tractor Drivers pay

[targuard86]

How are E unit drivers being paid? Are they making the same 60/40 split or is their a different standard for E units?

I'm talking about expedited drivers, not regular OTR drivers.

 

[tavrin]

fedx pays 58 % but i dot take anything under 1.50 right now but you sit alot alot!!! any there offer a lot of cheap cheap freight flat rate makes 1.16 plus surcharge on all miles adds up to about 1.50 all miles was nice when they would send you to a center that was busy but now they leave you where u droped solo take the 58% if you going to sit the load you take can pay 2.00 all miles or u sit and make 1.50 they run teams are around you alot

 

[targuard86]

I'm asking what the drivers make (what the fleet owner pays the person driving), not what the truck makes.

 

[2millionplus]

When I was at Con-Way, owners were paying T/T drivers totally different than the others. Some would do a straight mileage rate, some percentage and yet others a floating pay rate, that being depended on the load.

At CWNO they did not just bid on expedited for tractors, in order to keep the wheels moving, if they could not get you expedited then they loaded you with brokered, and backhaul freight.

So, the best pay rate for a tractor, is whatever you agree to with the owner. As with any other deal, whatever is equitable for both parties, is the best deal regardless what the rest of the industry is doing.

2millionplus

"The Old Man"