So what does a load really pay?

Nope wieght means nothing right place right time a single pallet can pay more than a truckload

 

Depends. Some steel contracts are by weight (or were?) But it may be a flat haul rate your company has.

 

Many are. I have one account that pays minimum of 40,000 lbs, no matter how much it weighs, but more as the weight goes above 40,000. For example, the last load I have been paid paid $2.85 per 100 weight or $1,289 for a 45,000 lb coil 370 miles.

 

that sounds like pretty good pay .

 

So what does it pay? I don't know those lanes but up here it'd be 1500 or so. Maybe higher

 

That's a 300 mile run. You say you aren't getting squat. How little do you consider squat, and are you able to get back loads or are you dead heading back?

 

Are you 50% dead head?

 

You'd be hard pressed to know what your employer is getting for the run if you're mileage paid. This another way percentage pay is better. You'd have a legal right to know exactly what they get paid then.