NOT HAPPY! Is this as good as it gets?

[Rawlco]

OK, so I get this really awesome job that pays 35 for long haul, over 400 miles, and 40 for short, under 400. Now I find out that almost all my runs are just over 400, but almost always less than 500 miles. And, they add the dead head miles to the run, so if I thought it was under 400, it suddenly becomes over 400 and pays 35 anyhow.
So a typical run looks like this:
day 1: 4 to 9 hours to load, drive 200 miles.
day 2: drive 200 miles, spend day unloading.
day 3: dead head for 2 hours, spend day loading.
day 4: drive 450 miles, wait for shipper to open.
day 5: unload, drive 3 hours to shipper.
day 6: drive 500 miles, go home.
TOTAL: 1600 miles: $560, about 10 hours detention: $160. and $60 for tarping.
Oh, yeah, just to make it more fun, it's mostly Northeast traffic and PA mountains. I'm not getting those easy Midwest miles.
Is this the norm, or should I be looking for a better job?

Well with TMC I have come up with fewer miles for a week, also in the northeast involving two buchanan NY wallboard loads, a Lowes Westfield run, Something short out of Owens Corning in Kearny NJ, and something else short that I can't remember at the moment, totalling a whopping 1508 dispatched miles incluting deadhead bounce, but with the percentage pay plan I earned over $900 that week. It really sucked that I was 650 miles from the house Friday morning and it felt like work doing that in one day after goofing off all week.

[ChikinTrucka]

our guys start at 52 cents/mile,

Up there in the Great White North you need all the $$ you can get for oil for heat. Ha Ha LOL.... I prefer the warm climate, if it means less $$ I'll live with it. I do agree with the idea of being paid for everything. For detention, I get paid by the hour after the first 2 hours. Just recently I was asking myself, "why don't I get paid for the first two hours? And for fueling? And by the hour for tarping? I'm working for the company all that time." I accepted it as a company standard. But now that I hear others do get paid for all that stuff, I'm going to have to rethink my acceptable employment standards. Thanks.
Riff Raff.