Percentage pay...

You can get 30-35%as company driver with benefits. Why would you go 1099 and have to pay everything yourself?

 

That depends on so many things it isn't even answerable.

 

What Loudone says is true. So if you gotta pay all bennies from your pay as a 1099 driver, Id say youll need at 5 to 7 percent more than youd accept as a company driver on a w-2 job. Maybe 10. In my humble opinion, the 2 ways to go are W-2 company driver or owner operator. 1099 jobs seldom seem totally on the up an up.

 

% is probably the shadiest way of paying somebody in the trucking biz. You get a % of what? You don't know what that load really paid. I tried to stay away from % my whole career. 1st trucking job, was SUPPOSED to be 29% ( of the trucking charge) Once, the boss foolishly told me to "pick up a check for the trucking". After I did some math, I was really getting more like 22%. When confronted, he stammered about it, and I quit shortly after. Mileage too, stayed away from that, although, mileage is pretty cut and dry. You roll X amount of miles, and get paid accordingly. Not many by the hour OTR jobs, so I stayed local and got paid by the hour. It's the only way I'd ever drive a truck. Just watch out with %.

 

There is dicussion in another thread where 1 company is considering paying everyone a salary, same every week no matter how much you do. Does that appeal or seem to be more fair?

 

30% of 0=0

 

Oh, the bean counters are getting sharp. I don't know where to start about paying a truck driver salary. Can you imagine the person that would say, "sounds good". It's clearly NOT a salary type of job, except in very rare cases.

 

And salary jobs you end up carrying the dead wood.
One size does NOT fit all.
I spent an entire career pushing idiots up the ladder ahead of me to get
them out of my way to the top.