whats the avg pay for company drivers?

I figured out my pay an hour I have put in with the 12 days I worked for one of them big time OTR companies. I gave them the benefit of the doubt in most cases. For 2 weeks of work I averaged $5.88 an hour. When I quit, they asked, "why are ya quitting!!" My pay was a little higher than most with my experince.

 

That's right!... Hard to make it driving a truck. When I was an owner op I had cheap payments and it costs $1.22 a mile to run that thing. If they didn't mention $2 a mile they knew I was going to the beer joint and wait for a better load.

 

On a related note, if a company advertises that they pay so-many cents per mile, is that normally just loaded miles or all dispatched miles? (I realize different companies may calculate it in different ways)

 

normally for company drivers its for all dispatched miles. Thats why you sit they dont want to pay to dead head you anywhere. them paying actual miles..well thats a different story all together

 

Probably still more than you`ll make on partial unemployment.I`d take percentage over mileage anyday,and take anhourly wage if I could use your scale.

 

Mover what agent are you running for?

 

25% of the load for me, and it works out to $12 -$15 per hour depending on the unloading time....and it still works out to be about $.30 per mile.

I ain't in this to make the big bucks...already did that for 30 years.

I would like to go out and buy a used truck with about 400,000 miles on it and be an o/o after I have a year of experience, but not sure I want to take all the risk to just make $20/hr. I only want to haul short hauls of 1,000 miles or less, or work local. Plus I will need health insurance for a few more years, so working hourly I can get that...not sure what an o/o does for health insurance.

 

i pay my 2 drivers 25% of payload but at $2mile average that comes up to .50cent a mile.....what area you live in?

 

I've seen many drivers get into IRS tax trouble because they don't have the sense to pay there taxes each quarter when working percentage and being responsible for paying their own taxes. Not saying percentage is a bad thing at all..just thinking out loud about it.