What Companies Are Currently Offering Guaranteed Minimum Pay Per Week?

I work for smaller trucking company and they have guaranteed minimum pay every week. It like $950 a week for 5 days on and two days off at home. If you want to run 7 days a week it like $1100.

They run regional so it’s hard to get much more than the minimum pay. Maybe I just don’t have that push for every dollar anymore. Having ELDs and all the limitations put on drivers it’s not worth pushing everything to the max trying to get a little more pay. It hard to get lots of mileage pay running regional.

 

I even thought about calling this trucking company. They pay by the hour.

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If you keep your head down and run the miles, you can guarantee yourself $1000 per week. An experienced driver makes that pretty easily these days.

 

No local jobs paying by the hour near you?

That seems like a very low bar to clear. You can do much better.

I make $1500/week (before tax withholding and maxing out my 401K and HSA contributions, but after my employee share of health insurance premium) driving four days a week, total of about 33 hours. I could bid for a schedule that gives me more hours and more money, but this 'part-time' schedule suits me well, gives me time for life out of the truck.

 

Guaranteed pay = Lots of sitting, no demurrage

 

kllm has regional fleets and dedicated accts with the minimum guarantee; unfortunately, most of those accts are full and many are geo-locked. It’s possible to get on a list for them and churn still exists, we recently cut driver pay by idk, 5-10%? (I went from 15 to 14 hundred). I’d reach out to a recruiter to see if there are any for your area as well as getting a firm commitment about getting on when an opening comes along.

eta: according to our website, we’ve currently got an open state-licked minimum guarantee acct… hazmat required, probably with our sis/subsidiary company Eco-Shield. Most of our accts seem to be word of mouth amongst drivers or offered up to retain drivers, I very rarely see them advertise; I’ve also had them call me up and offer open positions before. Best bet is to just call and ask, may get lucky.

etaa: and a pa one, maybe fresh express… and a ga non-minimum? hmm, looks like the one they accidentally put me on, got great miles that week but cpm was unexpectedly low.

 

Hey friend I seriously need a moment . Have to make a decision by this month . ‍♂️

 

Where did u go ?curious

 

I applied for them ... but spoke to some drivers and they said that they force dispatch ..and disturb you on breaks before it's even over and would even call the place your parked at or send a driver to knock on ur door. Also another said they slip up on your planned home time to make you stay longer , like purposely.

 

I heard of them when I looked up top companies ..they were no 1 . How long you been with them . Whats the pro and cons please ? .