A basic day is 130 miles. Before I came on orders I was making $148.00 a day, now that's when I was not called to run a train. I was working Ft Worth to McAlester, OK. The run pays a trip rate of $237.00 a trip (one way). Most of the runs are all on trip rates.
A deadhead also pays a trip rate. That's why we kill each other to get into a van!
Yard jobs, TSE's and Local's pay by the hour/ mileage, and that's why you see those guy's that are older then dirt behind the throttle!
I simiplified it but that's kinda th' way it goes, and it changes drastically from local to local.
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