TransAm trucking 1 year experience starts u at .32CPM!?! What makes them worth it?

Here is an article concerning Massachusetts new minimum wage law.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

Massachusetts Hikes Minimum Wage to $11



It's official: Massachusetts is raising its minimum wage from $8 to $11.
State lawmakers gave final approval yesterday to a bill that would raise the minimum wage incrementally to $9 per hour in 2015, $10 in 2016 and $11 by 2017. Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to sign the measure into law.

At $11, Massachusetts will have the highest statewide minimum wage in the nation.

The move comes just weeks after Seattle's City Council made headlines for approving a minimum wage hike to $15 per hour. Seattle's plan – which gives corporations with 500 employees or more until 2017 to implement the new minimum wage and small-businesses until 2019 or, in some cases 2021– drew controversy over its decision to classify franchises as big businesses. Arguing that franchisees should be grouped with other small-business owners, the International Franchise Association is suing the city of Seattle.

Related: Franchisees Take Action Against Seattle's Minimum Wage Law
The IFA does not plan to take similar action in Massachusetts. "While we’re not in favor of raising the minimum wage, the Massachusetts proposal does not affect franchisees in the same way,” an IFA spokesman told Nation's Restaurant News.

The minimum wage debate has drawn heated words from President Obama. In a speech directed at Congressional Republicans who blocked a bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $10.10, he lashed out, saying "Either you want to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up so that prosperity is broad-based, or you think that top-down economics is the way to go."

Meanwhile, critics argue that a higher minimum wage would directly and negatively affect small-business owners and job seekers alike, as employers stop hiring because they can't afford to pay more workers.

 

Dude I'm down for a forum Paystub to paystub anyday rookie. Do you smell what the rock is cooking Dude really how many miles you average. I was at a place with a Create driver. Red Bull Near Laporte. This dude was an OTR guy and his load was going to Beaumont. Are you kidding me. Dude. I put on Miles not play regional 200 mile a day games. Super trucker hall of fame is my aim!! Cheaaaa!!

 

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[TH="align: left"] Pay Summary[/TH]
[TH="align: right"]This Period[/TH]
[TH="align: right"]YTD[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Earnings[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$1,434.80[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$36,656.75[/TD]
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[TD]Pre-Tax Deductions[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$-71.46[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$-1,745.04[/TD]
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[TD]Federal Taxable Wages[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$687.14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$24,717.13[/TD]
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[TD]Social Security Taxable Wages[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$687.14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$24,717.13[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Medicare (HI) Taxable Wages[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$687.14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$24,717.13[/TD]
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[TD]Total Taxes[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$-139.80[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$-6,031.11[/TD]
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[TD]After-Tax Deductions[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$-702.07[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$-9,245.05[/TD]
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[TD]Net Pay[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$521.47[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$19,698.55[/TD]
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Dude let the pay stubs do the talking, because you have to think I was born last week to believe you doing 2800 a week. Oh by the way this is my last stub. Check is low because I had 3 days in the shop and they forgot to pay me for breakdown and NYC pay. It will be on the next on. Peep the Year ending my friend. I'm on a roll @ .40cpm. As Joseph says. You got to learn how to work kid

 

Prime starts folks right out of the training gate at 42-cpm.

Oh... that's right. They're so terrible. You have to drive slow.

...only if you want in on the variable fuel bonus paid weekly.

 

No one pushes leases at Prime... it's against company policy, and will get someone terminated. I spent three years on the company-side, and never heard the word "lease" except when they mentioned the fact that there was a lease program during orientation. No one sits around waiting for trucks at Prime... unlike some carriers... you get assigned a truck as soon as one is available.

http://w3.primeinc.com/potential-drivers

Don't take my word for it... check out the posts in the Prime forum, and ask the other guys who post there.