WILD WEST EXPRESS??? INDEPENDENT contractors drivers.

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  1. Deep6

    Deep6 Bobtail Member

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    Crappy health insurance which costs $120 or MORE per week with NO Vision. (They always blame Obama care)
    You are NOT an employee driver, you are an INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. No matter what the recruiter tells you, YOU ARE AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. sure you're not a 1099.... you're a K1. Which means you have to PAY $2,500 TO WORK THERE. Don't take my word for it you'll discover it on the last day of orientation. They make you sign a contract stating that you agree to pay them $2,500 total which you set up a payment plan that gets deducted from your check every week. They even video tape you reading a statement, saying you understand that you are NOT AN EMPLOYEE. THAT YOU DON'T HAVE WORKERS COMP and you are REQUIRED to pay for it yourself at $40 per week.
    THEY TELL YOU that you'll get profits from the truck as a year end bonus. Which they never pay, because they claim you owe for damages to a truck or a trailer you picked up.
    When you leave??? They keep any monies you paid to work there.
    Don't take MY word for it, go to orientation. And watch them pull out the camera on your last day and film you reading a legal piece of paper.
    I will never go back again.
     
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  3. WWE Recruiter

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    ---This is not true. Drivers may come on as a company driver or as an LLC Partner. It is entirely up to them. If you decline hiring on as a company driver and decide to join the company as an LLC partner rather than a company driver, you agree to put in up to $2500 dollars, in order to receive 25% of the profit at the end of the year when the books close. If you are fully vested and put in $2500 you WILL get it all back should you leave the compay. If you do not put in the $2500 you do not get back what you have put in, but you still get your portion of the profit sharing at the end of the year which varies upto the full 25%, depending on how much you invested. It is explained thoroughly multiple times throughout orientation so if a driver declines to be a company driver and chooses to be an LLC partner, we make sure the details are clear to the driver before they sign. If they say they understand and sign, we can't feel responsible for anything the driver didn't understand. It is VERY rare that a driver is unhappy with the LLC partnership. When they sign on, they are okay with the terms I just mentioned and they are usually super excited when they get their profit at the end of the year! Unhappy partners are usually someone who bounces from company to company and does not stay long enough to be fully vested... We try extremely hard to keep our drivers satisfied and knowledgeable about all details involving employment here.
     
  4. superflow

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    Hmmm. ...
    Damage control
    ....good luck with your program WWE
    you've been placed on a nation wide driver's information board
     
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  5. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I wonder how many of his drivers have been there for ten years or longer? Expressed as a percentage it's a good way to judge a company.
     
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  6. WWE Recruiter

    WWE Recruiter Bobtail Member

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    We pulled a report to answer this question.... Out of current drivers we have 2 that have been here 30 years. We have 9 that have been here 10-20 years, 21 that have been here 5-10 years, 21 that have been here 3-5 years, 16 here for 2-3 years, 11 here for 1-2 years, 16 here for 6months to 12 months, 13 for 3-6months, and 19 for less than 3 months.
     
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  7. Jazz1

    Jazz1 Road Train Member

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    If you can keep a driver 3 years he is willing to tolerate the job and the #'s look good but in my opinion driver should be compensated $20 per hour minimum for all loading/unloading and delays.
    Driver retention does not appear to be a issue
     
  8. superflow

    superflow Road Train Member

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    Good answer !
    ...imagine that
     
  9. WWE Recruiter

    WWE Recruiter Bobtail Member

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    We are no touch. We do not want our drivers to get hurt. We need them to drive not to unload. If you do the math.... at even a lower ended rate of pay like 35CPM, if you drive 65 mph, you will make $22.75 per hour!
     
  10. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    And if you're stuck in traffic, or waiting to load or unload, or standing by for a dispatch that $22.75 turns into zilch pretty quick.
    Look, we know that you mean well and you're only doing what your employer needs you to do but you're insulting us.
    Most of the people on TTR have been around trucking long enough to have already heard the things that you're saying and asking us to believe. We know a snow-job when we hear it and we're tired of it.
    You're a recruiter. Your job is to fill seats. Don't come in here and start telling us that it's otherwise.
    Give us the facts and let us make up our own minds. But don't be too dismayed if the majority of us, having been burned before, don't agree with you and call you out.
     
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  11. WWE Recruiter

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    I'm sorry you feel that way. Honestly, I only need to fill 1-4 seats a month and I receive 30-40 applications a month from qualified drivers who want the job. I am not saying things so that I can fill seats. I think the numbers of drivers that we've had for extended periods of time, speaks for itself. And to respond to the 22.75 turning to zilch, that's not true. Even if you are stuck somewhere, you receive detention pay between 10 and 30 dollars per hour. If you have a stop every 8 hours, that's $182 to each destination. If you wait a 3 or so hours, because the lumper or customer is making you, you get an average of lets say, $20 minimal. so $200 to drive 8 hours and get unloaded. It's not too bad. Especially when you average 3500 miles per week like we do. I have given nothing but facts regarding our company so please DO evaluate them. Trust and believe my intention is not to insult anyone. My grandpa, my dad and my brother are all lifelong drivers. I know the driver's perspective... which is why I am honest and I truly care about upholding this particular company's name. They are good people and you will NOT find another company like this one.
     
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