Pay after training

Lets see now, a person just out of CDL school, should expect at least $1.50 a mile. Guaranteed 6000 miles a week. Home every night and weekends. $250.00 stop pay. $100.00 hr detention. Brand new Tractor each Monday morning. Anybody want to sign on???

 

Oh gee golly Mr.Trucking Company Guy I was really wanting a rainbow colored pony that spawns its own fresh scented butterflies too.

heh

 

Multi task driver, multi task.

 

I'm intrigued - who do you work for? That's the first time I've read someone that makes the same CPM as I do.

 

OK, so after 3 years with Stevens, you'd be at what I started on . . . 9 years ago.
And that's just a fact, I'm not being mean.

 

I don't take it as mean... CPM is certainly a part of the equation, not all though. I have been offered $.40 a mile, their drivers ave 1800 - 2000 miles per week. I prefer the 2800 - 3000 I get now. I would have been running regional, I prefer running all 48... to each their own.

I would be working in another profession if money was my main motivating factor. It is not. I hope you are happy with your place of employment. I am satisfied with mine for the time being.

 

There is a balance between ownership and employeeship that will never be even. Sometimes, it's all the way you look at things.
When you are the one with your testicles on the line for every deed, occurance of every employee...things you can not completely control, you look at things quite differently.
In a perfect world, you would reward the 'good' actions of an employee. But each employee will do things for different reasons, often not for the best interest of the company.
Let me give you an example: A buyer hires Stevens to pick up lettuce in CA and deliver it to Denver. Due to unusual cool weather, the lettuce didn't grow as fast as was expected, so the load is a day late being ready. The buyer isn't concerned about the details, he's only concerned that his retail customers have fresh lettuce on the shelves when they WANT it. Since the time from order to delivery is 8-12 days out, he's guessing the amount of lettuce needed and when it's needed.
So it's finally loaded on your truck and you begin heading east.
A traffic snarl from all the people heading to Vegas slows you down as you head north on the 15 and what was a day behind is now a day and ahalf. Finally, the load has to be repowered and the concern of Stevens is to keep that lettuce moving to keep their customer pleased (and ensure future business). But the driver doesn't want to be repowered into CA again. So he blows by the repower, takes his break in the canyon between Mesquite NV and St George UT where the phones don't work and the QC is sketchy at best.
Now we have a late load, an unhappy buyer (Stevens let us down!) and we lose 15 loads from this buyer to 'teach us' a lesson.
No...Stevens can't just pay a bunch of benefits such as 'California' pay, repower pay or whatever...the dicates of competition won't let them.
Now, the next 15 trucks in CA are sitting there an extra day or more because the expected loads that we directed trucks into CA a week earlier just aren't there.
Fifteen drivers are sitting around complaining about how they were 'screwed' by Stevens.
No, they were screwed by a selfish fellow driver.
But in the meantime, there is still overhead to pay, benefits to pay, permits to buy, licenses to cover....all from freight that didn't come due to a driver's unwillingness to give up a load.
I know there are lot's of arguements that can be made both ways, and many have valid points.
But my point here is that there are two sides to everything, and often we only see our side.
When a company fails to meet the customer needs and make a profit, it ceases to exist.
All the employees go off to another company. The ownership often loses what took many years to build and nurture.
It's not fun to be 60+ years old and start over...not at zero as some of us have...but further in the hole than most of us can imagine. A hole never to be climbed out in many cases.
Or let's look at this in another analogy:
My employees (when I had my company) use to come to me and ask for (demand?) more vacation time. I paid what I thought was fair. One week after one year, two weeks after two years and three weeks after 5 years service.
But they felt I 'owed' them more vacation so they could 'recover' from the stress of work.
My response always was: "So let me understand what you're asking...you want me to pay you to stay home and do nothing?"
No one really responded to that question.
but it's all a matter of perspective.

 

A car hauling outfit on Texas

 

Not very specific, but thanks.