Oklahoma School

The trucks and amenities:

International Prostars and Freightliner Cascadia. Some newest ones have apu and 1700 watt inverter installed. Bed just has standard mateess but you can put own in.

Food

Mix of both, mostly cook meals in a stove on the truck.

Work schedule:

When you run team they shorten the delivery time, for example I just left Ohio for texas with 2 days to get delivery done. You generally have to run the truck constantly to make your appointments. You are expected to keep the truck moving, except for layover, maintenance, or 70 resets. Sometimes we get a lot of beeathing room sometimes only a few hours. Now actual driving you will drive about 500 to 650 a day, your sleeper time is spent in a moving truck while partner drives. Also remember your pay is for ALL miles the truck runs wether you drive em or your partner. We generally run everyday and do our reset in Sunday to watch some football :). They start you out as otr so 4 to 6 weeks out then 4 to 6 days home depending on how long you were out.

OTR:

Over The Road

OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

The trucks and amenities:

International Prostars and Freightliner Cascadia. Some newest ones have apu and 1700 watt inverter installed. Bed just has standard mateess but you can put own in.

Food

Mix of both, mostly cook meals in a stove on the truck.

Work schedule:

When you run team they shorten the delivery time, for example I just left Ohio for texas with 2 days to get delivery done. You generally have to run the truck constantly to make your appointments. You are expected to keep the truck moving, except for layover, maintenance, or 70 resets. Sometimes we get a lot of beeathing room sometimes only a few hours. Now actual driving you will drive about 500 to 650 a day, your sleeper time is spent in a moving truck while partner drives. Also remember your pay is for ALL miles the truck runs wether you drive em or your partner. We generally run everyday and do our reset in Sunday to watch some football :). They start you out as otr so 4 to 6 weeks out then 4 to 6 days home depending on how long you were out.

Sounds like Pam is a ok company. I checked and they are hiring from Ok city & Tulsa. Is the LR school ok. I've heard some living areas are not very good. I'm sure that is with all schools. Buy your own room could get expensive. Do the trucks have cruse, manual, auto, sat radio? What kind of stove? I like to cook with iron skillet, crock pot, and bbq grill. I'm guessing that truck gets pretty small with two. Getting a compatible partner would be most important . Sounds like you got that. Did you hire for team,? Thanks you've been very helpful!

OTR:

Over The Road

OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

C1 in Little Rock will put you in their bunkhouse, i had to share a room with 5 other students lol. If it is full they will put you a hotel. Trucks have cruise, manual transmissiom and am/fm cd radio. It does have an audio connection for xm or plugging your phone up and usb port.

My stove is juat a cheap little roadpro stove, heat up canned food and small hormel dinners.

When you sign on you make an agreement to team at least 6 months then you can go solo. However i plan to team at least a year sobi can start at .32 per mile instead of only .25.

Also, if you after money and want to solo there are prob better options out there, the money in this company is teaming. I take hom between $750 to $1000 , pretty good for only 3 months experience. Now that pay is with me and my partner getting the extra 3 cents per mile for both holding a hazmat. And the bonus is for all miles whether you haul hazmat or not.

Oh that take home pay is per week

Oh that take home pay is per week

Thanks great info! Of course money is why we are willing to be out 3-6 weeks. I'm just afraid I would not be able to equal a partner. I'm also looking at swift, prime, Schneider, and USA. I'm 66 years young and looking into this as something to do other than a 9-5 and sitting in front of the Tv waiting to die. My objective is to make enough to buy a new car. To drive seventy hours in eight days sounds like a lot of night driving. I also know some of those roads are rough! If I could keep a partner happy I know that would be best. A year doing that would teach a lot and I think make learning easier than trial & error solo.

Np, if you any other questions about the PAM program just let me know. Good luck!