Pay with Less than 1-year Exp

As you can see from my post count I have been around a while but stay mostly in the O/O. I run a small carrier and run a new division for a larger company.

I find that I have the access to the equipment and thinking about hiring drivers. These drivers would work for my company but these trucks would be leased to the larger carrier and my company would do 100% of the dispatching. Kind of the best of both worlds - larger company benefits with the dispatch and attention of a small company.

If I hire drivers I want to do this for the long-term. I was thinking of working with driver that have 6-months (they know what it is like to be living out of a truck) and pay them above average and as they gain experience move the pay-up. I would also love experience drivers but the cost of recruiting experience drivers is insane. But the insurance cost on the new driver is also high but with that I at least pay it as the driver running not all upfront.

So what is a good pay for an OTR driver with less than a year experience? I am seeing drivers making less than $500/wk or $26-30K a year. Is this true?

 

Do you have any idea what the van people made? I am thinking I can pay in the $40k range.

And I am glad I got to meet you.

 

I agree. The treatment is awful at all levels. I have gone on and on in many posts and like to think I addressed many of the issues when I started Farm2Fleet.

On what I am looking at here with company drivers I am bumping against the issue of the cost of insurance. It is so high going into the first 2-years that it almost makes you want to just say "no thanks". But then I look at this from a long-term prospective. If I can find someone that likes the life of driving (still many that love it) but doesn't have the experience. We can work with them, treat them well and several years from now I'm not having a driver issue.

Thanks for the response.

 

Lots of great points. Right now with our straight trucks we are pretty easy. I guess the way that I look at it is that when you have a good company and a good employee they work to each others benefit. And when you get those people that take advantage of your flexibility you work through it.