Driver wages

Yep nothing has changed! In fact doesn't Swift start there guys at like .24 CPM or some crap like that? By the looks of it driver wage has gone up what, maybe a couple pennies per mile? That is so sad!

 

I know when i started in 1992 at victory express i got .19 a mile now you see students get .36 to start

 

no doubt and with so many thinking they can make big bucks still they have new lining up as the old walk out realizing how much they really loss I mean be gone from family for an extra few hundred bucks heck thats spent on the extra to keep you feed separate from the family. They come from a 30000-35000/yr to the 40000-45000/yr it sounds great to them till you realize you spent all that time away cramped in a truck for only 5 grand more than staying at home after you spent an extra 100+ a week on personal needs in the truck.

 

that's with them paying the schooling right? I started at .24 since they paid the school stayed 4 months got a job else where at .36 and I paid off the school and came out way ahead of what the same miles would have been had I stayed.

 

It's supply and demand. Simple laws of economics. You flood an permanently anemic economy with labor, you will maintain a stagnant labor rate. Want better wages? Hope for more more trucking demand (better economy and actually more truck loads moving, not more demand to replace high driver fail/quit rates), and fewer people who need to or want to work ... aint neither one gonna happen any time soon

 

Looks like the only thing that has changed was the price of fuel, it was between $1.14-$1.30 in '96.

 

I got 0.40 for start. not started yet, they can't start my truck for 2 days, too cold in Chicago.

 

This USA is gret...
In Rusia they pay me 10 cent mile
Her I mek 25 with Swft.


I make gret mony drive track in US.