Negotiating wages

I did, but I had verifiable previous experience, and lots of it. It's kind of hard for an athlete to get a shoe deal without first getting ESPN to notice you.

 

After 2 years.... mayyybe.
But with less experience, it's scarcer than hen's teeth to legitimately be able to supply any recruiter with even a fraction of "ammo" to satisfy the recruiter's "Why do you deserve more CPM over any other newer driver?". That's the brick wall that only experience can hurdle.

 

So you want 075 cpm, 60$ per hour detention time after 1 hour waiting with 1 year experience smh

 

I just did that this week. Recruiter (only one in the office, talking a company less then 100 trucks) quoted me a starting wage with the experience I had. I chewed it over, considering the other benefits they offered, and decided that it just wasn't enough. Called her back and she said give her 10 minutes. She calls me back and says that the head of ops said they could start me .02 cpm higher. Said that's good enough for me. Sure it ain't alot of money but besides the increase in pay I'm more than willing to give any company a shot that is willing to listen to me and make me happy.

 

All drivers within the same company should be paid the same. Drivers aren't competing against each other so why should they worry about someone else's paycheck? I worked for a hazmat/tanker company and we all were paid the same and all drivers, new and old, made about $65K per year; what's wrong with that?
If I'm hauling a load of produce from California to Florida and another driver from the same company is running along with me, why should he be paid less than me? Answer; he shouldn't be paid less than me because it's fair and it doesn't affect my paycheck.

 

You don't think paying experienced drivers more is a good way to keep them around? If you aren't paying experienced drivers more why won't they leave your company for one that does? And if you are already paying them enough that they want to stay that of course means raising the pay for the new guys who have yet to get the experience that you were paying a premium for in the first place. I don't understand why raises are considered a bad thing, or why you expect a guy who just got hired to make the same as someone who has worked for the same company for 10 years.

 

Plenty of things wrong with that. 5,10,15,20,25,30 experienced employee should never make the same wage as a 1 year employee. That's why turnover is so high. Highly disagree Chinatown. What's the point of sticking with a employer, It's a insult. Loyalty should have better rewards, then a confused new to company employee and not sure if staying more then a year.

 

I agree with Chinatown but our company does something a little different.

Everyone is paid the same. For Instance, if I take a load of diesel to one of the mail hauling companies here it pays me $40. A driver with 15 years experience will be paid the same for that load, $40.

Now, you get something called "Experience pay". It can vary based on how much experience you have coming into the company and how long you've been here.

For instance, I started at 23 years of age and 2 years experience which was the minimum requirement. My first year I get no experience pay, since I meet the minimum. After I've been here and year I now make a little extra every load.

Our experience pay is a percentage of what the load pays. If I run that trucking company load like I talked about above, I'll make $40 plus $1.10 for experience meaning I male $41.10 for that load.



My trainer, who had 15 years with hauling fuel, over 10 of those years with our company, made about an extra $10 on that load. Your pay goes up every year you're with our company.


Hopefully that all made sense haha