my paul inc adventure

Month two mileage was 11,500 (give or take) total driven miles.

 

Indiana to Oklahoma Steel coils, Oklahoma to San Antonio drywall, SA to Okla rebar runs plus a local run brought home over $900 today.

 

Everything is dot inspected. Maintenance is kept up. I guess it used to be crappy, but I bring something up it gets fixed.

 

Effective today.... New pay scale.

40 cpm is my rate.

Pay is based on flatbed experience

1 year driving with load securement training is 40 cents per mile

1-2 years 41
3-4 years 42
5-6 years 43
7 years or more 44

Trainees:
33 cpm 0-3 months

35 cpm 3-6

37 cpm 6-9 with verifiable regional or OTR

39 cpm 9-12 with verifiable regional or OTR

While with a trainer $490 a week (2-4 weeks minimum)

Orientation pay is $100 a day for the week.

 

Truck was down for a day and a half for a mystery leak no one can find. I lost a long load because of being down.

It will be a very crappy paycheck for next Friday just because of no runs.

DM is making up for it by having me deliver to southern Alabama (yesterday) followed by a run near Rock Island Illinois that unloads Monday.

 

Other bad news I've seen come across my Qualcomm was the complete conversion to E-logs. This is supposed to happen in September. I guess the Feds are pushing this on everyone.

 

Delivered early in Illinois (near Rock Island) on Monday and deadheaded to Redfield Iowa (west of Des Moines) got a load of brick and delivered that to OKC Tuesday afternoon.

Reloaded with steel to Frisco TX for the Dallas Cowboys stadium that delivered Wednesday morning. Got a load of lumber and delivered that to Liberal Kansas yesterday afternoon.

Waiting in Medicine Lodge Kansas to go back to Tulsa for the weekend.

If I figured correctly my weekly miles are 2,631.

Tulsa load delivers Monday.