Indian River

You also wouldn't be required to drive with a trainer for 60 hours, or whatever it is, if you came to Indian River with 1 year experience.

 

Cool, nice.

 

Thanks for the info.
In your experience during the times that you mentioned having to pick up a pump load has any of those loads become a percentage pay instead of cpm?

I would like to ask Redtwin and Tanker_82 in their own personal experience as none pump drivers. When has a particular load assignment become a percentage pay and are they profitable?

Note: If a driver picks up a load going from point A to point B and for some reason has to drop the load at one of your terminals not being able to make the delivery...Does it become from that moment a percentage load assignment?

 

Percentage pay can be very profitable, but it depends. We get the same 24% regardless, but some loads pay more (to the company) than others.

Just as an example of percentage loads that I do from time to time. They are almost always to a regular customer.

122 miles paid $256
76 miles paid $222
105 miles paid $348

As you can see there isn't a direct correlation between miles and what it pays, because of the different rates charged to or negotiated with different customers. The above customers are not constant, as in, they are not available every week.

There is only one customer that I know of in the NE that has enough loads every week that are percentage, but there is a set number of drivers assigned to that customer. I won't touch any of those loads unless they are short handed and fall behind.

I've never received percentage doing a T Call or load swap on the road even though I have T Called many loads within the 250 mile distance. I suspect that you only get percentage if that is the norm for that load. They don't break up a mileage load giving one driver percentage and the other miles.

The only time you will see a variance with a T Call load is if you run the "shag" portion. Basically, you pick it up at the terminal and only take it the final 50 or 60 miles to the customer. In those instances I have gotten hourly pay and unloading pay, not CPM or percentage.

There is also a downside to percentage though. You don't get the per diem tax break on those loads as our per diem is calculated on paid CPM and percentage loads don't pay by the mile.

 

Everything they said applies to pump loads too. I've also never even had a load that paid percentage at all, let alone a pump load.

 

Thank you all!
Great info given on IRT from all of you.
Greatly appreciated.

 

Hey, I heard you guys are sitting a lot lately, is it true? Where I'm at, we have so much loads that we do a load per day, usually. I wouldn’t mind it much if I was still getting miles, and making money. BTW, I'm at the Love on Exit 102 Cordel, Georgia, and I'm wondering which one was there first, The IRT terminal or this Love, nice Love btw.