C.P.M or PERCENTAGE

Depends on whether or not you get to see original freight bills, and do you get a choice.

Need more information.

 

depends on rates. If you are being paid for all miles you have an idea what you will be making. If you are on percentage you can do well as long as the freight is paying well. If your dispatch takes cheap freight you will lose.

 

Depends. What's the cpm and what are you hauling?

 

With or without FSC?
Loaded /empty miles or both?
% of accesorials?
You pay fuel/ boss pays fuel?
Rate negotiable?
Freight type?

This is kinda like pulling teeth here. I'm out.

 

General rule

Local or regional go percentage

Long haul 48 state go cpm

 

Every situation is different. 20% may make sense at place A, but make no sense at place B. Depends on the type of hauling and how the rates are structured and what is required and expected of the driver and the time "lost" in various situations.

 

@STexan has a good rule of thumb.

If you do a lot of short hops with a lot of downtime, you won't get a lot of miles, so the mileage pay would have to be very high, or percentage would be more fair.

I worked on percentage at two jobs. One hauling steel (short regional runs with tons of downtime), and one going to Long Island twice a week. Since loads going through NYC pay a lot more, percentage was a good deal for me.

But 20% sounds a bit low. 25% used to be pretty standard, and is what I got at both jobs. It gives you a taste of what owner/operators deal with when they have to take low-paying brokered backhauls to get home to their primary customers.