Is this good pay for a newbie driver..?

If you have less than 3 months experience and all your loads are more than 300 miles then your rate is around .25 CPM. Baised off you pay stub Im guessing you did about 2100 miles in the pay period. Thats right around what I got out of school in 2005

http://swift.drivers-central.com/swift-transportation/driver-pay.cfm

 

That totally sucks even for a new driver.

 

.25 per mile and they find folks who drive for them? It seems we fought the Civil War for no reason at all.

 

I sorry, I must be reading the rates wrong. It looks like after 5 years you can make up to 40 cents per mile. My first job only paid 45 cents per mile. I have been guilty for too long of having made fun of the Swifties out there. If you people don't strike then I would say you should all start parking in the handicapped spots.

Don't you get angry with your low wages?

 

OP pay sounds kinda low, however if i may make a suggestion STOP TAKING ADVANCES

 

ok figured it out 1100 mile he is making .28 CPM not horrible but right on par for a newbie. give it 1 year there OP and you can do MUCH better. not sure on how you have your rig set up but done right you can live on 25-40/wk OTR

 

Just putting this out there. If you drive say 400 mi/day @ .35 cpm for 5 days. Can you still do that? That's $700.00 before taxes + overhead (food, ect.) expenses. Not much left for a rainy day not to mention benefits or god forbid you want to retire before your 112. It just doedn't seem to pencil out for the driver. If you don't get hurt, crash, burn out or just plain wear out what's left at the end of the road for all your hard miles?

 

Actually, 1100 miles at .28 cpm is $308.00. His gross mileage pay is 528.92. If hes making .28, his mileage would be 1889.

 

Quit and go to CR England.

Lease. Train. Drive. Team.

You'll be rolling in dough. Ignore the haters because they're just jelly.