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03-26-2009, 04:23 PM
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Your Opinion On This Payscale?
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Just wanted to see what other drivers thought of this pay scale. Would you drive for those rates, willingly? I will keep my opinion to myself for the time being.Specifically would like to know what you folks think about getting paid less the farther you go, is this typically the way companies operate now.
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03-26-2009, 04:31 PM
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Alot of companies pay this way. As you know the short haul freight pays way better than long haul. That's why the pay scale is set up that way.
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03-26-2009, 04:39 PM
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I don't have a fundamental objection with a progressive pay scale. However, that one has too much of a spread from low-to-high. Twenty-anything CPM would not be acceptable to me personally. Not sure how low I'd go...it would depend on other perks, hometime, and the other various factors we all consider. But it wouldn't be as low as shown here.
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03-26-2009, 05:46 PM
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I don't have a problem with a progressive or regressive scale, depending on your point of view. When I was hired, Swift had a progressive scale based on years of experience. Within 2 - 3 years they raised it twice and I didn't have any problem with that. The most recent "raise" was to add higher, lower mileage scales and I don't have any problem with that. I have read, on here I think, of companies that have lowered rates for higher mileage trips. I would not have liked to seen that even though, constructively, Swift has done the same thing.
That looks like the C. R. England scale. If you add predominately reefer freight and all that goes with it, I don't like their scale. If you look a little closer, the pay rate for a relay load is the same as the rate for the original load . . you may only haul it for 250 miles out of 1500, let's say, and sit on it while it gets unloaded then only be paid at the original lower, higher mileage rate.
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Yeah, sliding scales like that are fairly common. It always gets my goat when the companies that do that advertise their highest rates though. Back when CRE went to the sliding scale, they had big advertisements saying that they paid $1.50 per mile. What they failed to mention is that 99% of their freight would not fall under that pay, and it took some digging on their website to figure that out.
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Would I work for that exact pay structure, no.
Do I have an issue with a sliding pay scale. No.
As mentioned, many companies, in one form or another, often pay more for short loads. Some do it pay paying a higher cpm while others do it paying a flat extra rate.
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Yeah, sliding scales like that are fairly common. It always gets my goat when the companies that do that advertise their highest rates though. Back when CRE went to the sliding scale, they had big advertisements saying that they paid $1.50 per mile. What they failed to mention is that 99% of their freight would not fall under that pay, and it took some digging on their website to figure that out.
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Still waiting to hear back from them. That would probably be a step up, lol.
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You going to do one of those lease purchase deals and get a new truck since yours is all worn out and used up? I hear its a sweet deal.
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