Is My Math Correct or Am I Missing Something???

What company is paying .25 a mile?

What you and all the others are not getting is it comes down to the person accepting the terms. If guys stop working for .25 then they will have to raise the wages. It's supply and demand. Just because I advertise I'll pay $7 a hour to work for me doesn't mean you have to work for me does it? But you can't get mad at me for what YOU agree to work for.

They pay new guys that low wage to off set the cost of training them, and the damage to the trucks they will inevitably do (missed shifts, hitting stuff, driving like idiots etc.) not to mention the loss of revenue because a new guy isn't gonna be as efficient as a experienced guy at trip planning, loading, unloading, etc.

 

Wow .50 cents, you will be rich soon.

 

The OP company pays $.25cpm.

You see, I can read, add, and subtract.

Try that before delving into economic theory.

If you don't get it, these company lie about the terms. Others and I get it, and are only helping to make new guys like the OP understand.

 

JB Hunt and Schneider (and others) were paying .40 cents a mile in 1980. Now it is 2014, 34 years later and alot drivers are making less than they were then. But you can bet your very last breath the dispatchers and office workers and executives aren't making less than they did in 1980!! Oh no can't have that we have to pay them - but drivers? Naw we need to cut their pay, but office workers deserve a raise!

 

I agree drivers get screwed over. But we let them screw us. We are too spread out and you can't get two drivers to agree on the color of the sky on a cloudless day let alone something important like wages and benefits.

 

I see ads all the time for Schneider paying up to 32cpm for experience.

I see JB Hunt for ads for up to 38cpm for experience. So thank you for that point.

I also know a few drivers in the 80s and 90s that came away from 3 years of Schneider with their lease-purchased covered in 3years on a new truck. No ballon payment.

They all have learned to screw us better now.

 

Not the point. Simply informing you some companies pay for phone use.

 

a new guy CAN be efficient, are they? most no. My trainer stressed big time on trip planning and he forced me to use an atlas not the gps etc, every time it was my turn he would say "ok we are going here, now get your atlas out and tell me the route" But I have talked to people who didnt know crap after being trained, how to log if the QC went out, how to map bla bla. I was a fortunate one I guess, I dont need my atlas being dedicated these days but I know how to use one, heck a lot of drivers dont even own one and just rely on gps these days...

 

If the minimum wage goes up to 10.10 an hour (like it should) truck drivers will be even further down on the wage scale. The minimum wage goes up, dispatcher wages go up, office worker wages go up, trucking company executives get richer, but the truck driver gets the same old same old .32 cents a mile or whatever they were making in 1980! They are still going to be paying .32 or .35 cents a mile in the year 3000! lol

 

I'm curious about getting paid a percentage. Was that as a company driver? If so what is considered normal percentage for a company driver? I would think there's better pay in percentage than miles if you are hauling the right kind of freight.