Not sure what company is good to work for or one that isn't as bad as the others

Tyson isnt hiring in either of our areas, so that doesnt work for him.

 

Thats extremely cheap for a company flatbed driver. When I was a company driver, I wanted to make minimum $200 a day. I was able to do that at Swift. Went to a higher end company and started making between 275-325 a day for every day I ran. Anyways, Chinatown is right...you can get another job, no problem.

raise your right hand and repeat after me, "No Finance, NO romance."

 

you are NETTING 650 per week, and you have 4 mo experience? not that bad, stick it out. i think some of you didnt notice the net. how much do you gross per week? do you get more % with more time in?

 

People take about companies like they are living organisms. They are just a piece of paper. All companies have people in them that have the ability to become A S S ho les. What you have to do is find a way to deal with them. Set standards for yourself and stick to them. Act like a professional and demand to be treated as such. That includes pay. Jerome B. Hunt was famous for saying he only had to make one penny a mile profit with all the trucks he had. Larger companies can undercut owner operators. But they can only do that if the drivers allow their wages to be cut.

When you are starting out, your insurance cost to the company are higher then those with experience have. You also burn more fuel and are harder on the equipment. Therefore it is proper to pay newbies less then those with miles behind them. But there is a limit to what you should take. 38 cent a mile is the least you should except. I have never worked for less then 45 cpm.

I am sure many will disagree but we should all want a bigger slice of the pie.

 

Is that Good? Only you can decide that. Have you given them a counter offer? Are you prepared to walk away if you ask them for .38 cpm to start and they tell you no?

I do not know what lanes the company you are looking at is in but I looked at today's rate out of Cincinnati, Ohio to Atlanta, GA and it is $2.11 per mile. So .30 seems awful cheap to me. If you are just using your first company to gain experience before moving on it might be worth it. Or if you are not in the country legally, then work cheap.

I would advise all newbies who are working for less then .40 cpm to park their trucks. But we no longer seem to be willing to act together. People actually are anti-union when unions built the middle class in this country. JMHO.....