Martin Transport...65 cpm all lies

You vastly underestimate me, my friend!

 

Since eld's were mandated,seems like shippers are charging for late appointments and paying for detention.
My first month..was really held up only once for 12 hours, and was paid $250.
Most dock time was 2 hours or less.
Unheard of for reefer freight.

 

Its all a trick because there is no standard for what CPM actually is.

Hub miles? Routed Miles? Driven Miles? Empty? Loaded? Does it include bonus? Does that avg CPM include detention & Layover?

Companies can say whatever they want for CPM. And drivers keep falling for it, every single time. Hell, Walmart is running ads for company drivers paying .97 CPM. But then you dig into it, and find out that includes all compensation, including health insurance, vacation pay, etc...and its really the same old .45-.55 as everyone else.

If a company offers you .46 or .48 cpm - maybe you should listen to them. At least you know they aren't lying to you by trying to inflate their numbers.

Actually - just Forget CPM. Bust our your W2/1099 and see what you grossed last year. Then ask the company what you can expect to gross with them.

Quit falling for the CPM charade. Even McDonald's employees don't ask "How much do I get per burger flipped?"

 

That’s because their employees have been flipping out more on the customers than they’ve been flipping the burgers!!lol

 

Huh. It's almost like the free market and capitalism screws over the guy on the bottom. The Greedy business owner with no government oversight just gets to lie to truckers, and keep all the money while paying the workers slave wages.

Now flip over to the "Thickskin" forum and take a look at these same drivers. Government is BAD! Private companies are the best!
Weird... how many people here preach how great our economic system is, while getting railed by it.

Wasn't the downfall of trucking wages literally called "The De-regulation"?

Just something to think about next time you want to parrot your favorite AM radio personality.

 

From BusinessInsider.com

 

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From my perspective, the free market and current economic situation is significantly driving up wages on the LTL side. Since June of 2017, I’ve received about 15% in pay raises (4 raises). This year I should make $70,000, and that is based on just 45 hours per week.

Now, I touch 100% of the freight, something many truck drivers don’t want to do. The wages have significantly come down (my Dad made 30 cpm with McLean in 1985 before they went under) mostly due to cheap freight. McLean was paying drivers well but went under mostly due to bad financial decisions (obviously). What hurt them is how often they’d take cheap freight even though it was at a loss just to keep the business rolling with steady work. They dug themselves a hole, and they couldn’t compete with the bottom feeders who paid their drivers crap.

It’s all about supply and demand. The demand for good drivers is currently there, so that is why wages have finally crept up in the last 5 years. But when the economy turns to crap, wages stagnate from the influx of new drivers (like 2007-2012ish).

Everyone wants to put all the blame on one single thing (like Capitalism). But, it’s a mixture of reasons. One being trucking companies squeezing every dollar. Another being our disastrous trade policies. And also it is partially on us, the drivers, for accepting insufficient wages.

When I started in 2010, Roehl paid me 30 cpm, and I averaged grossing $750-$800 which I didn’t mind because I was new. But, anyone with a year experience today should not be making any less than $1,000 per week OTR (some would argue no less than $1,200-$1,300). But if you can, screw that OTR crap and get on with an LTL. Even the lowest paying LTLs beat the far majority of OTR companies.

 

Consistent checks the first month.
$1500 a week.
Not bad for reefer.

 

For most companies, it's "practical miles".
If a company is attempting to fold your vacation or health insurance into the figure, that would be misleading but that is not usual.

Some people are very resistant to this observation - I have got amazingly angry replies for pointing it out - but wages are rising. I am glad to see it.