Prime Paid Miles
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You get paid miles to get repairs and bobtail too.
I had to add 100 miles to a load to get my reefer fixed. Then one customer made me drop a trailer but no empties were there. I bobtailed 300 miles to pick up BRAND new shiny trailer. Then drove 330 miles empty to the shipper. Easy .money with great fuel bonus lol
Bobtail:
"Bobtailing" means you are driving a tractor without a trailer attached.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
Reefer:
A refrigerated trailer.
I bob tailed over 600 miles to a place to grab an empty a couple of weeks ago and was paid for every mile. Empty, full, bob tail...same pay.
I have a question to add to this. I am with a lease operator in TNT and he said his empty miles aren't paid since he is lease. Now I'm wondering do the empty miles count towards my 30,000 required miles or just the loaded miles??
TNT:
Trainer-N-Trainee
Prime Inc has their own CDL training program and it's divided into two phases - PSD and TNT.
The PSD (Prime Student Driver) phase is where you'll get your permit and then go on the road for 10,000 miles with a trainer. When you come back you'll get your CDL license and enter the TNT phase.
The TNT phase is the second phase of training where you'll go on the road with an experienced driver for 30,000 miles of team driving. You'll receive 14ยข per mile ($700 per week guaranteed) during this phase. Once you're finished with TNT training you will be assigned a truck to run solo.
All the miles on the truck count for you, empty or loaded.
And that is a lie that he doesn't get paid for empty miles. Lease ops get paid 72% of the load revenue. They do not get paid by the mile. They can take the load price and divide it by miles to get a per mile price. My first trainer said his FM paid him $1 per empty mile and flipped out one day when a load worked out to 88 cents per mile. He yelled that he gets paid more empty so he'd sit all day for a better load.
Intermodal is different and lease ops get paid $1.08 per mile plus the fuel surcharge. This is because intermodal is more of a shuttling. Even though they run 500 mikes per day it could be two or three loads in that day. I had one intermodal load that was inky 50 miles.
As Kat said... ALL truck miles count...both the ones you drive and that if the trainers.
Intermodal:
Transporting freight using two or more transportation modes. An example would be freight that is moved by truck from the shipper's dock to the rail yard, then placed on a train to the next rail yard, and finally returned to a truck for delivery to the receiving customer.
In trucking when you hear someone refer to an intermodal job they're normally talking about hauling shipping containers to and from the shipyards and railyards.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
And that is a lie that he doesn't get paid for empty miles. Lease ops get paid 72% of the load revenue. They do not get paid by the mile. They can take the load price and divide it by miles to get a per mile price. My first trainer said his FM paid him $1 per empty mile and flipped out one day when a load worked out to 88 cents per mile. He yelled that he gets paid more empty so he'd sit all day for a better load.
Intermodal is different and lease ops get paid $1.08 per mile plus the fuel surcharge. This is because intermodal is more of a shuttling. Even though they run 500 mikes per day it could be two or three loads in that day. I had one intermodal load that was inky 50 miles.
As Kat said... ALL truck miles count...both the ones you drive and that if the trainers.
Thank you for explaining this. Makes sense!!!
Intermodal:
Transporting freight using two or more transportation modes. An example would be freight that is moved by truck from the shipper's dock to the rail yard, then placed on a train to the next rail yard, and finally returned to a truck for delivery to the receiving customer.
In trucking when you hear someone refer to an intermodal job they're normally talking about hauling shipping containers to and from the shipyards and railyards.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.New Reply:
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So question, dispatched miles, combination of empty and loaded. As a company driver, are you paid on all dispatched miles, loaded or empty