CPM and revenue debate

you hear so much talk about cpm, ive heard many drivers say this, "it doesnt matter how much per mile you get if you dont get any miles", i know this is an owner op thread but whether your an owner op or a company driver wouldnt all that matters be how much revenue you make and how much time you spend making it. maybe ive never worked anywhere that ive gotten "no miles", ive had bad weeks but in a bad week its still better to have a higher cpm, so even as a company driver i would think its not about miles but how much your making per day and how much time you spend making it. you always hear owner ops that talk about revenue not miles, i would think it would be the same even as a company driver. maybe im an idiot an dont buy into the work harder not smarter model that most companies seem to go by. any thought from owner ops.

 

ya thats not a hard choice, and for me living in the northeast its even better. i used to work with guys where we got paid by the run, it was a good job and good pay but these guys would fight over the highest paying runs, they were the highest paying runs but they would do the runs that u would have to work an extra 2 hrs a day for what was only about 20$ more per day,but i guess 20$ per day times 4 wks is about 400$ a month, but they were workn about an extra 40hrs a month for that 400$ so it never made any sense to me other than the fact that they were in debt and had to make that little extra to get by.that just didnt seem worth it to me. i guess there are many ways to look at it but its simple for me, make the most most money for least amount of time, even if that means less on the gross side. i think im just getting sick of the company driver mentality. ive noticed its getting harder for me to even talk to other company drivers anymore

 

thats about it, sounds kinda crazy but i go more on feeling, how much did i make that yr, how hard did i work , how much time did i have off and how worn out do i feel overall. and like you said did i enjoy myself. problem is you get so many drivers that will say im not out here to enjoy myself, im out here to run.lol guess thats why so many are miserable

 

yes exactly, my problem is they start lookn at you like ur the oddball lol i was workn with a driver at a company and one summer i was thinkn of leavn so they put me on part time, i went into work one day and hadnt seen this driver for awhile, they asked me what i was doing with a confused look on their face, maybe because im not that old where i would retire so they didnt know what i was doing. this driver had just bought a new 35k$ dodge charger, when i said i went over to part time untill i figure out my next step, they seemed very confused. i thought to myself well that brand new car couldv bought you the summer off with your family. but ur comin in here 6days a wk and dont seem too happy lol i dont care what anyone else does, its when they try an make you feel like somthin is wrong with you that bugs me, i wonder if this is what they do with younger kids,its no wonder younger people are so confused, and also i was driving the junkiest old van into work everyday so that didnt help things, well it did for me lol