I have been driving full time for almost two years and I make $19.50. Why would there be someone making more than me right off the bat?
Did you go full-time without being a qualified coverage driver? If so you start at bottom pay or are red-circled at part-time rate. This could be different where you are but seems to be the most common scenario from what I see on here.
My driving class had a part-time person offered a full-time position part way through our training week. His predicament was go full-time and keep his $20 an hour part-time rate until the progression went higher or turn down full-time, get qualified as a TCD and hope for another bid.
He made the choice to take the full-time job. Had he known his building would hire over 70 more full-time drivers in the next few years he could have qualified, signed another bid and started off $8 an hour higher.