What's a good pay per mile rate?

.75 a mile would be nice

 

I never said that youre asking what a good rate is ill go high and we can negotiate from there if you get my drift

 

That depends on the job.

 

If I was a driver looking for a job I'd be wondering about how my time was going to be compensated. That's as important as a rate per mile. Time is valuable. How are you going to compensate your drivers when the customer delays them for 6 or 8 hours when their 14 hour clock is already ticking? The companies who address this will have drivers and the ones who don't will not.

 

I wouldn't be too sure about finding drivers at that rate. We are a small company based in Indiana looking for drivers now, trying to start a refrigerated fleet. No benefits other than paid vacations, paid holidays, and a rider program. We are offering 25% of the truck gross, started off offering $0.40 per mile, to start and still can't find drivers. Been looking for about 3 weeks. Very few drivers want to be over the road anymore and the ones that do are asking closer to $0.50 a mile with as little as 5 years experience.

 

25% of the trucks gross is slave wages.

 

Llisten to what Ridge says he's a small fleet owner

 

Thanks but I say listen to the markets, when you offer low wages, you get low wage drivers.

 

Let me guess. 40 cents per mile on a 1099?