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USA Truck needs a drug intervention....

the_original_beantown

The other Shane
....because you're smoking crack with these rates. Absolute insult to owner operators. This was posted today.

DL-A Owner Operator Truck Driver Opportunities Offer:
New Owner Operator Pay for 2020
Want to earn up to 67% of load revenue or $1.08/mile? You can with new Owner Operator pay at USA Truck! Connect with us today to learn how your commitment to safety leads to higher earnings for your CDL-A business.
$1,500 transition/down payment assistance
Fantastic freight options w/load boards to keep you full
Self-dispatch – you know how to work
Plenty of miles
Fuel discounts
No forced dispatch
Free E-ZPass
Complimentary lumpers
Referral bonuses
 
....because you're smoking crack with these rates. Absolute insult to owner operators. This was posted today.

DL-A Owner Operator Truck Driver Opportunities Offer:
New Owner Operator Pay for 2020
Want to earn up to 67% of load revenue or $1.08/mile? You can with new Owner Operator pay at USA Truck! Connect with us today to learn how your commitment to safety leads to higher earnings for your CDL-A business.
$1,500 transition/down payment assistance
Fantastic freight options w/load boards to keep you full
Self-dispatch – you know how to work
Plenty of miles
Fuel discounts
No forced dispatch
Free E-ZPass
Complimentary lumpers
Referral bonuses
Maybe if you get five or so referral bonuses a day it pays well? Kind of like a pyramid scheme company.
 
I would run all the numbers before passing judgement.

Free ez pass could be golden if you are running in a high toll area.

What are the cargo and insurance rates you have been quoted? Some are quoted upwards of near $30k per year, depending where they live. Divide that out and see what it costs per mile.

Would I do it? No. Much rather run under my own authority. That said, they are in line with many other companies that lease on trucks.

In the past couple months, you might have made better with this scenario than pulling your own dry van trailer.

I think, before the virus, rates were averaging around $1.75 nationally for a dry van. Add in empty miles, that number drops.

Their rate, including FSC, would have had you in the neighborhood of $1.40. Factor in all the things you no longer have to pay for, the hours you no longer have to spend running your own business 100%, you aren’t too far separated in numbers.

The difference would come in your ability to negotiate rates and keeping yourself in the best paying lanes, both of which you no longer have to worry about.
 
Red Classic is a little better.
I have a Red Classic Driver not far from me. I'll see if I can pick his brain and see what he thinks of them.
CHOOSE WHICH COMPENSATION PLAN FITS YOU:
Earn 70% of line haul revenue + 100% FSC
Standard pay: $1.15/mile + FSC

CDL-A Owner Operator Truck Driver Jobs Offer:
New Pay Package: Earn $200,000+/yr
$1,500 Transition Incentive
2,500 miles/wk guaranteed
100% no touch freight and 80% Drop and Hook
Home weekly
$3,500 Referral Bonus
No-touch freight
EZ PASS
Bulk Fuel
Southeast and Midwest Running Area / No Northeastern freight
 
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Has to be the 4396824906824349672946749th time this video has been posted, LOL
...and the 4396824906824349672946749th time it has been mischaracterized. I saw the original post of this video on FB, and the original comments by the person who shot it - a CDL driver. The dude panicked. That's the totality of it. There's a wide spot at the point where the video was shot. She (the videographer and CDL driver) tried to talk him into backing the truck to that area, but he got in the truck and freaked out.
 

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