What is an acceptable rate (cpm) for a New Driver?

Check you history fellas. Trucking companies closed after deregulation not opened. Trucking consolidated to the mega-crap companies that control the freight today.

 

Imagine a screw-off driver paid by the hour and how much that could cost the truck owner. Now imagine having a few thousand of those same types of drivers screwing you over every day.

Starts to snow flurry or get a little windy and 10% of your drivers hit you up for hourly pay while they watch porn.

 

It's exceeded 100k now, their was a YouTube video posted on here a couple weeks ago who stated that in orientation he was told "they have lease drivers pulling in nearly a million a year"

Smh

 

NO!!! Lol

Aren't you supposed to be doing your "free work" right now?

 

Yup ... Just image all the hourly drivers going 55 mph and looking for traffic to tie them up for an hour or two... Instead of being motivated to get there sooner than later and plan/route around traffic... lol

 

And that makes sites like TTR very valuable for those wishing to educate themselves about the industry they are entering.

TV commercials are full of get rich quick programs and the miracle pill/diet.

We can not protect anyone from themselves.

"Buyer Beware"
"If it sounds too good..."
"Wolf in sheeps clothing"
"Sucker born every minute"

Any other sayings from your grandparents apply?

 

Not saying there is no place for hourly pay in trucking because there is in some places. But the notion that the industry at large is going to change to another pay model (hourly) and all drivers are going to see their gross pay go up (and carriers are going to actively make their profits vanish by signing on to this idea) is almost laughable. They would just jigger the numbers where driver payroll would DECLINE! They're not stupid or suicidal.

 

Nope... The companies that couldn't or didn't know how to compete closed. Many companies and OO flourished and are now big companies.

Look at a company like Knight, US Xpress, or the one I drive for... (Boy, that's the only time those three companies are in the same sentence...lol) ... All started as small family owned businesses... A few trucks... And a few brothers ... And a few loads.... And grew... All after DeReg.... {shrug}

 

One of the reasons railroad is cheaper, their is a idiot truck driver on the other other end willing to do the work for the railroad of delivering that freight for CPM. All the economic externaties (look it up) can be reaped by the railroad when the work is done by the truck driver for CPM. Truck driver does most of the work in the intermodal system, he should get most the pay.

Intermodal, rail roads do no exist without the truck driver.

Trucking business that manage their drivers and customers will prosper. Those that don't will fail. Time wasted in logistics will become a commodity and efficiency in the transportation will increase. Office micro-management will again be a detriment to a company. Office incompetency will no longer be taken for granted. The inefficiencies in trucking are in the office and pay by the hour will reduce those inefficiencies .

The cost of supervision is already high in trucking do to the proliferation of turnover and micro-management. Pay by the hour will reduce both since it will make office staff responsible for their decisions.

Pay for the driver will increase since a prospective new driver will have a datum for which to compare wages when entering the field. If a trucking company has to offer a hourly wage to a prospect, that prospect has something to compare that wage too. Now a newbie is lead to believe he will get all the freight he can handle at said CPM; a recruiter can come up with any figure to lead a prospective driver to believe what the wage would be. Of course most of us know that figure will be a greatly exaggerated lie.

 

And we all believed it cause it was... On the net.