Pay rates going up?!

With all do respect friend...

We don't all work for mega fleets making mega fleet wages..

 

The 65 cpm is probably after bonuses if you run some ridiculous amount of miles. They probably pay around 58 or 59 cpm max. I make 45cpm for dry van work + 3 cpm for fuel and 2 more cpm if I ran over a certain amount of miles each month. The fuel bonus is very easy to obtain, you have to try not to. Plus if you factor in benefits like the 401k match, cheap health insurance, unemployment insurance, etc it's a way better deal than even 65 cpm on 1099. Especially factoring it's reefer work.

 

Who knows why/how they get away with it, but they do. The amount of tax revenue lost at state and federal levels because of hundreds of thousands of people taking pay under the table and not reporting this pay and not paying taxes on this pay, must be enormous.

But this is what happens more and more as you raise tax rates more and more and impose more and more tax regulations on "small business". They just avoid the IRS altogether and keep their fingers crossed.

 

.65 lie, .67 lie, .70 lie, .75 complete BS I should file a lawsuit for false advertising... Bunch of job advertisements that are 99% misleading

 

If we're talking about a "carrier" operated by a group from Russia or other country in that general area, then yes, 3,000 mpw will be the MINIMUM you will be expected to run, no matter the weather or the breakdown cause. If you shut down in Wyoming for 24 hours due to road closure, you'll be expected to make it up in the next 2 days to get back on schedule. (Don't expect them to move to eLogs, if they do, then there's a chance they may work out at least for a while)

I'd rather take a beating every day then work for a fly-by-night 1099 company that has to throw out click-bait numbers to get drivers to make the leap from the known to the unknown. Good luck but don't come back here in 4 months wondering where you can work without having a reference for your past 4 months (those people are no longer available for employment verification)

 

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