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When you guys go fiddlefarting down the road at 55 mph, trying to attain a fuel bonus, in 10 hours, not 11, you will be 100 miles behind. If you are a company driver and getting paid by the mile, your bread and butter is going to be RUNNING AS MANY MILES AS YOU CAN IN A DAY, EVERY DAY. No bonus, straight up pay.

Take a fuel bonus, and divide it up by the number of days it takes to get it. Say for example, every month, you get a $500 fuel bonus. That's $6000 extra a year, right? Sounds great! But divide $6000 by 365 and you get a whopping $16.44 a day. You're losing $27.56 in potential earnings every day you drive. I'd rather drive like an idiot...it's WAY more profitable to the driver.

 

Getting paid by mileage is a scam and always will be. Hourly or percentage is the only way drivers should be paid. Percentage plus hourly for line 4 is ideal but rare to find.
A more realistic number for days out a year is 265. Unless your with one of them companies that don't believe in home time. I'm home every weekend. I still gross $1200 a week paid hourly. I only run maybe 2200-2500 miles a week. Last year I averaged .57 a mile.

 

Oh, so your driving smart is riding the clock...

Makes sense now. If you are paid percentage, you're paid by the load. Driving like an idiot would open you up for more loads. Still would be much more money than your fuel bonus would add up to be.

 

And no, I DONT believe in "hometime".

 

I feel bad for you then.

 

I run 55. God forbide I get hit from behind... If so, I hope it's one of those idiots that complains about it.

Any idiot driving 56-80 mph that can't see me from a mile away or avoid a truck of my size deserves what he gets.

 

mileage pay is a scam? Im hourly when on duty not driving and mileage when driving I can make over $4.00 an hour more than if I was hourly and thats at slightly over 50 mph average give me a 625 mile day and I can blow my hourly clear off map..I was paid hourly driving years ago its great if you want to fiddle around Id rather go than screw around everywhere..but thats just me everybody is different

 

If I can find a mileage job that pays me what this hourly does I'll switch. I have yet to find a Otr company that pays mileage worth a ####. I make .57 a mile now. You name one Otr company that will get me home every weekend and holidays and pay that much.