I am currently getting 27% of the loads i pull and my dispatcher gets us GREAT paying loads, My boss promised me when i started that the Least i would make is .36/mile and In the past month i have made anywhere from .36 to .90/mile on the loads i have hauled. heres the breakdown from this last load i pulled.


Load pay$1850 x .27
Driver $499.50 / 1200 Hubmiles
= .42/mile

I am makeing about $2000/week depending on how many loads i get in a week ( Friday to Friday)
I like This setup Considering i was makeing .26/mile with my last Company

 

You will nearly always do better working on percentage rather than mileage. 8)

 

Percentage is fine, as long as you don't have to run 400-500 miles empty...

I'll stay with mileage pay from now on. At least then I don't end up working for free.

 

I run 4-500 miles empty all the time. You need to evaluate if your % is enough to generously compensate the deadhead. I think the mileage pay always finds a way to shortchange the driver, IMO.

 

Depends on what you're hauling-Good paying Freight or cheap freight.

 

my % pay is includeing deadhead miles. we run hubmiles so i figure it all intogether.

 

I got into that percentage trap when I was with W&L about ten years ago. We'd haul new furniture out of North Carolina and then usually haul boxed beef back to the east coast. The furniture loads paid great, but then it wouldn't be unusual to get empty in west Texas and then have to deadhead all the way to Kansas or even Iowa to pick up a load of beef. On top of that, the waits to get loaded at some of the beef houses could be murderous. Y'all might think I'm kidding, but I once sat for three days waiting to get loaded at National Beef in Liberal, Kansas. I just couldn't hang with that. I wound up moving over to KLLM and back to the mileage pay.

 

Percentage is the way to go. Ya gotta look at the big picture if you make more money even though you sat around for three days who cares? Myself if they told me it was going to be more than 4 hours I'd give them my number to call me when their ready :lol:

 

Yep, I did just that. The first day of waiting was at home. Then they called on Friday afternoon and told me my load would be ready that night and to head on up to Liberal. Well, as it turns out, my load wasn't ready until Monday afternoon. Nothing against any of you folks who might live in Liberal, but that wasn't my idea of a fun weekend. The biggest problem seemed to be that National Carriers got loaded first before they even started on any of the other companies' trucks. And hey, I'm not really knocking the percentage thing. I've known drivers who swore by it. I just had a bad experience with it based on this one company. The other problem with them is that some of those new furniture loads might have anywhere from six to ten drops on them and you'd waste a lot of time that way too. I might give the percentage option another shot sometime in the future.

 

If you can't make money on percentage, then you are with the wrong company. I have worked both mileage and percentage. I have never made as much on mileage as I have percentage. 8)