What's a Newbie Worth?

Cost more than they're worth.

 

One billion dollars!......................

 

Well, seeing as I will be starting out very young, and being in Canada, I would say..

1. Just graduated - 20-30 cpm


2. 1-2 years - 25-35 cpm


3. 3-5 years. - 35+ cpm

 

after 5 years....???

$1.380

retirement...??

priceless......

 

HAHAHAHA now THAT is priceless!!

 

When I started in 03 I was getting .41 cpm after 3 months out of school. Now I am starting over it is ranging .17 to .31 cpm. I am doing a lot of reading on here I think it is just crazy how things have turned out. We know the companies are raising the freight all the time. It is a shame the companies are taking advantage of people needing work.

 

anyone to stay away from home 2-3 weeks at a time and live in a truck is worth 40 cents a mile starting with any experience.i could never see myself doing that,i need my beer and girl friends not them lot lizards!!!

 

I think one possible way to look at it could be a percentage based scale. A starting point could be to say a driver is considered experienced after 5 years driving. Therefore a newly licensed driver straight out of cdl school would be paid 1/5th of the current experienced driver pay at the particular company they are employed at. The pay would then increase by 1/5th on the anniversary of initial employment date providing the driver met a pre determined level of competency and skills for each year. Then so on to the 5th year when the driver can demonstrate the required level of skill to be considered an experienced and competent professional driver. This is how the apprenticeship pay was figured when i took my trade 10 years ago. I think it works well though I do realise that it is a very low rate of pay in the first 3 years and it would be very difficult for most people coming into the trucking industry at a later age in life when they may have family and mortgages and such to take care of. I have been in trucking only a very short time but i believe an apprenticeship style program could be well utilized in certain aspects of the trucking industry. Particularly in the more specialized areas of trucking. Its just my opinion but if anybody has any thoughts on this , post them up and lets see what ideas are out there.

 

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