Pay

There's a lot of good opinions and thoughts going on in this thread. Several have alluded to something that we all should be looking at.

What we all need to keep an eye on is total compensation package. That include rate per mile, accessorial earnings (extra stop, trail hook, trailer drop, driver unload, and all the other side pays), and benefits packages.

One way to look at this is what does a real world week look like at the company and what will show on the pay stub.

I have recently considered a job that paid 20 cents per mile. That was because the 20 cents per mile was paid on top of the significant hourly pay. The per mile pay was just a little gravy for the meat and taters.

Where the accessory pay comes in is along the lines of one place I hauled for that had an aggressive extra stop pay plan. Basic 1 pic/1 drop load had no extra pay. first 2 extra stops paid $50 each, extra stop 3 & 4 paid $75 each. 5 & 6 were $100 each. Don't recall the numbers past that. Real world example of how that played out. Start picking up product at a bunch of small packing houses in the south San Joaquin Valley, Hit 6 little citrus houses for a total of $450 accessory pay then head to Bakersfield for a cooler with lot's of overnight parking available, unfortunately they took 4 or more hours to get the product in the truck but I'm sleeping in the parking lot. Finish getting the load there at night and leave out in the morning.

 

Zero to the power of zero, denoted by 0⁰, is a mathematical expression with no agreed-upon value.

0 Divided by 0?

notice a trend?

 

in 2009 i was a rookie for cfi and i made .31 and thought i was doing fair, as long as i got some miles.