When do I get to see .70 a mile OTR?

CDL A Tanker Driver OTR 100k annually - Houston, TX 77091 - Indeed.com

1099 pay. They were so close.
@Chinatown

 

Something not mentioned. Going to a new otr company. You're going to start at the bottom of the pay scale. Then with raises. You're pay will increase. So that.62 eventually will become that .70.

 

I heard of one company named alynevych. They have a cool decal. Nice Volvo truck. The pictures on the website.

 

As rates come down things will get interesting .....I don't think any company can survive long if more than 30% of revenue is spent on labor .....if you are making 90k plus benefits and other expenses on the labor side that truck would have to avg over 330k a year. Read any mega carriers quarterly numbers and you would know historically that will never hapen.

 

Mileage pay is a scam, find something hourly

 

It’s funny, I see people say that quite often, but now Schneider is actually moving to hourly pay for most drivers and all I see in Schneider groups is complaints. And they don’t even have the full details yet. I don’t really care which it is, what matters is what you gross each week for the amount of work you do. Both methods can pay well or not.

 

It really dosent matter how they claim to figure pay on it will always be a certain percentage of the total revenue ....only difference is on private fleets where the trucks don't have to turn a profit just not impact the companies core business

 

My cousin did mail haul at the end of his career. It was hourly pay. But they basically paid on whatever the route was. They figured 10 hours round trip, all in, fueling + blah. If it took you 10.5 hours, you got 10. If it took 12 hours, you got 10.

Never does it take 9.75 hours.

 

Not necessarily. Some companies pay *all* drivers the same wage, bonus, and benefits package, giving them all the same opportunity to make a living or make bank. Ours all get the same, but the annual salaries range from $58k - $98k, based upon how much (or little) they want to work, how good they are at managing their logs, etc.

I remember hearing this said before: "No matter how much I pay my drivers, the average salary never seems to change. Drivers make what they need to make... if they need more, they drive more. If I pay them more, then they drive less again. Productivity declines, because the higher pay allows it to decline."

Don't ask me who said it, because I can't remember.

There is actually some truth to that. No excuse to underpay, but also no real incentive to raise pay by a large amount.

 

I was .60 running NE(FYI NY and NJ are easier than Atlanta) for 2 years after being OTR for years, and am now 25 an hour SE and am only out 111 hours total a week, but in Atlanta traffic non stop.. My very first job in the industry was LTL linehaul making less than I am now, with seniority and union..

My dumb(?) strategy is get a good rate OTR and finish paying off my house which is worth 250k more than I paid for it, and retire to a low tax backwoods place

When I first started I use to see small fleet advertisements w2 company .70 - .82 OTR at truck stops; never noted names, though; was offered dollar a mile 1099 a year ago but by a shifty owner running financed junk trucks

Trying to avoid LTL and Walmart, and don't like the risk of full owner operator running whatever a new CSA can get

Edit to add: I left LTL because it became a nightmare at the terminals and pension would be gone by the time I hit 63.. Most LTL terminals just have people that act like trash