Mileage or Percentage…?

if it were me I would go mileage until I understood how the company works and the places you go, You get paid all your miles on mileage. You opt for % then find yourself deadheading a lot your losing money

 

This is exactly what I was thinking these companies that offer one or the other I think play the game. If your on mileage pay you're going to have fewer empty miles. If your own percentage you can bet your rear end you are going to be the one chosen to deadhead who knows how many miles and be paid absolutely nothing. So when you have driven 200 miles to pick up a load that pays you 25% then you figure in those empty miles with your loaded miles do the math and tell me how much you made including the 200 miles you drove for free. If you have a driver that is on mileage pay Park right next to you and there is a load that has a considerable amount of empty miles to it and you are on percentage you can bet your rear you will be the one dispatched on it.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it

 

Percentage really shines on those really short runs. Like from Galveston to Houston or Houston to Beaumont. Or Chicago to Gary. The runs under a hundred miles. The company will charge a flat rate of usually a grand or better for short runs. You can make bank!

The other thing is, if you have a specialty trailer going to a dead zone, there will be all kinds of reposition and detention fees built in that a mileage driver never sees. And suddenly a bad load becomes obscene with stupid money.

Thing is, you have to be able to have a say in what load gets pulled as the stupid money loads will be few and far between.

 

I can tell you from personal experience that TMC, at one time, would lie about how much a load grossed. There were 4 of us empty at the same customer. And 3 of us were offered the same run. It was a crap run and none of us took it. But the gross went up by $200 with each driver called. I guess they didn't realize we were parked next to each other BSing. That was years ago. And maybe they've changed their ways. I don't know. Just throwing it out there.

 

I'm on percentage running line haul, when I was running in one of the specialized devision I was paid by the mile. I lost money and wen't back to line haul and percentage. I will say this..... It's my opinion, based on years of service with them. Watching my pay go up and down do to their forced dispatching, you will make only what they let you make.

 

As Chinatown has mentioned TMC has several threads here.....,.Read them!

 

It sure seems like it.

 

you stand no chance of winning the game when your brand new
and don't know the rules and the tricks
this applies to almost everything in life
including % or mileage
leasing or company etc

 

You won't win the game, but you will sure play it no matter how long you are here.