CPM or gross %?

Would you rather choose 75 cpm practical miles or 30% of gross?
what YOU have to ask the person who is PAYING YOU, do you get paid empty/deadhead miles if you choose CPM...and if not, then you have to ask, if YOU get paid any sort of miles when deadheading getting paid by gross...

otherwise, you know the old saying..??

you haul for ZERO, you get ZERO......

all those dead headed miles for ZIP...

and you'll usually only get paid for loaded miles.....when getting paid gross of the LOAD.

and no load...?

then you'll get 30% of NOTHING......

and also, no guarantee you'll ever know how much the load is paying, only what you ARE TOLD it is paying.

good luck, sounds like a 1099 job, am i right..???

then put aside LOTS of money for taxes.
 
You will NEVER know the exact gross paid to the trucking company that broke off a crumb... er load for you to haul. It could be a 10,000 dollar coast to coast haul but don't you believe a percentage of say 2000 dollars for that haul is what you will be told and paid on 2000. Not 10,000. You will never know what the load REALLY paid.

CPM is obsolete. No wheels turning, no money making.

Even if you did get a load you might be paid under say House Hold Guide meaning zip code to zip code. You could lose hundreds of miles off the bat. Poof never paid.

What I like best is salary. Pay me 3000.00 a week as a company driver and no matter what the truck does that week. 20 miles or 20000 miles. Anything else is feast and famine. And BS the drivers and owner operators.
 
You will NEVER know the exact gross paid to the trucking company that broke off a crumb... er load for you to haul. It could be a 10,000 dollar coast to coast haul but don't you believe a percentage of say 2000 dollars for that haul is what you will be told and paid on 2000. Not 10,000. You will never know what the load REALLY paid.

CPM is obsolete. No wheels turning, no money making.

Even if you did get a load you might be paid under say House Hold Guide meaning zip code to zip code. You could lose hundreds of miles off the bat. Poof never paid.

What I like best is salary. Pay me 3000.00 a week as a company driver and no matter what the truck does that week. 20 miles or 20000 miles. Anything else is feast and famine. And BS the drivers and owner operators.
that is why, in my last years of driving, i sought out dedicated jobs. i could base my spending/savings on guaranteed money each week.

the more i worked faster (not harder) the more i earned, as my nights of work would go from 10 hours, down to (on average) 8.5

then make a few extra dollars by doing one extra quick drop off, which took (usually) no more than 1.5 hours, for $100.
 
Work hourly only. Cuts out all the gimmicks, and strings attached to mileage or percentage...
Ive done hourly at the concrete trucking tanker or mix. I was told that I would at that time be paid 8.00 city fathers maxed out at 12.65 some dollars hourly and so on. Now that minimum wage in Arkansas is 11.00 soon to be I think 12.oo in 2022 the concrete place is offering 16.00 a hour flat entry. Obviously people with senority will be paid closer to 20.

I did ok with it. But learned some hard lessons in that work. Not doing that again. Half the work is morning, get the yardage out of the plant ASAP. All the people crying for concrete for the jobs.

5 hours later just after noon, we lay around the office riding the hell out of that clock waiting on a dab of yard here or there maybe. All the way to 5 PM. Staying awake in that situation was worse than waiting in say a OTR tractor where you can pass the time in the cab or sleeper.

Not to mention the politics. It leaves a stain on everything.
 
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