PAM transport student

If you got 6000 dollars, pay them and haul boogie. I am guessing that you dont have 6000 dollars. Its nothing wrong with that. You have made it 5 months. That's plenty of time to turn things around. You need to talk with your driver manager about getting more miles. Say, "Hey, I wanna run. I am willing to stay out a while. Whatever it takes I am willing to do." Also lets think about this logically. How sensible to take hometime over the money owed for a motel? Once your truck gets fixed you can get rolling but sitting at home for $138, I dont understand that.

 

I suspect there is something else going on. PAM should have no trouble getting a load in the Charlotte area.

 

That sucks.

 

The Carolinas should have a thousand loads. Greenville comes to mind, they build fighters there among other things.

You aint making enough to live on at .35 there is nothing student about being solo.

Pay the 6000 and break the contract and forget anything else from PAM. You have your CDL. .35 a mile was 40 years ago.

 

Met two ex-Pam drivers at the drug test clinic about a month ago. They were testing for a local carrier in my hometown. The recruiter outside waiting on them told me enough of their situation to convince me that my decision to goto a private school was a good one.

Hope everything works out for you OP.

FYI- From what I’ve read on another trucker forum regarding their tuition repayment setup if you leave, Drivers Solution should be able to setup an payment plan for you. Might be worth looking into to get outta there.

 

You're probably in the same boat I was in when I started about four years ago. I went through the Stevens Training Academy as I didn't have the money to head to my local training school and couldn't get student loans. No one bothered to tell me about the vocational assistance from my workforce either. Cut to April of 2015 and I was terminated for wrecking. Of course they didn't set up a payment arrangement but instead sent it off to collections where they upped it from $6,000 to well over $8000. I still owe to this day as I deal with the original creditors when it comes to paying the money I owe. Well enough of my personal life story. I'll go down yours.

They'll tell you that you'll get .35 cpm and all of that jazz. Did they tell you how much of your pay they would deduct for the schooling during your employment among other taxes? Did you use a cash advance (Another way they get you)? Trust me I'm not taking up for them. I just know many of the tricks and sneaky #### they do to the new guys. As far as the short loads, they do that to test you but if they're actually doing that after 3 months, that leaves me scratching the ol' noggin. I got my first huge load at Stevens two weeks solo which was Nebraska to New York (No fun).

Being on breakdown sucks. Those dealerships aren't really trying. They'll sometimes tell the company a bunch of crap just to sap them of more and more money and keep the truck longer. Does PAM do breakdown pay? If so, after how many days? You paid for a hotel room out of pocket and they refused to reimburse you? That's not unheard of either. Did you fax them in a receipt? You have no need of a trip sheet if you know the company code when you transflo. I would've emailed it to my DM who could also forward it to the proper department.

Seven plus days without a load? Now I would be #####ing them all the hell out. I wouldn't have gave a #### if I had to deadhead somewhere (especially if they pay empty miles) and they wouldn't hear the last of it until I had something across that Qualcomm.

Lastly, about your plan. I wouldn't exactly do that. I would see what other company would take you with what you have. Then you return the truck, clean of course, and make sure you take pictures. Then make sure you have a way to your new orientation if your new company takes you . Then keep an eye on your DAC report. As my mother would say: "Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

 

Heck that truck isnt even broke in yet with 330k miles.

I would tough it out for 7 more months. Get a years experience under your belt and bounce to another company. $6,000 is a lot of money to fork over to them for not fulfilling your end of the contract.

 

You said it. My first truck at my company had 250,000 miles on it with my newest with 249 miles.