Is "Per Hour" Compensation Safer, and is $24 / hr Good for an Experienced Driver with a Safe Record?

@Kooter It seems like you're offering a slightly above average wage to me, providing that you are indeed paying overtime after 8/40, etc. If your benefit package is all inclusive and inexpensive (read "free" to the employee), I'd say you have a winner due to the consistency and predictable home time. However, a potential applicant that's serious about the position and serious about a career (not just a "job") will question your commitment to the transportation aspect of your business. For instance, who's doing these moves now? Why are you "privatizing" the transportation? Do you have other areas that you need freight moved? Are you going to grow the department? Those would be HUGE questions for me personally.

Also, how long has your company been in business? If you're established with a good reputation, you should be awarded with quality driver applicants. Just my opinion.

 

Yeah I said as much in my first post in this thread when I said 50k. The OP also estimated 110-130k miles per year. Can you run that and do all the stops, fueling, PTI/post-TI's in 35-40 hrs? Did you read the actual follow up posts?

 

I'd do that living in Boston. I imagine MN is slightly cheaper than Boston which has one of the highest COLin the entire country. Ya, that's way fair.

 

Yes I did, and the weekly miles are approximately 2100 per week. Times 50 weeks, is 105k miles a year... Longest drive time each day is 6 hours x4 and 4 hours x2 = 32 hours per week of drive time. That leaves more than enough time for PTI, fuel, load and unload, and still be right around 40 hours. So yea, $48k a year.