Comments By Nathan N.

As Brian was saying, this could be a huge trend setter!! I can't wait to see my pay on Friday and see that.50cpm on there!

Congrats!!

Awesome job tractor man, that was quick!!

When your brakes are set and your airbags bleed off it can cause the truck to lurch as a trailer will push forward and when the brakes slip a little it will cause that.

This has scared the living crap out of me more than once.lol

Congrats, that's awesome news!

Let me get this straight 40 Ton, the reason I became an instructor was so I could take in all that extra dough? Are you serious?

Next week I am going to pick up my first student. So basically I am going to the terminal for almost an entire week and lose my entire revenue for that period. Not only that I still have to make my truck payment which is 855 a week. For a grand total of about 2500 dollars in lost wages. After I pick up my new student they are going to pay me 350.00 a week to train my student to get his CDL. Now because he is only driving on a permit I have to be in the passenger seat the entire time he is driving, so how many hours do you think I'll be driving if I have to train a student? 500 maybe 1000 if I'm lucky. So let's say I average 3500 that only covers the lost revenue I suffered the first week.

Now after my student does his required miles 10000 and not before 15 days I have to go back to the terminal and get my student tested out, but before we test we have to make sure the student is ready for the backing portion so another day or two down the drain. After that sign the student up to test and pray they trifecta the first time. 750 dollar bonus to the trainer of that happens. Guess what that almost covers the truck payment that week I'm not running -score!!!! If the student fails to get his hard copy guess who's the big loser in this hum mm.

So your student passes and now you get 6 to 8 weeks of your student being your TNT student. The pay for student is 750 dollars which comes out of my settlement so really it's me who is paying that student to be on my truck not the company! So what's in it for me, well after all the bills are paid I make the revenue off the truck for six to eight weeks if we average 5000 miles a week I will do okay. But far from a windfall!

Listen I'm sure there are trainers doing it for the wrong reasons out there. Understand though I am risking my life there life and my livelyhood training students. I think students like yourself under appreciate hard working trainers that want to help students be successful in this field.

Brian, I personally want to thank you for taking a HUGE risk in becoming a trainer, and thank you for what you do!!

C.S. maybe there was a miss understanding yes 36 cpm to the truck with teams but the team thousand with the trainer 18 cpm is the only thing I am trying to avoid. And the way it was explained to me was when I am with the trainer I only get paid for the miles I drive. I have met great people that have worked for celadon for years . Just looking for guidance and information and got a great comment from someone saying that their company pays 750 or more which ever is better . I am looking to try to avoid the trainer if at all possible because I still have bills coming in and I can email the paperwork and contract that every student signs if they (Celadon ) pays for their schooling

Ok I believe I see the misunderstanding here, celadon does pay .18 cpm for students going through training, which is on average 4-6 weeks. After your training, their pay is average and fair. So if you want to switch companies for that extra pay while training, you now have that right since you paid out of pocket

most trainers slow walk your ten thousand miles so what should take a 4 weeks at the most is taking up to six months

James, what kool.aid are you drinking? When did you see this? I believe trainers get paid those miles, too, so why would they want to take their time making less money?

If you're going to go with the attitude that the company and their trainers are out to rip you off somehow, you're in for a really lousy career.

You can read another current post here where a trainer lists what he has to put up with to get a student ready for solo. And he calculates he loses money on the deal.

Other companies have other training schedules. At Swift, I was with a trainer for 400 driving hours (5 weeks, paid by the hour, too!), tested out and went solo.

I agree 100% with mr. Errol, company trainers and most o/o trainers get paid cpm, so why would they take their time training you?

As for rookie teams, we split .42 cpm. And are making really good money. You should give celadon a try. Would be as good as any.

I drove solo for celadon for 1 week before picking up my teamate and running team. During that week I was paid 31cpm as a rookie. Fyi