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Pay skyrocketing? Prime pays noobs .43 & Landair trucking pays .49 on regional! WTF?

Discussion in 'Motor Carrier Questions - The Inside Scoop' started by freightwipper, Oct 10, 2014.

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  1. Oct 10, 2014 #1
    freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    Man my .44 at Crete isn't looking so good anymore.
    When I starting driving a year ago I did a lot of research and the pay was nothing like it is today.

    Here's some links...

    Prime pays noobs .43 in their midget freightshaker trucks.. still a good deal coming right out of school: http://www.primeinc.com/paid-apprenticeship-cdl-training

    Landair has a midwest/southeast regional paying .49 and you only need 6 months experience http://drivingjobs.landair.com/jobs...driver-home-weekly-fl-ga-md-nc-oh-pa-sc-tn-va

    BTC flatbed pays .50 plus bonuses http://www.builderstransportation.com/

    If any of you out there are getting paid under .40 doing OTR I think it's time to do some research and take your talents elsewhere.

    I think finally carriers I starting to wake up to the fact that if they want drivers they're gonna have to pay more, so far I don't mind.

    Don't worry though.. you can still jump on an early morning east coast flatbed account at Schneider paying "up to" .34 http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...schneider-going-flatbed-offering-drivers.html

    :biggrin_2559:
     
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  3. Oct 10, 2014 #2
    Shaggy

    Shaggy Road Train Member

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    It's obvious who Prime wants, It's drivers, not about hauling freight.

    Who would you rather transport your product with. Threw in ABF for the "dry van " Prime can't always do reefer runs.
    MCT sure looks more like a freight carrier then Prime. lol

    Prime Home Page http://www.primeinc.com

    ABF Home Page http://www.abfs.com

    MCT Homepage http://www.mcttrans.com
     
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  4. Oct 10, 2014 #3
    Wicked Wizard

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    Please do not focus on the CPM. Talk to drivers and find out what they usually gross per week. My goal is to gross over a thousand a week regardless of where I go and what the cpm is. Do they pay stop pay? How much? After your first stop? Detention? after how many hours? How much? All big questions that nobody asks. They just take the job and scratch their head.
     
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  5. Oct 10, 2014 #4
    Chinatown

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    Cents per mile doesn't mean much if the accessorial pays aren't much. So, you're right, have to look at everything. HO Wolding advertises .48cpm plus a list of accessorial pays.
    Last company I worked for paid $25.00 for the stop, plus $12.00 hr. detention after one hour and some other pays. CPM was only .36 cents, but still made $65K per year. I took a month off every year to travel overseas and still made that much. Drivers that didn't take as much time off were making $72K per year.
     
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  7. Oct 10, 2014 #5
    Mev

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    Some companies are starting to pay off the odometer too,
    keep an eye out for this.
    Its a double ripoff if your getting low cpm and getting slammed with zip to zip
    or HHG miles.
     
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  8. Oct 10, 2014 #6
    gokiddogo

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    That's the only way they know how to keep drivers. Maybe good pay + treating a driver like the human being they are would go a long way to keep people doing this as a CAREER instead of a stop gap.
     
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  9. Oct 10, 2014 #7
    Puppage

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    Who's that FICA dude and why is he taking so much of my money?
     
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  10. Oct 10, 2014 #8
    freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    ABF is LTL union company
    Totally different category there.

    But that's the way to way
     
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  11. Oct 10, 2014 #9
    freightwipper

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    I knew this would come up lol.

    Point is one year ago I got job offers from Werner, Schneider and RE West... ALL for .26 CPM doing OTR
    Rates across the board are rising now.
     
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  12. Oct 10, 2014 #10
    Gunner75

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    And your ######## about increased pay?
     
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