Prime Pay

Quick answer. Yes. Long answer find U2Exit's Prime Pay Schedule thread.

 

Yes. and No.

For non-Prime school grads, trainees start at .10 or 500 for their first 4 weeks ON THE ROAD. Then they raise it to .12 or 600 for the rest of the training period.

Non-Prime grades do 10k more training miles than PSD students.

Just a note, all trainees (both types) have to be available for dispatch and on the trainers truck all 7 days of the pay period to recieve the 500/600 minimum.

Pay period is bewtween Tuesdays at 1600.

Here is where the complaints start initially:

There is no pay for orientation. No check, nothing, until you start turning miles. Trainees start complaining thinking there is a $500/$600 check that first Friday... even if they havent been assigned to a trainer.

Example: Trainee leaves out, maybe right away, maybe after trainer has some truck repair. Maybe truck gets a load doesnt make a delivery by Tues, or it does but only low miles. Paycheck posts on following Fri after the Tuesday cutoff and there is either no money, or very little... Remember there is taxes. (PSD grads have their $25 loan payback)

Key here is, you dont get the gaurantee if you and your trainer are not ready for dispatch on Tuesday. You just make the milage rate.

Once you hit the road, you're good for the garauntee week to week between Tuesdays.

Unless you go home for hometime... Straddle a Tuesday and thats 2 pay weeks with your hometime.... that is two garauntees you are not getting. Now if the truck turns over 5k miles one or both weeks while you are on it, its a moot point since you will make over the minimum for those miles.

You only get paid for the miles you run on the truck... if a load is 1k miles and your trainer drops you off at home 600 miles in. you are only getting 600 miles for that particular load. Same thing coming off home time. Trainer could be on a 3k mile load and pick you up with 100 miles to go before delivery. You are getting paid that last 100 miles.

 

Excellent summation, U2Exit. It's pretty easy to understand in the context of the trucking industry: No miles? No moolah. Mo' miles? Mo' moolah!

For me, the path is clear. First, PSD. Then, get on the trainer's truck as long as I am in training. Hometime? I'll worry about that after they point me to the parking lot with a list of 'available' trucks from which to choose my own. Until then, I'm in training. I am available, so train me!

 

As long as YOU are available for dispatch you still get your guarantee no matter what your trainer is doin. I've gotten it sitting in SPRINGMO while my trainer was on hometime.

 

Yes. Forgot to mention that. Also, If the trainer goes home, and you go with him, you still get the garauntee.

Now he may invite you into his home, he might not. You may stay on the truck. The trainer might get you a hotel. However, he does not have to. You can get a hotel yourself, you wont be re-imbursed, yet it still counts as being on the truck for the garauntee.

 

I will chain my bad self to the freaking steering wheel if the guy goes into his house!

 

Don't drop the key....

 

Not sure if this is normal but I recnetly went home. I told FM I needed a 34 at home but not a full 3 day. I was prepared to not get the gaurentee. Truck Did not move while I was at home trainer was sick and load delivered monday I was back on truck Sunday. I got the full pay but Like I said I only went home for 30 hours of a 34.

Well see what happens this weekend. Going to trainers hometime. I am staying at my sisters. I might get the milage. I'll take it as I need the time. But since this is his request for time not mine I am hoping I will geet the full. We'll see