How often do you go home while in Training?

Actually, they wish their lease payment was $4000 per month. Closer to $1600 per WEEK!

 

Hard to do if you live in the extreme of the country. Most companies wont bother to get you home until after training is done.
Unless you have a trainer that lives near where you live.

 

Lolol, very true... so over $6000 month

 

That is my understanding. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. To be fair, I believe that includes Insurance, plates, maintenance fund, etc. Still a bigger chunk of cash than I would be willing to put out weekly! I think the L/O driver's are paid a percentage of the load. I think about 65-70% of Prime drivers fall into that category. So ........many
of them somehow make it work. I think they have a fleet approaching 10,000 trucks. Company Driver suits me just fine.

 

Here is my understanding, so it may not be 100%accurate. If you do not have a cdl yet you will get it Springfield, then go out for 2-3 weeks with your trainer. After that time you will return to Springfield then test out with the DMV for your cdl. After acquiring your CDL you will run with your trainer for roughly 7 more weeks to acquire 20,000 miles of driving. Some trainees do go home between their 2 OTR training periods, but it's preferred you log as much of that training time in a single go as you can.

 

I'm fairly sure during those between times you could get some hometime, depending in where home is, but that will drag out the time more as you may have to wait more than a week for a trainer. Also, if you have a trainer you get on well with do you want to risk the getting paired with an individual you don't?

 

Wilson and prime are 2 different companies. Wilson is in missoula montana and they are a very good company to start with. Just grit ur teeth and get theru training. It aint that long, we all had to do it.