New Pay Program

eventually I do want to own not lease my own truck.

 

Hope that this works.

 

FR8, see if you can open that attachment.

 

From what I am reading, with all of those mt miles then this might be right up your alley.

 

Hey,it worked..I can see it,thx.....u want a hug now?

 

Nah, your hair is not long enough and no slant to your eyes.

 

Well with the load I ran yesterday 582 loaded( had dm change that from 543) and 188 miles(was 97 before trl search) comes out 100.00 better? Errrrr,is my math correct? I'm using the FSC they have in that chart on the proposal....

ocala fl,bobtail to achula fl for the mt,mt to Tampa then rainbow city al....via swift routing thru Atlanta .....

 

As far as I can figure, yep, you figured right. It was the empty miles that got you there. Now here is the down side to this if I read correct. You are sitting the yard in PHX and get a 1800 mile load, and you are on the new scale. Your FSC is only about .23

 

For the O/Os the new pay scam is a reduction in loaded mileage rate, nothing more, nothing less. Swift is trying to play smoke & mirrors with the increase in unloaded mileage rate.

Since my MT mileage rate hovers around 7% I'm not going near the new package.

 

Heck ... squeak, I don't how I got chosen. I was asked and I agreed to pilot the program. It give me the chance to play with it and I have the option of going back ... By the way sorry, when you asked me last week if I had heard anything about the new pay plan and I said no ... I was sworn to secrecy.

OK here's the first thing. You're right it is not a pay increase and I told them that up front. Basically predicted the furor that has unfolded. It's nothing more than a adjustment to the existing pay plan. You can chose either or. It's up to you to decide which plan you can best utilize to maximize your revenue.

But like everyone else I am disappointed that the o/o's did not get a tangible increase vis-a-vis the company drivers.

OK the plan does not impact the Command rates at all. That rate is negotiable with Command.

Now when I got the scale the first thing I did was go back and analyze my total loads through July ... My mt rate is about 6% including Command, but I was surprise to see my Swift was actually 8% ... On the new plan I would have been up $500 on Swift loads. And then I included all the DH loads and that brought in another $100.

First week, I ran 2800 miles in 2 Swift loads and only 95 mt and was down $57 on those loads. Total over the month I ran 8 loads and I opened up and paid less attention to the mt miles. I was experimenting. Overall I ended at 16% mt.

I try to manage my revenue to hit a minimum of $4000 on 3000 miles. Which is exactly where I wound up on the new pay plan. I can't really compare what I would have received on the old plan vs the new plan. Because quite frankly on the old plan I would not have given a second look at some the loads I took. That included a relocation that was offered to me when I delivered in OK on a Saturday and was told I would sit until Monday. Normally I would have told them to stuff the relocation and taken a reset. As it was I made $500 and stacked myself into a lucrative Command load.

Where I see the plan, is that it gives you some flexibility to look at loads you normally wouldn't and possibly increase your miles. At worst it appears to be a break even. At best, maybe a few hundred extra dollars a year ... It does cut the base loaded pay, but it sets an absolute minimum floor with the mt rate.

But is it a pay raise? - NO. And reading the welcome package they were very clear in not calling it a pay raise. Between the raises given the company driver and the statement to increase compensation in the investor report, I think we were all expecting something more tangible.