DS changed me over to PAM - have ???

They changed quite a few people over to Pam when I was there. I think they do team alot. Is that cowgirl still out there on the range? Remember, Idle only. She will come have a chat with you. Other than that, they are all good people. The range is small and crummy though.

 

I go monday to start school they had me with usa and changed to pam. You had to drive team for 6 months then can go solo.

 

Most likely you will not team unless they have another female in your area. Your trainer may or may not be a male, will get done faster if you don't mind one though.

(this is all assuming your name is steph and that you are a female. )

 

It may be a blessing in disguise !!!

Pam seems to have their stuff together,

at least better than USA.

Have Fun, Enjoy, and Good Luck !!

 

Ask for Rollin'. lol he's good


As for teaming...they'll set you up with a male trainer if you don't mind, but they will not partner you with a male team member. Training is temporary and will be over in 3 weeks-ish. Plus, there are not very many female trainers to go around. Same goes for female drivers, but after you are upgraded to first seat, all PAM is concerned about is getting you behind the wheel, so if there is no female in your area needing a female team driver, then you will be solo.

 

As for your other questions...

I no longer work for PAM, so any info I give is outdated, but what I can give is personal experience.

Good miles? Yes, it can happen. You have to realize that PAM is a training company with over 2000 trucks, not to mention other companies such as Swift, USA, Schneider, Werner...All these companies pay their drivers low cpm so they are able to undercut accounts to get the loads. Sure there are oodles and oodles of loads going out, plenty for everyone at every company...but you may not always be available or in the area of said oodles. Now, when I worked for PAM, it was rare for me to finish a week with less than 2000 as a solo driver. A lot of it is right place/right time. There are many areas where there are so many loads, you will barely have time to put your qualcom on the floor after sending in your empty when you get your next load. Other places, not so good. Plus, I always seemed to be getting calls asking if I had the hours to repower some load, or if I could do a dispatcher a favor and run this (low mileage) hot load for him/her. Anytime I was asked to do something, I never said no, unless I didn't have the hours to do it. This puts your truck number in their mind, and when they need something, they see where you (and other drivers who don't say no) are sitting as compared to their load.

Plus, I never went home. lol I know with a family you won't be able to do this. I would stay out for 2-3 months at a time, go home whenever I felt like it, stayed home for about 8-10 days, and got back out on the road.

Equipment? I know that PAM is in the process of replacing all of their old trucks. They started this right when I quit last year. You still may end up with an older pos, but if that is the case, you won't be in it for very long. All of the new trucks they are buying are manuals, from what I understand. Now, there is no telling if you get a newer truck that the driver before you didn't f^%k it up, but that's just the chance you take lol

Management....I can't really answer anything about this because I'm not sure who is still around. From what I have heard and read, things have changed a lot since I left last May...better getting answers about that from the guys still around.

 

Really? Don't tell too many people I do need time off sometimes.

Currently there are two female trainers.