than Prime?

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  1. keen98

    keen98 Road Train Member

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    Ah ok forgot bout their lease operators.
     
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    Don't get me wrong you kill yourself while your doing it, because don't forget your training while your doing this. So sleep is a luxury at that point because if your a good trainer and actually care you getting up at deliveries helping the kid. Making sure he's doing the macros right on the Qualcomm. Help him back into the dock because the deductable is coming out of your pocket if he hits something. Plus you want him to become a good driver because your name and reputation is on the line. These kids left their families to do this. You want them to succeed. Yea you make those numbers but its no free ride, you earn every penny of it. By the end of the kids training I'm dead...You know what I mean??? Lol
     
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    Oh I know. Im lucky to get 4hrs each night when I have a student because I refuse to sleep when they drive. So we dont "team" per se, but the truck is usually never sitting longer than 5hrs. They sleep when I drive but not the other way around.
     
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    Copy that driver!!! You got one eye open one eye closed!!! Lol!!!
     
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    I averaged 900-1300 a week at Millis during training. Would highly recommend to any new driver
     
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    As a trainee that's good money...
     
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    Even though I made good money in training at Millis I will be first to say that training pay shouldn’t be anyone’s priority when choosing a company to start with.
     
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    Pgt is a good company to start with pay is 25 percent but they run the northeast i start off there making 1500 a weak after training and was home ever weekend and dispatch was good always had a load after dropping I was averaging 250-350 a day 5-6 load a week and got to see some cool old steel mill
     
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    A bunch of bs. You want the truth on lease operator at prime? Go watch Trucker Brown on YouTube.
    Can also read people on here. Very disappointed with their lease at prime. Put in a year and that’s all.
    The trainee is actually working team driving for three months. Earning half of what he would earn with Prime teaming. He’s instantly paying the company back.

    Another that pays better is Magnum. That company has a small school. Building up a larger school operation. They will train anyone with a cdl. Amount of training time based subjectively. It isn’t short for no experience. But not long to make you team paying back instantly.

    Let’s get the bs out. The truth in.
     
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    That's what the trainer makes. No one said the trainee made that. What are you dyslexic and interpret things backwards? Let's get the Dyslexia out and the Adderall in!!! The ones disappointed with their lease at Prime are the guys who ran their business like a bunch of mammalukes and were ###### rich with their money. Then wanted to go home with no money to cover their over head expenses so it put them in a hole. Not being fuel conscious, not watching variables period. No fault but their own then they want to cry and point the finger at the bad guy. You wanted the truth???? There it is!!!