What would a comparative hourly rate be for starters

Let's say you don't...then you make more money than an adult book store clerk making 7.5/hr. Plenty of smaller companies to work for paying more.

 

Sounds like you have a little experience in the "spunk cleaning" department......

*shudders*

 

One might even say he's................spunky.

 

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000=(x*40)+(+(x*1.5)+30)

change the 1000 to how much you would gross a week, and change 30 for how many overtime hours.

 

Had a friend of mine that started a cleaning company. A van, various sprayers chemicals...etc. Well, he went beating the bushes for work, landed a few contracts, grew his business, got into industrial clean up and environmental and hazmat clean ups, and now has a net worth of $40 mil.

Now if he were like you, one of these people that take the path of least resistance, waiting for Swift and England recruiters to show him the way into the adult entertainment industry, he would be the guy cleaning the video monitors, complaining about the pay and his lot in life and how angry he gets when the patrons call him 'Spunky'.

Right, Spunky?

 

The only correct answer is:
Your hourly rate would be whatever it needed to be to insure you grossed the same [or more likely less] then you did when you were mileage. Wether it be $7.50 or $25.00, it would be irrelevant to the driver or the carrier. Your gross pay 'aint going up if the industry were to change to an hourly model is the main point to be made. In fact the trend of having more drivers splitting the same available payroll [and making less money] will probably go into hyper-drive mode.

The "idiots" in upper management at the megas are not stupid as some here would have you believe.

If you think you will be paid hourly and will be able to be a poor producer and largely slack off isn't going to fly either. So you can just forget that notion, too. This is another reason the OTR truckload hourly model would fail. Because it would be up to the producers to work harder (for the same pay) to make up for the slackers and they're not going to do this long. Equally spread the misery would be the name of the game in an hourly pay model.

 

Cents per miles into an hourly rate,
10.00 to 12.00 an hr is what the average trucker makes that's before taxes insurance ect.

 

Can you imagine slackers getting to ride the clock?

2 hour pre trips. 2 hour post trips. Running down the 2 lanes at 15 mph. Running 300-500 miles per week and using a full 70. It'd take 3 weeks to get a slacker from Chicago to Houston.

 

I guess your assuming a "70 hour/8 day clock", which translates to 8.75 hours a day you can work. And are you figuring base rate pay for all 61 hours?
In most of the real world you'll make time and half if you were allowed to work past 40 hr/wk. This will not happen in the OTR truckload trucking world.
Like TripleSix says ... only thing an hourly pay model would do is extend the time it takes to "pre-trip a truck", and to get from point A to point B. Never mind all the abuses of unload and drop/hook time. Which is why this will never happen. A carrier is not going to pay a driver to sit in his bunk watching TV as he logs "on duty" at Giant Foods.