Rewards or incentives for you as a driver?

in collage motivation class they teach you money is not a motivator job satisfaction is. i thought that was a crock then and still do,the only time that works is when you have a supervisor and he or she is power hungry and cares about nothing else. that being said show me the money and i think most drivers think that way,now notice i said drivers. if you want driver retention, pay them a living wage and treat them as you would treat any of the office staff. anything else is just fluff. b safe out there

 

I dunno, I got an attendance bonus recently. They said it was going to be $250.00, and it was. It started out as $300 and something, but then THEY took out the taxes, leaving me with promised bonus.

 

Ok, all they did was figure the taxes normally taken out to make the final the actual 250 promise. So that actual check, must have been a wee bit over 300.

But in general terms, a cash bonus of say $1,000 is written as such on the check, all taxes on receiver.

All my vacation checks were of the regular weekly one, minus all taxes. O/T is (to me) the biggest rip off there is. work (say) 20 hours O/T, pay taxes on 10, like we worked for free for 10 hours.

I would work several weeks of O/T, see the taxes taken out and said forgetaboutit, no more O/T for me.

 

So.......uh.........*cough*........erm.......ah.........Are we talking a ma-ssage at an Oriental establishment, in......say.....maybe not the most upscale part of town???

















What??!?? You know most of you were thinking it!!!!!

 

Ah yes... my favorite... the uh... "happy ending"

 

Please don't. You know you're only encouraging Chinatown to come with one of his lists, this one being creepier than the others.....

 

Cash is cash. No taxes taken out Hand me or your driver some Ben Franklins and say thank you for your hard work. That's it. &)@&&&@" people always trying to make things harder than it has to be.

 

Yeah, but it's the ol' "pay me now, or pay me later" deal. Eventually, the taxes WILL be paid.

 

Cash & a raise

 

I'd stay away from big fancy prizes for only a few drivers because it comes off as pandering to a few suckups and actually creates resentment from the rest of the drivers.

I think a paid hotel room and maybe a meal for drivers who are stuck out on the weekends a lot would really go a long way for morale.

Because of the nature of OTR with dispatch and truck quality not being equal, it's hard to have a fair contest.

Time off for running hard should be the biggest prize IMO. I like to be rewarded by making a bunch of money, then getting back to my real life. Apparently some people aren't like me and like to spend a lot of time hanging out in backwater truck stops.