% pay or cpm?

the answer is : it depends ….


My neighbor is paid percentage .
He gets 20% of the gross to the truck .
Company he works for has RGNs and stepdecks , no vans .

Most weeks he runs more empty deadhead miles than loaded miles.
But he says he averages being paid 89 cents a mile for all miles .

I’ve seen him deadhead 2200 miles from Idaho to South Carolina and bring a load back to Boise .



it just all depends on what the load pays to start with .

they don’t use any brokers , they have direct customers .
They’ve had such bad experiences with brokers that they just refuse to use them at all

 

It depends on who is choosing the freight and who is negotiating the rates. It also depends on how much time is spent sitting in docks versus rolling miles.

I live on percentage. No one tells me what freight to take though. I have a minimum rpm and a minimum all in.

If I were to go back to being a company driver with someone else telling me what freight to carry I would prefer to get paid by the hour, not by the mile. Mileage pay is a straight up scam in my opinion.

 

Percentage can be a great rate of pay, when rates are up in the spot market. Does your company have dedicated customers you'd be hauling for or would you have to get all your loads from brokers off the trash load boards? Keep in mind if you are in a position to self dispatch yourself, load boards are what wallstreet is to investors basically. Come afternoon time, between 3-5p.m. or later in the day you are likely to find only trash loads that nobody else wanted. You'd have to be quick draw mcgraw on the load boards too when you do see a good rate posted as they usually do not sit on the board long. I've heard of some loads being taken within seconds of them being posted.