The company that i'm starting with pays percentage. I have never worked percentage before and i was looking at the paper work and it says that i get paid my percentage after fuel, lumper fees, tolls, and a few other things. I'm wondering if that is the way companies pay percentage.For some reason i don't think that i'm going to last there to long. :smokin:

 

You gotta think positive Moriarity!

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Yeah, that sounds like your pay is going to be all over the place. Tolls and lumpers can kill your pay rate unless the company compensates for that in the rate they agree on. If they take a load thinking the tolls are going to be $50 and the lumper is going to be $100 and then when the trip is done the tolls are $100 because you had to take a certain route and go over a toll bridge and then the lumper charges $250 to unload the truck instead of $100 then your pay is going to be lower than what you thought. Lumper rates can be ridiculous. When I was at Marten a lumper might charge $75 to unload the truck. A similar load going somewhere else they would charge $350 to unload the trailer. Freakin' lumpers

 

When freight rates are low, you are better off getting CPM.

Depends on the company. If they haul allot of cheap freight... your average will suck... like maybe work out to about 25 CPM.
What did they offer you? 24%??

 

25%. i guess i'll see how things work out, I'm heading out tonight with a short 2 stop load. one stop in Middlesex New Jersey, and one in Mechanicsburg Pa.

 

When I was a company percentage driver I was always paid a percentage of the gross except the fuel surcharge, this was at sevearl different companies, you are getting hosed

 

I had a feeling i was getting screwed. I'll see what my pay checks look like, then i'll just find another job if i don't like things.

 

The last company I was with paid percentage. We, too, were paid a % of the actual load, not the fuel surcharge. It definitely wasn't paid after tolls, lumper, etc. Why should a company driver be responsible for 25% of the lumper, tolls, etc.

 

I know all too well about those lumpers.Can you imagine what they make a day.We pay them to unload their stuff.I think i'll go in the lumping business,LOL.Anyway I drove for an O/O for 3 months and he paid me 25%.But I did'nt have tolls or lumpers to deal with.I guess it averaged out to about the same as getting paid by the mile.If you have tolls,lumpers and all the other fun stuff that tk mentioned,I would deffinately do my homework on this.But you already have your first load so hopefully you won't get stiffed.Maybe ask some other drivers there if they're making good money.

 

When I worked for Commercial Carrier Corp back in 04 to 07 we got paid percentage of what the load paid, started out at 23% and capped at 26% I am sure they included all the overhead before they came up with our percentage however they never said upfront that was what they were doing they just said you get paid a percentge of the gross load . It was a local job and the most I ever made there was something like 36000, we did have driver who is a member of this board that grosed over 50k with them for a couple of years but he ran his ass off 6 days a week...
Good luck Freebirdrfd, remember the best time to find a job is when you already have one....

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