What's a reasonable otr cpm for a brand new driver

No no no it's good.

 

That may be but have you ever heard of working your way through the ranks? Proving yourself? Even med school grads make comparative peanuts and work ungodly hours in the beginning. We're talking about trainee wages, not career wages. Two entirely different things.

If paying green drivers more money from the start guaranteed outstanding performance and incident-free work history, we'd all be making millions each year and driving with no worries of getting hit by another driver.

 

If we payed experienced drivers better we wouldn't need as many green ones, you can prove yourself without making peanuts. Take easy street if you want.

 

The government does the best they can to push out experienced drivers with methods such as more stringent DOT physicals and ELD mandates. These experienced drivers tend to be full of bad driving habits so our government is saving us.

 

Deadheading is traveling empty to the next customer. As a company driver, being paid cpm(most people), it is pretty standard to be paid for those miles.

 

7 years in now I've only worked for 2 companies but both paid empty miles.

First company paid the same empty/loaded. Basic training company pay your dues policy.

The private fleet I'm with now pays a base rate empty/loaded and then has add on accessoral pay ( D/H, customer unload, additional out of scope work etc ) that bumps my loaded miles by about .15-20/ mile on loaded miles over the base rate.

This is a good pay structure because the shorter trips pay way more than the longer ones. Some of the shorter trips can pay .60 to over $1 a mile. Takes the sting out of getting stuck on a shorter trip.

 

Um, I repsectfully disagree. The mandates have nothing to do with safety, and more with control. I will take a driver with 10 yrs experience who has used paper logs, knows how to trip plan without a gps, prefers a mechanical motor to a paperweight soot breathing machine, can use ingeniuity to fix a problem, etc. over someone who sends a breakdown message for a low tire, has three gps on the dash, can't scale a trailer and expects their hand to be held. I know which one is safer in my opinion, regardless of their increased chance of sleep apnea neck size, I'm tired because I haven't had a 30 minute break that I never needed before, should have entered my BOL on my elog because we know that saves lives, govt BS. Rant ended.

 

If entry level pay was higher we may attract better quality people to do this job!

 

Yuppie not going to make more than $12/hr if not in management. Most of those jobs are minimum wage. That's why your see so many teenagers and retired people working at Home Depot, Menards and Lowe's. Most of the factory jobs aligns here start between 9 and 11 an hour because they are now using temp services.