General Pay Structures For Company Drivers

Most Company Driver are paid on a Cent Per Mile "cpm" basis This is common in the industry. The company driver paid cpm on all miles loaded, or dead head, Dead head miles generally refer to miles driven to the load, any other miles driven other than with a load or to a load are considered empty miles and are only paid to the driver if the company offers the driver to move the truck. Some drivers are paid on the miles from a delivery to their resident town, You can negotiate this before you arrive.

If the market is strong enough and if they want you to drive for them you can make sure they put everything in writing, don't just settle for an "Oh yeah we pay all our drivers on their miles home. Ask them before you go in for an orientation if they would be willing to put it in writing.

In fact it's best to make all the agreements you can before you get there for orientation you write them down and having your recruiter confirm it with the operations manager, once you get there they kinda feel like they can resist you a little bit if you didn't get the agreement before you got there. If you get any agreements with the recruiter on the phone make sure you write it down and have him or her write it also. When you get there the last thing you need to be doing is trying to get something more than everyone else is getting; the idea is get it before you ever walk through the door. If the market is strong enough you can do it just that way, only if you know what to ask for upfront in the first place.

Leverage the market for all it's worth, if you're working with a recruiter, get as much as you can out of your recruiter and make sure they do all the work upfront; make sure they "sure up the" deal with management "before" you get there, not when you walk in the door and ask them about it. Check out the book Demand Strategies for other "Demands" you should make in negotiating your best deal.

Some company drivers are paid a percentage, usually I hear in the neighborhood of 35 to 45 percent. The company driver is usually paid on the percentage that the load pays. This is always a little harder to figure because the driver usually only knows what the owner or the company tell them. Percentage can still be rather effectively used at a company where the Driver receives all the load information on QUALCOMM and knows how much the load will pay even before the owner knows. These are cases where the owner has leased the truck on with a company and even in some cases allowed the company to manage the driver.

Another way a Driver may be paid is a higher cents per mile on his loaded miles and no pay on the dead head and empty miles.General Pay Structures Operating Authority

Here's how even new company drivers can be a high income earner in trucking also.

This little secret is why I suggest, "Don't even get in trucking until you read this book"! Don't even "get in trucking" without knowing all of what's in this book! And even if you are in trucking there's still so much to learn. I promise you you'll be so glad you did.

Finally I'll mention the Demand Strategy of the Turbo Charged Company Driver spoken of in detail in the chapter of the eBook Making the market work for you on every level. Briefly This pay method is: The company driver agrees with a trucking owner/company to split what ever amount over the base price the truck has to run on if the driver finds the load for the truck. For example, If the truck needs to run on a 1.50cpm and the driver finds a load for 2.00cpm that's 50cpm over the base needed price for the truck, the driver will then get and extra .25 cpm over his base running rate and the owner will get .25 cpm over the base rate needed for the truck or in this case 1.75cpm. There's a few other very important and I must say the word secret, I just have to say it, because what I'll show you that goes along with making this process work even most Independent Truckers running their own Authority don't know, but not only will you know it you'll be able to capitalize on it even more than the owners.

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Pay Structures For The Company Driver Lease Operator Operating Authority

General Company Driver Pay

Here's how even new company drivers can be a high income earner in trucking also.