So what does a load really pay?

From where I sit ….. Unless you are on % the pay on the load has no bearing on your pay .
The thing that's gives you bargaining power is your worth to the company .
Now I promise you this..... Your worth in your minds eye is not the same as your boss has in his mind .

The way to go about asking for more money than the next monkey is to prove your not an average monkey!
If you can show that you are better for the companies bottom line then you just might get what you ask for . Just going in and doing your job the way it supposed to be done without drama and hand holding is better than the average monkey in this zoo we find ourselves in .

This as any other opinion is with what you paid for it

 

If it was in my area I’d say $900. Down in your part of the country it’d be more.

 

My thought now at this point is how long has the OP spent at this company? Less than six months? Most companies you have to spend 3-5 years to get top rate, or have a million years experience.

Loyalty means a lot to good companies, and you won't ever get rewarded for your hard work until you prove to them you aren't just hopping around to the highest rate.

 

Exactly. This isn't Walmart where there's a non-negotiable sticker price on every item. So many variables.

 

Pretty much $100/hour. If it’s a load that I don’t want I’ll add a couple hundred to get them to go away, or make it worth the suffering.

 

Same. That's my magic number as well.

 

I usually figure 3 hours to load and unload. Anything over 2 hours wait time on either end is $100/hour additional. They usually get their ### in gear after I tell them that.

 

I look at what I want, and what stuff like that pays.

I worked for Titan at 53-54k a year. Home on weekends for day and a half but no touching freight, no real pressure on loads etc.

When they volunteered three hours of my time to Bridgestone I left. Others stayed

I tried Schneidee Dollar General for a week before I found out what lying POS scumbags they were.
I went to work at HUB group when they took over Comtrak the year I was there I made 70k in both hourly ($12 an hour IIRC) and $.17 a mile with short hauls paying $25 or $50 flat depending off Sat and Sunday.

Walmart opened up hiring at Hopkinsville and I went there. Close to 86k but it was rough at first. Extra board, jumping trucks, 140 mile commute, 5.5 day work weeks. Now I have my own truck 5 day until rush starts we spend about a two months working everything we can from Nov 1 to Jan 1. Nature of being a big retailer.



My point is you have to decide if it pays what you want.

Now you could want 100k a year but is what you are doing specialized enough to warrant that.

Chem guys, gas haulers, car haulers pay more but there is bigger risk.

Walmart pays more but the standards are high. And starting is not super fun. But if you survive it gets better.

The choice is yours this is a driver's market. You could tell them all the sitting isn't paying enough so you are going to look around. They may offer an hourly rate for sitting. They may say hit the road.

If you have a clean CDL it will take about three minutes for a new job, or a week for a better job.