USX pay scale.... how does it work

Thanks Flood - here is a sample of his pay - looks like 11 cents per mile and 13.5 cents per diem - total mileage pay 24 cents??? for 616 miles?

Any insight before he calls payroll - Nice to see that your happy after 8 years with this company. Feel like we made the right decision, and I will be getting my CDL next month to team with him.

Empty Miles 106 @ . 11000 11.66
Loaded Miles 510 @ . 11000 56.10
P e r D i e m 616 @ . 13500 83.16_
Mileage Totals 616 67.76 83.16​

 

i know you lose a few cpm when you take per diem. thats why we don't for us it works out better for alot of reasons to take the der diem at the end of the year.

now with that said his pay AFTER the per diem pay cut should be (.31cpm - .02cpm to be on per diem) so for a 616 mile trip he should have made .29cpm, 13.5cpm per diem and 15.5cpm pay, he needs to call and ask why i got paid what he did, and BE NICE when he calls it will go much better, just ask why because "he doesn't understand how he was paid" they will walk he thru it so he understands it....

btw what you team with him you will split .48cpm for ALL miles, no sliding pay for teams, and just my advice but rethink the der diem thing

 

Spoke with hubby and he was wondering if it is because he was a student driver? To me 0 months experience IS a student!

Anyhow, he will call payroll tomorrow and nicely ask. And, why are u against perdiem? We really were confused about it - but decided the higher gross was best for us.

Thanks for the help - have a great day

 

Am I still confused about per diem?? I re-read your post and 31cpm without perdiem is paid??? With perdiem only 29cpm?? So if I dont want perdiem my gross salary goes up - then hubby is taking perdiem the way they pay is cpm is separated? - pay for example 29cpm = 13cpm perdiem and 15cpm pay??

 

dang were to start
the higher gross is only at best about $40 a week

now the downside
what if you don't run enough miles each and every day to make the per diem...? each and every day you are on the road (breakdown for a few day's = no per diem, 34 hr restarts = no per diem)
you take a .02cpm pay cut just to be on it....?
your taxable income (w-2) is much less (loan's come to mind) social security..? workman's comp...? alot of things are based on taxable income....
just a few of the reasons.

as a truck driver you can take the per diem write off at the end of the year for everyday you are on the road (leave at 1100 am is 1/2 day) it's $59 a day and you can be sitting for a week getting the truck fixed and still get the write off... yes you pay more in texes all year but at the end of the year you get the write off, last year mine was over $17,000 and as a team it was over $35,000

if you don't take the company per diem you will pay more in taxes but with the write off at the end of the year you will end up with MORE money in your pocket.

 

the pay listed is if you don't take the company per diem, to be on the company per diem you take a .02 pay cut so if you would make .31 but you are on per diem then you will get paid 13.5 NON tax per diem and 15.5 taxable for a total of .29 you net take home would be more but your taxable gross would be less

 

Thanks so much for clarifying things - he did NOT want perdiem for the reasons your stated - I guess payroll automatically did that!

Oh what do you think of the student status - could that be the reason lower cpm than the website says??

 

it may be the reason but he needs to call and find out, also if he want out of per diem he need to let them know (payroll)

 

He can opt out by using one of the MACs on his Driver Tech....forget which one and too tired to get out of bed and look...LOL.....tell him to just scroll down and he will find it.

 

Per diem can certainly be a confusing topic...and I think the companies like it that way. FWIW, OOIDA covers the subject fairly thoroughly in a couple of articles in Land Line Magazine. The most recent one from July of last year is quite good and supports FLOOD's asertion that its better to take it at the end of the year on your tax return. The article also explains some of the other ways that having the company incorporate per diem into the drivers compensation, rather than the driver waiting until taking it on his tax return, benefits the company more than it likely will most drivers. Another good OOIDA article that covers per diem can be found here.


If I recall correctly, USX deducts 2.5 cpm from whatever the posted cpm rate is for any particular trip. They make it easy to enroll in the program but one can only opt out of it four times a year, at the beginning of each calendar quarter. This means if your husband notified his FM today of his wish to opt out, it would not take effect until Jan 1st, 2012.

Good luck with your goal of teaming together. I think USX is hard to beat in that department, with the bonus $ for a team with Hazmat, .48 cpm for all miles and most likely a new truck as well. Really Sweet!!