On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:40:10 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 02/16/2016 03:21 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
I see ads on trucks stating they pay 50 cents/mile IIRC. I thought about it
and said 'that ain't much' with all the bullcrap they have to put up.
Especially when they are sitting in traffic alongside me going nowhere. I
really don't know how they handle it.

No, it isn't. Sitting in traffic is part of the game but it's sitting in
a truck stop waiting for your next load that's the killer. If you're not
moving, you're not making money. If you consider the hours in the week
when you're not free to do what you want, the hourly rate is well below
minimum.

Sitting in the cab in traffic is worse than sitting at the truckstop.
The truckstop os rest time - you can make that up in miles later.
Sitting in the cab is driving time - it's logged the same as if you
were doing a mile a minute down the highway and cannot be made up
later without fudging the logs.