Martin Transport...65 cpm all lies

To top it all off.
Got a 2020 Pete 579 with 1100 miles on it.

 

They started you off with a new Pete? Nice. Originally Marten wasn’t going to buy anymore but I guess Paccar caved in and decided to put automatic transmissions in them.
I was upgraded a couple of months ago to a new 2019 Freightliner with 18 miles on the clock. 2 months (and 24,000 miles later),it’s still going strong.

 

Yeah, Yeah? Well I got gleaming fiber-glass, a stylishly sloping hood and the full body Shakes-A-Lot massage system in MY truck!

 

Oh, you've got one of them re- branded Volvo's?

 

I worked for Martin several years ago and at that time they were a great company. Randy Martin was a personable guy who wore blue jeans and a leather jacket. There was no stiff shirts and suits, the office in Mondovi was a comfortable place to go. Everyone was friendly and helpful. Then I bought a dog and could no longer drive for them since dogs were not allowed oncompany trucks. I knew that when I bought the dog. I had no problem with payroll a d was paid for mini trips beyond my expectations. Health insurance was great. If I had an emergency and needed off time, no problem. Sometimes these boards have people on them who get mad and want to gripe. What they say about a company may ruin it for others who may have done well there had they not read negative remarks by a disgruntled driver. Be careful drivers and don’t believe all the negative stories. Check out the company for yourselves.

 

That makes no sense, they’d ask if they were getting paid by the burger flip. But they don’t, they get paid by the hour and guess what, they ask how much they’ll be getting paid per hour.

Terrible analogy.

 

.48 cpm in 1985 is the equivalent to 1.13 cpm in 2019. Weren't those guys running 3500+ per week back then? That's equivalent to $4k per week. That's more than what heart surgeons were making back then lol

 

Not a terrible analagy because the "$ per hour" has a standard and a meaning. CPM does not. Every company twists their CPM to include something else; bonus, safety, benefits, etc... so they can seem like the higher one. Hub Miles, Practical Miles, Zip to Zip Miles, Routed Miles vs Driven miles... It's all smoke and mirrors to make our pay as convoluted as possible. It's not an accident.

We are the only industry that gets paid like this. There used to be the XFL football league that paid like trucking does, but now its just trucking. Even "Pay per Performance" jobs like professional athletes have contracts and salaries.
CPM makes about as much sense as "Cents per Burger flipped". So many variables, but we compare CPM from Company X to Company Y like its apples to apples. When really, its like Apples to Steakums. This place has bigger burgers, this place has smaller burgers, but more customers. This place is only open for breakfast. This place serves only vegan burgers that smell weird. This place is in Times Square, this other place is in Schuyler, Nebraska. This company is reefer, this company is flatbed, this company has multistops, this company has single stop. This company makes you drive in Times Square, this company has to cruising I-80 across the central time zone.

CPM is the scam that we all buy into, fall for, and think we understand. Who gives a crap what you make per minute, when what really matters is what you make per year? They make it sound like all drivers are lazy POS's that would take advantage of being salaried... so unlike the entire rest of the country, only truck drivers can't be trusted to work hard for a salary? And things like the DAC would still exist. If you keep short changing your company with bad work ethic, pretty soon only the crappy companies will hire you.

 

In 1985, the unions hadn't quite all died yet by then. There were still a few hundred thousand Union Truckers...making great wages... unlike today, where there are less than 7,000 Union truckers.

Check out how much we were getting paid back in pre-1980, when the government still regulated trucker's pay and routes. (I'll help - in 1979, the AVG trucker made over $110,000 in today's dollars. Some drivers made well over $200,000 in today's dollars!)

For all of the griping here about government... Truckers were doing REALLY #### good when we were unionized and government regulated... We barely followed any rules about hours of service, there were no over-weight rules (til '85 I think) we all made what would be today 6 figure incomes - AFTER expenses/taxes, still 6 digits!
And since the lanes were regulated by the government, there was always freight and they couldn't cheat you on pay since that was regulated by law as well! (the Interstate Commerce Act)

You wanna talk good old days of trucking, they ended in 1980 with De-regulation.
There were 20,000 trucking companies in 1980.
There were 40,000 Trucking companies in 1990.
Today there are over 500,000 trucking companies in the US. Hyper-competition drives down freight rates, costing us our paychecks as everyone competes to underbid each other for the freight.
Great for all the 4-wheelers, bad for truckers.

 

Ouch did i get burned in 1989 my 1srt job victory express medway oh .18 amile