Does Prime hire drivers with no experience?

Western looks like 4 days with no pay (3 days of classroom and 1 day driving test, then 20 days with training pay.
After that you're solo making same as everyone else.Sometimes we do what we have to do to get rolling.

Paschall Truck Lines might hire you; they run Eastern half of USA.

Pride Transport offers a 1 week refresher course; this from the website.

" We also offer the most comprehensive training program in the business for recent CDL graduates and a one week refresher for those with less than recent experience.

• Pride Drivers average 42 cents per mile
• Affordable health insurance for you & your family
• Retirement Plan with a weekly 10% match
• Newer Freightliners, Kenworths and Peterbilts
• Generous bonus opportunities for MPG and mileage
• Paid vacation after one year employment
• 100% No Touch Freight
• Pets OK
• Rider Program
• 100% company drivers

 

Yep, come here fresh from a hole in the wall training school with a CDL in hand and they place you in a training Phase that will put you with a trainer for like 40k miles (the time actually goes by pretty fast)

 

On being unemployed for so long the best thing to do is call one of Prime's recruiters and ask about it. If good there Prime will make you do 40,000 miles with a trainer with a starting pay of $500 a week before taxes. On the 40,000 miles that means every mile the truck turns no matter who is driving you or the trainer you just have to be on the truck for 40,000 miles. So as said above it goes by pretty quick and can be done in about 2 months depending on if your trainer takes hometime during your training.

 

I think it's $700 minimum now while being trained

 

is the the new pay of 700 a week only the last weeks of training and 500/600 for the frst or 700 full time your training?

thats really good pay im hoping to get called from prime this week getting a hold of my recruiter is a nightmare all day phones busy, they are super busy.

 

For initial PSD before coming in to test for CDL, unpaid. Can take $200wk advance to be deducted out of later pay at $25wk till paid back.

After passing CDL & considered employed, TNT now at guaranteed $700wk until you come in to upgrade to your own truck. (Just recently upped). While out in TNT, if you exceed certain milage/wk....there is additional pay. Can't remember exact, so won't quote right now. Someone may chime in on that.

 

Email is usually the best way to get a hold of your recruiter at least it was for me. If the new pay scale in affect then if you come with a CDL but no experience then it is $600 for the first 5 weeks you are on the truck and avalible for dispatch and then after that it goes to $700.

 

With so long a break after receiving your CDL, I imagine they'll want to run you through PSD with an instructor as a refresher course.