I was just wondering what's a good cpm rate I only done percentage or hourly jobs I see a lot of jobs offering around .50 a mile I been thinking about go otr again
I been hauling mostly flatbed and reefer for about a year and a half and I seen some job for hauling cattle and I thinking about calling them
Flatbed is over 50cpm plus tarping, load securement pay etc. It's been a few years since I've done reefer but I think it was 45-48cpm plus the inevitable detention pay. Both of these are with at least two years experience . No idea on the cattle hauling.
It will vary wildly. When I drove someone elses truck here, it was an even buck a mile on the road, round trip, hourly around town. I now have some health problems, so pay a swamper 500 a round, which equates to .50 a mile, round trip. His friend just got on running the same loads for a major carrier, and gets .52 a mile to drive, which seems cheap to me, but he is union, and I am sure his bennies are above that rate. Unless things have changed, anytime I drove a bullwagon, the pay was good, but you were also responsible for any crippled animals. I know things have changed, but when I ran a bullwagon, once loaded, we did not stop, not sure how they do it these days, teams maybe.
As far as Ive been seeing bullhaulers never stopped. Once the animals are on, straight to the meat plant. And how they rolled too. I always got out of their way because the governor was not that high as they were. Wages were close to .50 in 2001 when I stopped OTR. However you will find many being paid the same tired 0.34 that has been around decades. (Inflation creates a need for ever more dollars each week to maintain a lifestyle.) therefore .50 is not bad but on the low side today. Remember we don't have a driver shortage we have a wage shortage.
