Prime NOOB

So you are saying that if you stay in a hotel for 5 days waiting on the trainer you will have to pay for the room yourself? that sucks, i thought that was paid by prime while you are in training. I went with a company when i was in training and the trainer went home and put me in a hotel until he got back from his hometime, and i did not have to pay a dime of that money back.That might work out well for you to stay at someone house, but not for me, even tho i be in the truck with the guy for all those weeks in that situation you really have no other option, but if he is going home i rather have a hotel room to be away to myself for the time he is home.

 

It is not a policy by Prime, but more an agreement between you and the instructor. If you are off the truck, no pay check. I personally think he should try to accomodate you the best he can. I don't think I would do that to a student.

 

If I am not mistaken, the Prime policy during TNT (the team driving part of training) is that in order to get the guaranteed $600/wk, you must be on the truck and available for dispatch. If you get off the truck (home time, hotel room while instructor does hometime, etc.) then you get $.12/mi. whatever the miles that week may be.

 

Like i said, THAT SUCKS Well i guess i will have to ask the trainer if he is going on vacation before i go with him or at least park the truck at a truck stop while he is on vacation. At least i will be near a bathroom and be able to take a shower and wash clothes...........oh yeah and eat too

 

It should not matter if you are on the truck or not. Only that you are available for dispatch. I got my guaranteed pay while trainer (U2) was on home-time for four days. He covered a hotel room for two of those. Also, after I passed CDL test, I was waiting for U2 who was out west. FM told me I could head home (my car was there) and trainer could pick me up in Northwest Indiana. Easier to route him through there than try and get him to SPRIMO. 5 days at the house paid because I was "available for dispatch." May be U2 and I just have a cool FM, but I've never seen or heard anything that says you have to be on the truck. Someone, methinks, is yanking your chain.

 

No, technicaly you stayed on truck. I paid for your room out of pocket with no reimbursement. You got your full pay.

If Prime paid, you would have been in a room each night, and no $600 paycheck.

Ideal situation is to drop trainee at home. Time crunch prevented in that situation

I try to only take my hometime when the trainee wants to take his. More often than not I just run solo during that time.

 

Right, what I'm saying is, it's about being available for dispatch, not if you are physically on the truck. I wasn't on anyone's truck before you picked me up at home, technically or otherwise.

If his trainer sprung for a hotel room, or he paid for one himself, he would still have gotten full guaranteed pay, right?

 

Good luck with that. JCW had to go the 40k, no matter what his trainer said to the FM. That's why he ended up w/ the 2nd trainer. The first one's lease was finishing out, and JCW still needed less than 5k to finish.