Prime student

Well i think i need to be a co driver trainer. Then ill get people to sign a l/o, than since i dont have a lease they can give me a years worth of payments in cash... yea yea, i got this allll worked out

 

You ain't leasing, you ain't getting the extras, you lose.

But go ahead, go with that, let us know in oh, say about 3 months how that cash you were hoping for fizzles out.

 

Your sarcasim filter is cloged there driver.

 

Well without spending a ton of time getting into too many details and making a page long post, I'll trying to summarize it.

The PSD phase lasts for 75 driving hours and is about seasoning a student with his permit for the CDL exam. This pays at as flat rate of $300 per week for instruction, plus normal solo driver CPM pay for the miles the truck drives. This truck operates as a solo truck. Student drives and instructor sits in the passenger seat during the whole duration. There is a nice bonus when the student passes the CDL exam, and residual bonuses when the student hits milestones such as going solo, 3 months, 6 months, ect.

The TNT phase is about a student with a CDL running a certain amount of miles in a team dispatched truck. For an L/O doing this, they are making their normal percentage of line haul but the student makes a flat rate of $700 per week. This comes off of the top of the revenue to the truck for the week, and if the truck has run 5k-6k team miles, that relatively low flat rate has allowed the profit to grow substantially.

Many L/Os will only do TNT because their time is better spent doing this than PSD. Some may do PSD only so they can groom their TNT partner.

For a company driver, if you train PSD, you can try to get one done every 2-3 weeks and try to build up those residual bonuses.

 

Makes sense, just never paid much attention beyond the blurbs i get now and then from megas

 

The referred drivers incentives add up to more when it comes time for them to refer someone? The l/o is doing it for the benefit of the driver they referred?

 

That is not what G.Anthony meant. Please excuse his dangling participle.

 

I'll report that to Penske later tonight. Now I'll have to drive a spare truck, thanks a lot.

 

Haha! I dont care who you are, thats funny right there

 

I'm wondering why this went past the third page.