48cpm for company drivers? What's the catch?

Nobody at COTC makes .35cpm. Not as a base, not period.


But stick to your mileage pay that you might or might not get.

Here’s what I got in a month, with 2 34s and going through the house twice running 48... BEFORE the so called gimmick pay, insurance, and accessorial pays



I’ve been there a month and don’t have their system down yet, so pardon my weak mileage...



And here’s what I got for simply not getting any service failures...



I don’t need a recruiting bonus to make me talk up this company. If you’re happy where you’re at, that’s great. Glad for you. The OP asked about certain cpm and I explained that there are companies who not only pay that, but they guarantee a minimum amount of miles and pay the balance if for ANY reason you don’t hit it. And I ran those miles with minimal flatbed experience, with over a year gap since I had last secured or tarped a load... with all of my bad box/reefer habits to burn my 14. Do with the info what you wish. Hate on it if you want to. When it comes to trucker stories I never call ######## on them unless it’s regarding pay. I’ve never been afraid to post a pay stub to verify any claim I have made and tell people exactly how I did it. Just like people thought I was ############ about grossing 1800 as a company dedicated driver at Swift. Was nothing but crickets when I posted the stubs.

 

I was home for 4 days and 3 resets this month. Still ran 12k

 

So you averaged 4000 miles a week pulling a flatbed? What are you doing, drop and hooks?

 

No, I averaged 3000 a week. I’ve never uncoupled from the trailer. If we go to a customer when that customer wastes our time, even if they are our biggest customer, we won’t keep hauling for them. The company is a well oiled, efficient machine. They dispatch loads with planners who know how to plan loads to the minute and leave no time for sight seeing. You have to keep your door shut and run. A guy ran 16,500 last month. This company can plan you so that you’ll run 3500 miles a week very easily. That ain’t anything but 500 miles a day.

 

If you were home for 4 days and then did three 34-hour restart at home that's more than a week, which leaves you 3 weeks on the road. 12000 miles for that month averages to 4000 miles a week. That's what you wrote. 16500 miles in a month averages to 532 miles every day for 31 days. That's not counting time spent at other activities
I find this all to be quite unbelievable. Sounds like a recruiter fantasy.

 

Right,possible only in a perfect world.Plus with flatbed they don't do too many night time deliveries me thinks.
And they do it on elogs too!
Yeah,right!

 

Yes, I have hear that phrase around here quite often. I just tend to disagree. The more an employer pads the base pay with BS bonuses, sliding scale, detention, layover, dock bumps, trailer weight bonuses, referrals, breakdown pay, trailer shags, trailer clean outs, trailer spots, driver unloads, or any other BS that he should be pay for in the the first place, the more likely the driver is going to get screwed out of that pay and be stuck with the crapy base.

Sure there are exceptions. Lot, of food service gigs are more straight up players in the piece work pay game. But give me hourly wage; If you try to cheat me on that I will go right to Labor and Industries and get the money I earned from you. Try to explain these BS bonus schemes to the desk jockey at Labor that works on a salary, and hasn't had an hourly wage since she was working the register at Burger King.

 

I can respect that you prefer a simple pay method. All things being equal, I would too. But some folks don't mind dealing with some extra complexity if it looks like it can make them more money.

 

I haven’t done any night time deliveries or pickups. The latest I’ve delivered is like 17:30 and I pick up a load tomorrow at 16:00.

Pretty much every day I’m out here, I run 600+. The best I’ve done in this truck is 706. But hell, they shot me a load today that has a 639 mile deadhead to pick up in Oklahoma and deliver in Las Vegas. That’ll do wonders for the fuel bonus.

This will be the longest I’ve sat mid pay period since I’ve been here. But to answer the question no.. I’m not averaging 4000 miles a week. I’m averaging 3000... including weeks I go home for a couple of days. If we have a load that goes through the house, we go to the house. Always loaded when on home time. I don’t have to worry about a good load leaving the house.

 

If you go with an LTL company you'll get .62-.72 cpm plus $25-$28 per hour while you're dropping and hooking, and you'll be home every day. Can't beat it.