Prime INC Lease/Owner trainers .. where you at?

Numbers all depend on the student. If they're willing to learn and work you'll do fine if they're not then you'll run into trouble. The first week or 2 usually starts out slow let the get accustom to driving tarping strapping ect. My dispatcher knows not to send me long loads during that period of time that's when I do most of the teaching abou securement. After that tho I like to run hard and usually my students do to. I give them a few extra hundred a week based off miles. Even though I'm already paying the 600 a week to them. For me it's a bad week if it's under 3k bring home with a student on my truck. Any more questions ask away

 

Yes flatbed. On my settlements they take out about 700 but the student gets 12 cents a mile

 

Sorry hit send to quick. The students get 600 or 12 cents a mile whichever is greater that's before taxes of course. They have to have 30k miles if they already did PSD which is get their permit and drive 10k miles then get the CDL if they come in from a school or no experience it's 40k miles. Those miles are all dispatched miles loaded and empty whether the student or trainer is driving. With home time it's ideal to find a student who lives near you but that usually doesn't happen. If were coming thru my house or theirs I'll stop for what time allows. But I'm focused on getting myself home more than a student. If you go home for longer than a few days prime likes you to put them up in a hotel. Now if there's a special occasion such as a kids bday or something I'll try and get them home for that. Utimalty my goal is to get them off my truck as quickly as possible when they're ready. That way they can start making their own money. Usually it's about 2 months on the truck. After I drop them off I'll go home for a week or two then come back out and run solo till they have another one ready. The student I have now will be the last one till 2015 due to the holidays he'll be off my truck a week before thanksgiving. You don't want to have a student during the houldays cuz you have to get them home and then get yourself home. It also can take a while to get back to pick them up depending on freight. it can be a real pain in the ### sometimes but the money obviously makes it worth it.
My average load is about 1.50 solo and around 1.75 team. Just got to know where the good areas are and the bad areas.

 

You info on student pay rate is slightly outdated. The student now gets $700 a week/ 14 cents a mile. That changed about 1.5 months ago or so. Your settlements would show you exactly when that happened. Just look for the jump from $600 to $700.

 

Hmm need to call payroll. I wasn't told about that and I haven't had a student get over 600 a week. Don't want them getting shorted. Preciate the info.

 

You can ask your FM to keep you in a certain area, but it does depend on what's available. Just because YOU think a certain area is "good" doesn't mean there isn't better freight in the system outside of your "good area."