25% good or not??

if it's percentage per load and you can get multiple loads while your out then yes it's decent pay.

 

IF i were to hire a driver, I would put him in a truck to start at 23%. After 90 days, bump to 23.5% 6 months, 24%, 9 months 24.5% and 12 months 25%.

Not a bad rate I don't think.

 

25% of what?

I have done it and been burned, not saying everyone is out to get us but get all on paper.

 

What MNDriver said is a good plan - as far as if it is good pay or not depends a lot on the loads and the distance involved. I have always paid drivers between 20-25% of the load. Had a few reefer loads that ran about 150 miles ( two drops ) and paid $650 - for the driver that was $162.50, if you were on mileage even at .50 / mile it would be $75.

On the longer runs the numbers should come out a little closer. In this way when the company has a good week, so do you - when the company doesn't then you still made the same .45 or.50 mile. Find out if the 25% includes the FSC or not - typically it shouldnt since you dont pay the fuel. Ask the company if they have any direct runs already the rates that are paid. More than likely you will come out even on some runs and a little more on the shorter ones.

 

Same here. I've been in situations where I never knew what the load actually paid, only what they told me. And too many empty miles can really bring down that average. Mileage or percentage, it really boils down to who you are working for.

 

When i was Driving for someone that own his truck, he was paying me 32 cents a mile. He was losing money with the company he leased (crst malone) he came back and told me that he was going to start paying me percentage. I told him you cant change the rules half way in the season! So that was it for me but i see a pattern where more and more truck owners are paying percentage. I wont go for %!

 

You'd be cryin'then after friday the work you would have done on mileage.

303 miles and 3 loads. 88 mile rounds.

There are times percentage makes sense. Playing the mileage game works for megas.

 

25% of what? How are you going to know what he is actually paid for the load?
Are there any benefits with the job? Vacation, insurance, etc?

I don't like working on percentage as an employed driver. I have worked 2-3 times this way, and never could really trust I was getting paid fairly...as well as they didn't want to pay deadhead miles, layover, etc.

 

I get paid 25%, and I'm averaging $1k / week. Although I do have an agreement that we don't haul for less than $2/mile and there's an $800/day minimum to the truck. I can accept less than that, but the owner won't force it on me. I also have right of refusal for any load, and have the freedom to book any load that I choose, as well as being able to get a load home any time that I need or want to. For loads involving lumpers, I have the option of unloading the truck myself and pocketing the lumper fees. I get copies of every rate confirmation so there's no question about what each load pays.