Getting paid by CPM? You really think so?
Hi. Long time being away from the board, but with a new possible job being just around the corner for me, I got to thinking about the pay.
Now the company told me I would be paid .35 /mile. But would that be HHG? Or Practical Miles? Or even, HUB Miles? I don't know. What I do know is that I will be paid the miles on the contract. What does that mean? It's really simple. The shipping company have talked to company A, and came up with a price to ship to company B. Within that price is a certain percentage allowed for drivers pay for the entire load. The shipping company then takes that driver pay amount, and divide IT by the pay the driver gets, and gets the number of miles paid. Not the miles driven, the amount of miles paid. Sometimes, you can get the company to increase the amount. Not always. You can try, but most good companies will already be given what the total amount for driver pay adds up too......Not JBH, but good companies.:p So as I embark with this knowledge, I know that I will be driving for contracted miles, and any little bits I can squeeze out of them. For this is the way it really works. If you are new to truck driving, and wondering why you are driving more than what you are being paid, I hope this helps you out. One last thing...this is figured on full loads. Partial loads of course pay less to the shipping company....at least, I think so. Any comments? During my last edit, I had to correct an error pointed out by stewie!!!! |
The shipping company then takes that driver pay amount, and divide is by the pay the driver gets, and gets the number of miles paid.
i'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. It doesn't make sense could you clarify your position? |
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IF you actually read his post, you would see there is either a run on sentence or an incomplete thought. The wording of some of his sentences are confusing.
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Always someone in a crowd who thinks they are special. Special ed, maybe. So stewey1982 knows how to calculate drivers pay. I bet he thinks it miles x rate = drivers pay. And that might be the case for dear ole stewey, who main concern as a truck driver is proper grammer. But not all drivers understand why they are driving 800 miles, and only getting paid for 650. This post is mearly a po truck driver with poor grammer trying to make sense of this... So PLEASE stewey...clear it up for me....be sure to use proper grammer in the process, or I just won't get it. |
There's people with poor grammar and people that don't know how to convey their thoughts into speech that the rest of the public can understand. There's no reason to get mad at everyone else because of your misgivings.
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This does make sense, although one should bear in mind that sometimes, there IS a method to the mileage madness. I've been pulling for one customer for over four years and the mileage that my company pays me for any given city-to-city trip (We're paid by HHG miles) has stayed the same, for better or for worse. As for full load versus partial load, we make the same per mile regardless. Then again, it is rare for us to have a truly empty wagon.
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Who cares if he's an ex-cop? I don't. I've never had any issues with cops or the DOT, but then again, I don't do things that would make them my enemy, either.
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Wow, I didn't know it was so easy to offend a person on a message board. If you would remove your emotion and engage your brain you would know I was clarifying to another poster why I asked you
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As far as getting worked up for you hyjacking my thread for garbage such as whether my sentences are coherent, your comments are just plain rude. As far as the ex-cop thing, I have found thru personal experience that cops with stupid attitudes tend to screw over the common, including truck drivers. However, they keep that illgotten attitude all the until they quit, or get fired. Then, still in the mindset that they were once a cop, they think they are still owed. What? Have no clue what they think they are owed. So when you combined the "ex-cop" with the "grammer police", even you can see where tensions might come up. Hince, personal attacks. So when you go out to hyjack threads, expect the original poster to get irate. However, if you have anything to post on driver's pay, as the post started out to deal with, feel free to leave your comments so others can learn by them. |
Thank you for the opportunity to mend the fence.
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I don't have a problem with 99% of cops or DOT. Just that 1%, and most are ex-cops, or soon will be thru their own doings. The most problems that I have gotten are from ex-cops who have quit because they couldn't hack it, but still pretend they are wearing a badge. |
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HHG miles are calculated from zip code to zip code. Their is inherently a certain percentage of miles that are not paid to the driver, and account for the disparity between actual odometer miles driven and miles the company pays the driver. For example, it is about 275 miles from Dallas, TX to San Antonio TX, but since the company pays HHG miles it may only pay 250 miles because that is what HHG guide says the distance between zipcode A and zipcode B. HHG calculates from the center of zip code "A" to center of zipcode "B".
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Thanks for the answer Stewey1982, I found this website that goes into a very in-depth explanation of this method of calculating miles. Its called driver1st.com. It looks like a training school.
Practical Miles –VS – Rand McNally Household Goods Mileage Guide 19 - (HHG) Definition on HHG: Household Goods Mileage Guide 19 rules established by the American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA). Truck driver definition “I don’t get paid for 10% of the miles I run” Practical Miles – Practical Mile Routing: Based on actual routing, point to point (this is not a straight line, again it is actual routing). Truck driver definition “I get paid for the miles I run” What does this mean to an owner/operator? Assumption: HHG miles will be calculate at 91% of actual miles. Practical Miles will be calculated at 99% of actual miles. |
You know, what's funny is that the job that was going to hire me didn't, so I got hired to haul frac sand.:confused:
I get a percentage of the load, 25% to be precise, so milage pay really isn't a concern. Still very good information for new drivers.:o |
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