any one no what truckers are geting for pulling containers out from ports on the east

before you even drive one mile for him you need to find out what these loads pay. he knows so dont let him say he doesnt. thirty two percent does seem kinda low. and see how many of these loads you will be pulling each week. see if you can get some kind of guarantee on the amount of money you will make each week.

 

The guys who make really good money pulling containers are those that do the short haul loads. This is because the container loads pay a minimum amount per load. That minimum is like $250 dollars or somewhere near that. So if you pick up a can from the port, take it 5 miles across town to unload it, the truck is paid that $250 minimum for that five mile trip. If you can do two of these loads a day, five days a week, you have a pretty sweet deal since there is very little expenses involved with running so few miles. The problem is; everybody knows this and it is usually the guys that have been pulling for a company since the stone age that get these loads. The new guys usually get stuck with the longer stuff that notoriously pays pretty crappy in that segment of the industry.

 

The amount of money you make depends on how the owner is paid. Is he paid on mileage or percentage.

How are you going to be paid? 32% of the gross is a pretty good bit, but 32% of the net (amount to the truck) is not so good of a deal.

This being a private owner, is he going to take out taxes and give you a W2? If not, and you get a 1099, you are losing another 15-20% of your pay in all the matching taxes you will now have to pay instead of the employer.

Another question, how about holidays and vacation pay? Are you going to be covered by workers comp? This is very important in case you get hurt on the job.

It is hard to make it on containers, especially with fuel as high as it is. Most companies only rate the freight one way, so they only pay the truck a fuel surcharge for the loaded miles. Under situations like mileage pay the truck gets shorted a lot.

Another thing, container company owners are usually brokers who are in the witness protection program, and will lie to you and cheat you every chance they get.

I pulled for one container company that was straight up and fair, but all the others were to be watched very carefully.

 

please tell me how much mental help i need. very spoiled being home every weekend. i don't want this to sound like i'm complaining about the company i'm leased to because it's of my own decision! i'm leased to a container company whose corporate office is in charlotte, nc. overall average for me is $1.30 per mile for every hub mile driven, with fuel costs of $0.577 cents per mile at 6.22 mpg c-15 W900L at 63 mph
they look for every chance they can to bill you for their sorry tires. i average 63% loaded 29% empty and the rest bobtail. i keep my out of route miles to a very minimum, stay out through the week, no eating out, pull as light of loads available. (non forced dispatch)

they do what they say they will and that's good but they keep half the national fuel surcharge and keep half the detention pay charged to the customer and half the hazmat. detention is $40.00 per hour after 2 hours waiting from appointment time and $50.00 extra for hazmat loads. you buy your own tag, pay your own fuel taxes, $1500.00 escrow.