what is the highest CPM pay you have seen

Are those rookie drivers? Or do they require a minimum experience length of time? Also, how many miles are typically involved with their dispatches?

I've seen companies paying more for less miles to attract drivers. Some claim .57 per mile, for example, but you may be struggling for 1200 miles a week, in which case someone making .29 a mile could potentially make more.

Right now I'm running teams on Swift, so we get the good ol .34 a mile rate. I think when I started running solo I was making .26 a mile.

 

apparently, you work for an ltl company, they tend to pay higher, union or not. i'm a line driver for an ltl company (my terminal is non-union) and make .5632 cpm. that's a pretty big jump from the .37 i was making otr. took me 2 years to get to full scale.

 

They'd better be smart and putting some of that money in savings because more and more union workers are losing their jobs .
The highest wage I have seen was back in the early 90's . I was working for a mover supply company that had 6 drivers . We mostly worked a 5 day week and were on the 60 hours in 7 days rule . They kept having drivers go slightly over the 60 . To remedy this they decided to go to paying per mile with stop pay . They averaged all the drivers' hours and miles and came up with $.42 a mile . That was great pay back then . Most drivers' pay per week stayed about the same . Mine increased over $200 a week . A driver that had been dogging it and most frequently going over 60 hours saw his pay drop over $100 a week . The extra unnecessary hours he gained from previously brought the average pay up for the rest of us but bit him . People like that are why carriers will never pay OTR drivers hourly .

 

Pay per mile can be a deceptive way of making someone thank that you are making big bucks driving a truck. Case in point, union car haulers would say that they received a dollar a mile but failed to tell you that was only if you were loaded both ways, other wise it was only .50 cents per mile. They also failed to inform others that if they were at the bottom of the board that they would only get, maybe, one turn a week and loaded only one way while the top ten percent of the drivers were making big bucks while your starving to death at the bottom.

Pay per mile may be only 50 to 70 percent of your pay if you are receiving drop/hook pay, layover pay, stop pay or any other add on to your mileage pay.

So pay per mile may not indicate how much money you gross per week, month or year. Your gross pay per year, hours worked or away from home to achieve this money,cost of insurance, dues, profit sharing, 401k match, equipment and the condition of your work environment will show if you have a good job or not.

 

I make .67 p/m on average. Now let me explain. I make a base of .37 pm, + stop pay + pickup pay++++ etc..... If i take my gross income divided by the miles i drive i am making .67 p/m and run plenty of miles. Some people wouldn't see it this way but i do. Either way thats what it comes out to and it is good money.

 

The highest the guys make at my company is 48 cents/mile Cdn. (approx 37 cents/mile US) unless they are an owner/operator. It doesn't seem like much compared to others I talk to, but I get 11,000 to 13,000 miles every month unless I ask for some time off. The longest I've ever had to wait after unloading to find out where I'm going next has been 3 hours and that was only once. All this is done with home time every weekend. (sometimes saturday/monday off instead, etc.). I have a decent health plan with them that I don't pay a dime for, and a fuel bonus if I average over 7mpg, and the boss has thrown me some cash for fixing the truck myself while on the road instead of taking it to the shop. I'm happy.

There's a company in my town that advertises that owner/operators make an average of over 2 dollars/mile doing flatbed work. I'm not sure how many miles they run though.

 

Hmm... I get stop pay and such as well. I may need to average this out again and see what mine comes out to. I didn't think about that.

 

Until the last company I worked for went out of business 8 years ago, we were getting $0.40 cpm (hub), $20 layover per nite out, $20 per stop, $25 per hour for unloading/sitting at shipper and some other pay.

I'm at $0.45 per mile (book) now for all dispatched miles (loaded/empty).