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Percentage or CPM — which actually pays you more?

Plug in your miles, your rate, and your lanes. See which pay structure puts more in your pocket on the runs you actually run.

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Your run

If they pay percentage

$
%

If they pay CPM

$

Weekly deductions

Same for both structures — leave at 0 to skip

$
$
$
$
$

Percentage

70% of $6,000

Per run$4,200
Per week$4,200

All-in per mile

$1.91

every mile, loaded and empty

CPM

$2.10 × 2,000 mi

Per run$4,200
Per week$4,200

All-in per mile

$1.91

every mile, loaded and empty

It's a wash — both structures pay about the same on these numbers.

Where it flips: percentage beats $2.10/mi once the load pays the carrier more than $3.00 per loaded mile ($6,000 on a 2,000-mile run). Below that, CPM wins.

Total miles per run2,200 mi
Miles you get paid for (CPM)2,000 mi
Total miles per week2,200 mi

You're driving 200unpaid miles a week. That's already priced into the all-in rate above — it's the number carriers leave out.

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Between the two of us, we've placed more than 50 box truck drivers and run dispatch on nothing but box trucks.

We've been on both ends of the same phone call a thousand times — a driver and a carrier burning 40 minutes only to find out the pay split, the dispatch model, or the equipment was never going to work.

The information that ends that call in 30 seconds is out there. Nobody puts it where a driver can actually see it. So we did — everything we know, written down, and the tools we wish drivers had, built and free.

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