1. ThyArtIsBehemoth

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    Who pays 60 70 cpm?
     
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  3. x1Heavy

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    I don't know the answer to that question. Yet.

    But that is me expressing a strong opinion of what i am worth. If you are a motor carrier raking in 4.00 a mile on a cross country load ... .70 is not bad. You already are paying at least 1.20 a mile to the truck's upkeep, permits, taxes etc...

    I was paid #### near .50 or beyond that when expressed in salary as a trainer during 2001. We ran team that year in two companies, one FFE and the other contracted to McKesson of Memphis. JB was my last one after 9-11, that one paid me #### near .50 also They actually said that if I did not accept a orientation date I would stand to be paid .03 less because of a company wide restructure of pay scales at that time. I left the company after three weeks due to a known cabover issue that wiped out a car in St Louis one night. I told them over and over to get me a conventional. (North Little Rock's yard of JB at Prothro Junction off I-40 had about 50 conventionals nosed against the side hill by the shop on the far end unused... and they gave me a 84 international cabover to run...)

    They ended up calling me back for about three years and some months to hire back on at higher than .50 offered but I finally explained to them I was no longer DOT medically able to do it. It's not much of a company as companies go, but within that outfit contained people who were AWESOME. A powerful dispatcher who had decades of experience and a very strong safety minded supervisor who did not listen to me about those stupid cabovers. That dispatcher was worth the whole company itself. He was that good. One of about three I would pick to go into battle again. The rest can go to hell. (And some did... right there with me lol...)

    I advocate a salary based pay every week. The mileage pay is obselete and should be disposed of. Some weeks you got 1000 miles which is not enough to maintain your family adequately or yourself physically to be fit and strong for the next week when you are running 3000 miles. Salary is a fixed known cost to a company from top to bottom every week, every month year and so on. Drivers will not be so quick to quit if the salary is hefty enough, say 1800 gross, 1300 minimum net weekly. That way miles don't matter. (They do... to those who book loads... for you...)

    When you stand up pay roll for a entire fleet of drivers against say the fuel and tire bill each year, payroll comes in third or forth....
     
  4. Chinatown

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    That's true, but the $65K looks good. At least they're not exaggerating on the pay. Probably do have some drivers only making $45K because they don't want to run hard.
     
  5. ThyArtIsBehemoth

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    Anyone ever heard of A&M Logistics? They have an add out on Wyoming Trucking Jobs
     
  6. ThyArtIsBehemoth

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    Is Magnum still a decent company to run for if anyone knows?
     
  7. Chinatown

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    A few months ago Zimbabwe was discussing dumping their currency and switching to RMB. It was a serious discussion, but as far as I know they haven't done it yet.
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    Here's why!
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  8. x1Heavy

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    RMB?
    RMB? Renimini? aka Yuan? Chinese Money?

    One US dollar gets exhcanges to round 6.50 Yuan.

    It will be a good move for Zimbabwe. But China needs or requires Zimbabwe to have building up factories and industry to maintain a economy that is useful.

    China has been migrating or moving into Africa for a bit more than 10 years now. If not way longer than that. The old French Legion Base in what I recall as Djibouti

    Marines and Joint US Forces have or rents Camp Lemonier.

    I believe the Chinese recently held military exercises of some noteworthy achievements. I don't "Hate" them but fear what is possible for them because Africa would be quickly converted into a form of continental sweat shop working for .10 cents a hour equilivant and they would like it and thank their chinese overlords.

    I think America is also working on Africa as well. But I fear it's potential for screwups and lost lives. I don't understand why we would invest so much into a Continent not yet developed in some areas.
     
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    The USA will never succeed on the African continent because they meddle in internal affairs and have too many strings attached to anything they do. China has a strict policy of "no strings attached & no meddling in internal affairs."
     
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