During your first year with Stevens Transport, how many States did you drive through?

I'll get you all the miles you want.. .05 cpm and a ton of miles, can run 7,000+ a week if you want. I'm telling you, you'll be rich in no time!

 

well that was a perfectly pointless post

 

Not as pointless as accepting less money for more miles lol

 

It is NOT about miles or pay per mile, but what do you put in your pocket each week, and do you and the company fit together.

 

still a wannabe I see... if you ever actually get into the business, and then if you manage to hang on at least a year, both of which statistically are a long shot, it will make more sense to you

 

If I make $1,000 a week running 3000 miles or $1,000 running 300 miles. I'm taking the the $1,000 for 300 miles. It certainly is about CPM and miles ran, Unless you're hourly.

 

I've done much harder things in life, I'll do just fine.

 

no company driver, or beginning driver makes 1,000 in 300 miles. Living in a fantasy world....

the real world has some hard lessons for you.

 

Don't listen to this guy. Look for that golden opportunity. We get paid by the hour where I am and we are union. I make like 1200 a week for running about 200 miles a day. The rest of the time is spent loading, unloading, getting the tanker washed out, pre trip and post trip. I only had like a year experience when I got on here.

 

I didn't say you wouldn't... This is not a hard job, I said statistically it is a long shot. The fact is less than 10% of those who start truck driving school will still be driving a year later. Many reasons for it, for some its the time away from family, for some its the low wages (The median income for truck drivers in 2012 was 38,200) for some it is just loneliness, for some it is health reasons, Some are just not cut out for this kind of work. So statistically, the odds are a long shot...

Now if you do last, you will start to understand it is the pay check that matters, not the CPM. CPM is a part of the equation, but not the whole equation.


If I gave you 2500 miles at $.35, or 3000 at .$32, which would you take? Me I am taking the 3000 all day long, more miles at a lower CPM, pays $960, higher CPM and Lower miles pays $875 in this scenario. Which is a better load to take, the 2500 mile 6 day run or the two day 1000 mile run? Sometimes A, sometimes B.

I see guys all day that are making a higher CPM but sitting in truck stops waiting on loads. I keep rolling, a little over $1800 in the first two weeks of this year, that includes 4 days at the yard, so really only 10 days, and this is the slow time of the year for us, but let's extrapolate that over say 48 weeks, taking four weeks off, and that is a little over $43K, so more than over half of the truck drivers in America are making. I assure you I made more than that last year, as I said, this is our slow time, my miles have actually dropped a bit, but are picking back up now.

Things are not always as simple as they look on the surface.