Here's something out of a TransAm recruiting brochure:

If you drive 2,800 miles per week with TransAm at 30 cpm you would make $46,234 yearly with stop pay and bonuses.

Compare that to company B paying 34 cpm and you drive 2,350 miles per week . With stop pay and bonuses you would make $43,738 yearly. "Trucking company B pays you 6% less a year."

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Pan camera to newb recruit reading brochure ....

"Ah ha!", says newb (as light turns on in his brain).
As long as a recruiting brochure says I will get more miles, I can work for a lot less pay and make a lot more money.
Why didn't I think of this sooner!?

 

Sort of like saying if you work 40 hours a week at company A for $20/hour, you'll make $800.

But if you work 60 hours at our company at $15/hour, you'll make $900... :lol:

 

What they are trying to tell you is that you can make more at a lower cpm with more miles than with fewer miles at a higher cpm.

To an extent that is true, and many drivers feel that if they have to be away from home for a week or two or more at a time they might as well be running down the road instead of sitting in a truckstop bored and waiting for a load.

 

True driving for something is better than sitting for nothing.

But ...... Unless a company guarantees miles, which would basically make you salaried, don't you think this is a spurious claim to put in a recruiting brochure??

Unless TransAm is having some kind of driver shortage, how are you going to average 2800 miles per week???

Here's another quote out of their brochure.

"TransAm Trucking pays the highest gross annual pay in our industry. Period."

OK newbs you heard it here first. Quit searching for companies and get over to TransAm.

 

Wanna drive my truck? I'm offering $0.10 per mile. :wink:

 

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