COMPANY DRIVER PAY

A company driver should never be paid by the mile. By the hour is the only way I'd drive a company truck again. I always thought mileage or % was a dishonest way of paying a driver in the 1st place.

 

I’ve driven on percentage pay already, I liked it! If the work is there, you can make out a lot better than someone who is getting paid by the hour and goofing off

 

I'm a company driver that's paid by the mile, all activities paid and as well as any delays. If you're paid well for everything you do the method at which they pay you doesn't matter.

 

The problem is that those drivers will goof off, instead of running the speed limit they keep it 10 under to get the extra time.
Im paid hourly, tanker work, I normally get 45-55 a week but it’s slowed down now just like a lot of freight.

 

This similar question seems to come up often, and there is no "one-size-fits-all"...... It depends on type of loads, company, your needs and willingness to work and stick to your guns...... I make a combo pay package..... Primarily $0.59/mile (avg 3100-3200 miles weekly ---- pretty good considering I'm regional UT, Idaho and one trip in northern NV)..... But also hourly for close to all "on-duty not driving" hours from eld in pay period at $24/hr......

I track my numbers and loads religiously in a spreadsheet..... And it's great pay..... Over 6 figures annually for last 3 years. If I average it to only a "per hour" it'd need to be $29-30/hr or only cpm it'd need to be $0.77/mile to make the same pay. Same load types for a different company and driver I know in same area makes similar annual range working as hard as I do but gets 25% of load payout to company plus detention time per hr.....

So it all depends on you, company, dispatcher, mechanics, etc ...... Look at the entire picture not JUST the hourly or cpm or % rates

 

And hourly pay will often have the boss micromanaging the driver more, not less than mileage pay. If the boss wants to know how long it takes to go from A to B, and you have been doing it a long time, he puts a new driver on the route and and suddenly he sees his old hand is taking hours longer than other drivers. Guess who is NOT going to let that continue?

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Drivers getting mileage think the other ways to pay a driver are so much better, often because they have not been paid via the other methods so they don't know what problems come with the different pay methods.

 

I’m pulling reefer and I’m at $.70/mile with an extra $.05/mile for hazmat loads. Weekly miles have been inconsistent at best. I’ve been as low as 1800 and got above 3000 a couple of times over the summer., but most weeks I fall in the 2200-2500 range.

 

74cpm plus 2cpm bonus. 3000plus miles weekly. Otr flatbed. Also 5cpm bonus for winter month

 

That's pretty good for company pay.

You figure running your own truck at $1.20 mile just for the truck, diesel, insurance, plates, HVUT, Taxes, plus $.70/mi driver pay.

Yeah, equals out to about $2/mile for a big fleet, driver gets 70 cents per miles on an average 25-2700 mi week.