What am I missing?

Same math as you should have learned in elementary school. Cost a hour per employee = (benefits - costs) / (hours worked a week x weeks). It was spelled out for you: " {$5000 -[.6 ($2600 + $11050)] }/(32 weeks x 70) = $1.39 an hour!

8 months - training time(6 weeks). You are confused because the time conversion from month to weeks is not perfectly 4 weeks to the month. The hourly rates work out the same regardless.

Reading is as essential as math skill in elementary school.

Most of us do not truck on Fantasy Island. You may only log line 3 but the rest of us work for a living. Freight just floats on and off your truck as you cruise around a 45mph. Your truck never breaks down and you arrive to work with it all checked out. Your store a midget in your jockey box to do the real work of hitching the trailers that all come pre-loaded, doing the paperwork, and consulting with dispatch.

Most other mega-crap drivers come close to houring out each week. End even then they underestimate and cheat the logs because they don't get paid crap. Real work hours are way over 70!

The lack of shortage is only thing your are right about. However, the OPs original question was 'What am I missing.' Referencing 'if there is a shortage of drivers why do not company do more to entice drivers?'

They do not do more for the driver because the shortage is just a lie. The use it to extort more benefits from the government. They use it to entice the unemployed to pay them for training in hopes that trucking will be a 'in demand career.' When in fact they take the money, provide little training, run the driver to death, pay exceedingly little, and collect benefits from the government. Then after the Christmas season surge ends they fire the driver on the pretense of safety/service violations. This gets them out of paying unemployment. They then clock the driver with safety/service violations on there DAC, thus ruining the drivers career and making them unhirable with only 8 months experience. Creating a conundrom for their competing carriers that are not self-insured. How do they hire a drivers with only 8 months and a bad DAC?

 

I'm going to make a bet that this driver doesn't know the difference between net & gross...

Probably doesn't know how to calculate one's weekly avg for the YTD either.

 

So teach him, instead of ridiculing him.

 

So true...

 

That is one of the dumbest analogies I have read on this forum. Laddie, you have no clue of what you speak.

 

[h=2]anal·o·gy[/h] noun \ə-ˈna-lə-jē\: a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way
: the act of comparing two things that are alike in some way


It was not a 'analogie' or analogy. It was a statement. As such I thing it primarily rings true.

 

Some of the earlier posts about subsidies and collecting money from training programs are no doubt true. It is strange indeed when a driver with several years experience with a recent accident is unemployable yet a recent grad from certain CDl schools are employable.

Also I believe there must be a documented shortage of workers before a company can be allowed to employ temporary foreign workers. It is to the company's advantage to create the perception that there is a shortage.

 

Yeah, I have a clue: I went to one of those schools. But, instead of slacking my way thru school, I went into engineering (and graduated with the degree). One of the sayings we had there: "if ya flunk out of engineering, just walk across the street and make A's in business school." And it was exactly as I said it, then and now.

It's unfortunate, but it's a fact: and it's that fact that has helped bring this nation to its knees.