I just quit my 65 cpm job

It'd be nice to have both, but I've heard the theory that companies will top off drivers' miles once the get to 2500 or so. I've noticed that companies that pay hire cpm don't cover as much of the country.

 

Regardless of the cpm the bottom line is, the truck should stay loaded and moving

 

whew.

Story of my life.

And you wonder why I love the west. Hand me a Yakima Boston run 3000 miles 5 days It'll be there. Don't bother me on the way. Im busy keeping that schedule.

But bounce me a ping pong spending a few hundred in bridge tolls? Nuh uh. (I am a little slow sometimes in the head you see, only took me maybe 30 years to stop that silly wasteful running the NE.)

Now come on about those little roads. Keeps you awake don't they? (There is a section of OLD OLD US 30 the original from about the literally the mid 20's I think for a few miles just west of the Gettysburg Battlefield give or take a few fields as the crow flies, THAT was a SMALL road indeed. I had a like a 96 inch wide truck then and had outside tires hanging off that sharp edge...

 

I would have kept the job
65 cpm loaded and unloaded 2500 miles=1650$
So your one hour detention should be worth what you make an hour driving. If your going 60 mph that would be a mile a minute, so your hourly detention pay would be 39$ an hour you need to remember to negotiate your pay with your employer before you step in the door.
So starting at a shipper takes about an hour to hook up your freight so that's extra 39$ then the stop extra 39$ the term is called stop pay, so that's two stops you made= 80$ more less. Now if your doing local runs its better to go hourly because your not running long hauls and making more frequently stops. It's all about who's offering the best bang for your time in my opinion. I believe we all should be making 2500$ a week bringing home 1700 gross but that's just me.