Can i open my own lumper service as a comp. Drivers and charge my com. Lumper fees??

That sounds like a lot of work for $27.00 , I think you have a good ideal stick it to those greedy ########.. Lol

 

1500x18¢=$270 just saying that's a decent days pay.

 

You could hire somebody to do it for you and have money left over.

 

1500 * .18

Why do you need someone to calculate that for you?

 

Short answer- sure you can open your open lumper service, and charge those swine whatever you dang well please.

However, don't expect the aforementioned "swine" to continue to issue you a paycheck to drive their truck. So, suck it up, put your big boy britches on, or find another company.

Or, perhaps practice your mad burger flippen skillz yo!

 

I don't know why you can't open a lumper service. With oversized loads, sometimes brokers require that I submit permit invoices to them so they can re-imburse rather than have me quote them an "all in" rate. In these cases, the broker doesn't like to pay me for the time I spend acting as a permit service applying to the individual state's permit offices. So I send the broker a copy of the bill from my permit service....which happens to be my company. I've never dealt with a lumper, but it would appear that the situations are similar.

As Mudguppy mentioned above, your employer make not take kindly to your idea so you may want to take steps to ensure your employer doesn't ever figure out that you are the lumper service. I'm pretty sure a simple search of the sole prop's name will show them it's you. Same with a corp. Might have to consider a Delaware of Nevada company. IIRC, officers of companies domiciled in these jurisdictions can be anonymous.

Only you can say if it's worth it or not.

Question: Won't your employer get suspicious if, all of a sudden, the same lumper service appears at all 9 drops....right out of the blue? Won't your employer call the customers and ask who is unloading?

 

You can certainly open a lumper service, that doesn't mean the receivers you go to will allow you to work on their dock once they find out you are now a business. Most places require huge insurance policies for lumpers. Then figure in the self employment tax and you will be better off taking that measly $270 the company offers.

Or better yet, rather than trying to swindle a company out of money just move on to greener pastures.

 

Or, Quit and find another driving job. And at the interview ask if they haul plants/flowers. If they say yes, tell them your unloading fee is $1500.00 per trailer load. See what their response is.