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Paid by the hour to drive a truck?
>transportation as an owner opp is like farming,we aren't
>here for the hourly wage,if we were ,we would all be driving
>union company trucks
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I'd like to know how you customized your avatar image. How'd you pull it from a server url, and got it to work with that animated gif?
As for the payment schemes, well, let's just say I've seen and been paid in just about every concievable way there is. How should I start...
Mayflower: 65% percentage split of "gross revenue" What constitutes "gross", who knows without looking at the actual freight bill..."just *trust me*", or ask to see the paperwork and you can start looking for another job...
Walpole: paid on a Ton/Mile basis pulling a 53' van. This one paid different amounts based on the weight of the load, which was (hold your noses everybody) solid waste to the landfill in Okeechobee. If the trailer was packed down full to the top with light cardboard and paper materials, the same run paid less than if the paper was soaking wet (more weight). Go figure.
Jack Hood Transportation: paid on a flat rate per trip, which worked out to about $20/hour. Drove 33K GVW CDL-B straight trucks, pulled 28' pups, and a 53' van for the Miami haul. Wall Strret Journal.
Robbins Lumber: Flatbed- company driver pulling a 48' flatbed of lumber for $14/hr with overtime. Worked the usual 10-12 hour days.
Hauled local air freight P/D for a daily flat rate around here as an O.O. contractor. Problem with that is the original estimate of daily hours was "slightly" off. Instead of the usual 8 or so with an occasional 10, it became a standard 10-12 hour day with a few bumping up higher than than. Those people were cutting it awfully close to the 11/15 rule. New rules have dropped the total on duty and riving down to 14 nowadays. That was the time I'm taking anyone's word for a flat rate per day estimate.
Civilian Motor Vehicle Operator WG-5 Overseas in Europe for the US Government, 92nd Trans Co, V Corps, driving in Germany and Holland: $6.50/hour (1976-1978)
Then the usual pennnies per mile, and on a graduated scale of More the miles, the less pennies per mile. Surprised to see that this scam is still lurking around these days.
Then with my own delivery business, a flat rate charged to the customer for a pickup to delivery; regardless of the traffic conditions which may slow the trip from a 3 hour delivery into a 6-7-8 hour trip. As a business owner - there
Those guys who haul local union LTL stuff around here DO make between $16-$22 per hour, each and every minute, with overtime I believe. They work about 50 hour weeks, hump a lot of freight, but rake in some good decent cash and get home every day. Averitt, UPS, SouthEastern, just to name a few. Like you said, they are all company drivers; some union.
O.O.'s have to work on a flat rate or percentage per trip payment method, but that doesn't mean mandatory waiting time unless you run out of hours. (that's when the second set of log books come out...)
Might apply for one of those jobs if they'd take in an old man with bifocals...
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