Starting pay at $0.19/mi

.19 cpm....is that for all the miles the truck rolls?

Let's think about this. If it is, and the truck rolls, for example, 2400 miles during the pay week, that's over $450. How does that differ from the flat salary some companies offer?

You have to compare apples to apples; that is, gross earnings potential during the different phases of training.

 

i would laugh at a company that offered those wages new or not then after 4 weeks with a trainer ur on ur own with a fellow rookie....how is that possibly safe? i mean i was solo after 2 weeks first week boss rode with me second i followed him around like a lost puppy dog but i've been around trucking my whole life. 2 guys that possibly never even seen inside a big truck there entire life now thats scary

 

Starting pay can be misleading.

For comparision, stevens first 8 weeks @ $350 per week. Then rookie team for 3 weeks, also @$350 per week. Then solo at 26 cents per mile with increases every 3 months to 31 after 1 year.

Training is not free to the driver or the company

 

Geez.... Swift pays better than that...

 

For example, what does Swift pay a trainee while with a trainer (I honestly don't know...I'm looking for the comparison here....)

 

talk about slave wages. But someone will take that job as they want to drive oh so badly since they were a kid. translation they have a felony, bad MVR and cant get a job anywhere else.

 

I started at 16 cents a mile...back in the early 80's

 

no way would i work for that,should be illegal to pay that.

 

Swift, Schneider and Prime all pay better, but they don't hire from Canada, which is where the OP is located. Sorry, I don't know what is fair or not fair for Canada.