Company Driver Pay Chart

The chart doesn't go high enough. lol

Are you running otr and saying anytime you aren't at home is work?
Or you talking about a local hourly type gig?

 

Are you thinking that you can drive 70 hours per week?

 

Good chart, comparing mileage pay to hourly.

For the last four years I have been on percentage. I like that much better. If a load pays more to the owner, then I get more. Then the question you need to ask is, "What is the average revenue to the truck per week and what is my cut?" It's simple.

 

Then he wouldn’t use the chart the op made for people who were considering mileage pay positions.

 

I'm just curious why you would show a 70 hr week? Who wants to work that much? I would think 50 would be a good example.

 

That's for Sissies !

 

Nice job on the chart, but once you get above 3,000 miles or 40 hrs per week it's all speculation, a maybe, a possibility.
I've worked an 84 hr week with overtime after 40 hrs, (7x12), but I didn't do that every week, and I've driven nearly 6000 miles in one week, but not every week.
Pay checks were impressive, but not average, which is what needs to be established when dealing with pay rates.

Back in the old days, today too I imagine, If you were an O/O buying a new truck to work at a company that pays mileage, your financing would likely be based on the revenue from 2500 to 3000 miles per week, or and average of 10k to 12k per month.
Same goes for OTR company drivers, you could realistically expect to drive an average of 10,000 to 12,000 miles per month for nearly any efficiently run trucking company.
This was all based on the reality of a truck cruising at 65 mph, (the golden number), and knowing that the truck would average approx 50 mph at the end of the day, taking into consideration traffic, fuel stops and tire checks.

So back in the day if you were running a 60 hr/wk log book, which many did back then, you were safe to log a maximum of 500 miles for 10 hrs driven, or 3000 miles per week, (60 hrs x 50 mph), without suspicion of cheating or questioning from the authorities.
(had to redo 6 months of logs one time in triplicate, not fun)

Unlike today, those of us who were flat decking or doing our own loading and P/U's and deliveries were able to get away with logging that time as off duty, unless we were being paid for it.

 

Sissies are home every night. Some weeks lately I'm lucky to get 40 a week. I don't need to haul the cheap crap they are offering. I have even managed to keep the grass mowed on time this year.