Never drive for a company that starts you out below .40 cents a mile!

Been with this company for 8 months. When i first got hired on i couldnt do better. Then when january 1st hit my record "became clean" and now i am free to go to a lot of places. But i have all endorsements and want to pull tanker. The companies i am looking at want at least a year, so...

 

40 cents per mile minimum. However a higher CPM isn't a guarantee of higher pay. They can always shoot for a lower mile per week for their drivers. For example they can say 50 cpm and only give you 2000 miles a week. End of the year 40 cpm and the 50 cpm could gross the same amount for the year. Only difference is one worked harder to get there.
Too many things go into it between 40 and 46 cpm. Better benefits, extra pay, the running lanes, home time, equipment, the customers you have to go to. I'll take a few cents one way or the other depending on which one fits me better.
The only segment that gets really hurt are the new drivers who need training. They only way they can change starting pay is by refusal to become a truck driver. Big enough shortages they will have to up the starting pay to incite new people in.
If you read the forums or know anything about the trucking industry. Some will always come into the industry no matter how horrible it is to start in this business.

"I've had a dream since I was in the womb to become a knight of the highway and blah,blah,blah....."

 

Its not the cpm you should look for in most cases it the yearly pay the average driver makes in a year working there. But like I said between like companies who's driver make the same per year the only difference is the lower cpm drivers will just work harder to match it. I could pay you 50 cpm but if you're yearly income is no higher than the 40 cpm driver have you actually gained anything as far as getting more per mile?

 

Agreed.

The problem isn't always the lease or the company. It's the lease driver. Some people have no business running a business.

I wish most companies didn't have an "open door" policy with leases. Either run company for 6 months to a year and qualify to lease, or come in with previous lease experience.

I think the avoid fleece deal saying should be changed to avoid companies that push leases on you.

 

Where is jabber when you need him to throw some more fuel on the fire?