Scamp and Westcan

Discussion in 'Canadian Truckers Forum' started by Ahnutts!, Sep 23, 2012.

  1. Ahnutts!

    Ahnutts! Bobtail Member

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    Anyone tell me what these guys are paying? I see that Scamp is advertising a $3 per hour safety bonus, which sounds great except that they don't mention their base hourly rate. Just want to know if the grass is really greener.

    If my boss is reading this: You're just being paranoid, go play ball with your kids or something.

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  3. Onetrack

    Onetrack Light Load Member

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    A friend of mine works for Scamp, I'll ask him what the base rates are and get back to you.
    I know he's got a set run, 4 days on/4 days off.. and he's making quite a lot of money but he's been hauling 20 years and the last 8 have been with scamp pulling heli fuel.
     
  4. Pullin2

    Pullin2 Crusty Canuck

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    Now that was funny.
     
  5. Ahnutts!

    Ahnutts! Bobtail Member

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    Yeah, it sounds like they're a quality outfit and the blue trucks are aesthetically pleasing.
     
  6. Onetrack

    Onetrack Light Load Member

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    Here is his reply:

    all runs based on 25 an hour but with experience you can do a lot better and with the way we are paid double dips rates can go way up. lets say you pull a load to Revelstoke out of calgary get paid the whole load but you pop into Kamloops grab a load for Golden get paid full rate for that load to you end up making $600 for about 20 hours putting hourly rates at $30 then your 3 an hour on top of that plus full benefits
    RRSP matching contributions and profit sharing.
     
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  7. Ahnutts!

    Ahnutts! Bobtail Member

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    Interesting, if that was the industry standard we'd all be better off.
     
  8. rzl-dzl

    rzl-dzl Medium Load Member

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    what is the industry standard?
     
  9. Ahnutts!

    Ahnutts! Bobtail Member

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    $0.32 a mile and no benefits, same as in the nineties. Fuels a little better, $22 - $28 per hour.
     
  10. rzl-dzl

    rzl-dzl Medium Load Member

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    ya thats what i mean

    the pay quoted in this thread for super b fuel over the rock seems in line with the job.

    when i left the highway year and half ago, it was .40 (linehaul vans)
     
  11. Ahnutts!

    Ahnutts! Bobtail Member

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    I haven't done that sort of work in a while, but I saw in another thread a guy saying he was happy working for $0.32 a mile. My first job driving tractor trailer in the late nineties paid $0.34, hauling reefers to California for two bit outfit in Surrey. I figure I was making $8 or $9 an hour. At $0.40 per mile, if you drove for 10 hours per day and spent another hour doing everything else, and averaged 45 mph you'd be making $16.36 per hour. If you take OT into account you're making less. Mileage rates are designed to save trucking companies money. To make $25 an hour working on a mileage rate, I figure, you need to make about $0.66 per mile.
     
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