Get paid .92cpm or a percentage?

how is that? You know that Swift/IEL will accept company drivers to lease a truck after only 3 mo. experience? You really think, after 3 mo. a driver knows how to operate the truck as their business?

let me ask you this way.....if you take a cross section of all the lease ops driving today....how many have 6mo or less experience...and how many have been driving for a year plus? How many of those repo trucks were from drivers who just didn't have any experience.

See, if you ask the ones who got their truck repoed.....and ask them honestly, why they failed.....you'll find they didn't take into any thought about where to fuel.....their route.....and thinking they could go home whenever they wanted (every weekend?) AND turned down any load that wasnt 1000 miles. you think a driver like that is going to make it?

LOL....i dont think so.



and injun....no worries.....

 

ok....so why is everyone giving me so much dung about it ? been driving for two yrs. as for me, my head isnt any bigger now than it was when i was a company driver, just because i'm an "O/O" (lease op). I dont walk any different. I still put my pants on the same. You see some of these guys at terminals, some who wear those lame "mentor" shirts like its a 'status' thing.....those same guys will almost strut....like their 'cool', or they're better than you, the peeon company driver, becuase they're an "owner/op". oh...lets not forget they are too good to waive at company drivers anymor as they pass by entering/exiting terminals or in the yard.

i'm not like that. still the same. i still waive. and as of yet, i havent had the chance to sit at a terminal to even consider 'bragging' i'm an O/O. When i got my truck in Columus, i didnt drive it around the yard to show it off, didn't brag to anybody i just leased a truck. cause really...who cares?

my average runs being a co. driver were around 300-350/day. So far, leaseing, they've been 500-600. Heck....i had a load from central KS to southern Indiana. almost 800 ttl miles, picked up on the 19th, but didnt live unload till the 21st. i asked to t-call this, and memphis set it up as a t-call in edwardsville. i said i was not t-calling in edwardsville cause that would be giving up $500. My DM came in the next morning, and said that the CSR told him that if i could get it there by 130p on the 20th, they'd take it early. and guess what....i drove 10 hrs from shipper to SW indiana, 650 miles in 10 hrs. and why? because i know i need to run hard. i know enough to not lolly-gag around in truck stops just to show off my truck.

it is an ego thing more than anything......for those who jump into a lease plan without doing some research.

 

ill probably stay out 2-3 weeks. and take my normal 1.5 days off. I mean i gotta have some hometime SOMETIME. not going to be like some of these co. drivers who are out for a month at a time before getting 2 days off.