Negotiating wages

Hey if he can get it why mock him?

You really don't believe that a driver should sit for hours at a dock with no pay, do you? You want to sit in a cop car for 6 hours and get paid for 2?

If a hand can B.S themselves into a good gig, more power to them.

Being jealous of what someone else makes will make you bitter and angry at the world.

 

It didn't happen all the time, but there were loads that paid double rate. Problem loads. If the normal guys started at $.40/mile, I started at $.44/mile. The problem loads paid me $.88/mile+. The problem loads were loads where they have trouble making them legal or absolutely had to be on time. You problem solvers know who you are. Remember the thread started by the guy that got shut down at the scale and didn't know what to do? Some of you know exactly how to load that load so as to never have a problem with the scalemaster's.

If there's a heavy load that needs to be shipped, and there's no margin for error and the load cannot be cut, the problem solver knows exactly how to load it to where everything will be legal. Shipper needs 24 pallets moved. You're going to gross 79980, 53 ft box going to Florida from Chicago. You set your axles before you load. Once loaded, you scale out, axle weights are perfect every time. Bridge law? No problem. You load it right every time. The shipper likes dealing with you because you never have to come back. You leave on time, you arrive on time. Every time. When there's a problem, they will pay you. Another thing they may do is allow you, the company driver to pick and choose your loads. First empty, first loaded? That applies to the other drivers. Problem solver always gets first pick.

 

This is were hidden appreciation comes into play. Sure not making top rate, The side kickbacks sure makes the reward for a ATTA BOY deserving . This and many other things keeps drivers around. Problem solver, Should be rewarded and quicker to top rate. Prove yourself. Fresh out of CDL school employee SHOULD NEVER make same rate as the Problem solver until proved them self...

 

There you go.

I pay a $.34 cpm base rate to guys that want to go out and back in the same day...that means coming home empty sans back haul. Those that are willing to bounce for a back haul get $.44 on all miles. If it's over width they get an extra .14 up to 10 wide. Another .14 up to 12 wide and so on. For a 12 wide, that's .44 for all miles and .72/loaded mile on the OD leg of the trip. Just don't let me down.