Percentage pay?

They sound honest and I don't say that much.

 

Exactly, not to mention the wait times to get a flip... I've waited a good 4 hours on different occasions just to have the container flipped around

 

Always gross, 99% of local co. Are 1099....

 

your very wrong

 

Ok, care to elaborate?

 

99% of local companies are on a 1099? How do you figure? The company you work for is owned by a foreign guy which most companies that are owned by foreigners are.

 

I worked for two companies owned by, what I suppose, you'd call Americans and they paid 1099 to their drivers as well. One of them happens to be the biggest locally owned cartage operation in Chicago. But yes, there are, I suppose companies that don't pay 1099 to their employees in Chicago Intermodal....

 

Ok I didn't realize you are talking about intermodal companies only... I was think you meant "local" in general... So you possibly could be right... Who is the biggest cartage player in Chicago area?

 

Patella and their companies (Pacella, Cushing, Accell, Allecap) all owned by same family....

 

I'm paid on a split of percentage and hourly, as a company driver. Our O/O's are paid solely on commission. Anything I do within 100 air mile radius of Denver is hourly, beyond that is percentage, my current rate is 30% (I'm topped out) percentage and $21.50/hourly. AS to whether or not it pays more depends on the load, the destination, whether or not there is detention involved, the broker and the customer. As a rule, I will make more doing percentage loads than I will doing hourly loads. When, IF, bean season hits this year, my typical day will be start at 4 am, on the road by 4:30, at the customer by 7:45, on the road by 9:45, can off at the ramp about 1:15 pm, then 3 to 3.5 hours of local. The percentage loads pay about $250 to $260 gross for a 8.5 hr day.

AS an O/O, I'd want at least 85% to the truck, but, that would typically mean you're an Indy and using the trucking company as a broker, so on a $1,000 load, you'd get $850, they would keep $150 as their "fee". I know O/O's that are getting 90% to 95% to the truck, and lease operators that are getting 75% to the truck, so it depends on the company.