Making a Question Sheet For New Companys Need Advice?

Annual average gross pay
Annual average days at home
Annual average miles

 

Ask What's the percentage of actual miles your going to be shorted.

 

What type of hauling,van reefer flatbed or tanker are you planning on doing?

 

• APU? Idle policy
• Satellite TV?
• Bonus system in addition to base pay
• Do they have tiered pay depending on trip length (this can open to another line of questioning)
• Extra Stops/PU pay
• "Shag" pay (Short shuttle pay)
• Other accessorial pay means
• Vacation pay policy
• Pets policy?
• non-smoker trucks?
• Truck speed limit
• Forward cameras
• Driver facing cameras
• Detention pay
• Breakdown pay
• I could go on

Don't focus too much on "average gross pay" or "average miles" because this may or may not be in line with how you prefer to work. And the numbers they throw out will be BS numbers anyway or from the top tier segment.

 

Reefer ask if you'll be delivering to alot of grocery warehouses and what's the normal wait time before you're unloaded and What kind of payment method do they use for lumpers.Van If they have alot of drop and hook.Is there alot of waiting time to get unloaded are miles consistent week after week.

 

Once you come up with a logical sheet. Please post. Thanks in advance.

 

This was a list that a very helpful guy posted in a thread in a Canadian trucking forum. YMMV.

1.Where is your orientation?
2.Is the orientation a controlled curriculum for subject matter and teaching points? Mileage? Time?
3.Do the trainers get graded by the students after completion or is there a feedback loop to make the training better? Team driving during training?
4.What is the pay during orientation and training?
5.What is the pay after training completion? List for each division please: tanker, dry van , reefer , etc. Please list if it is for ALL miles, or is a progressive ("tiered") pay scale.
6.Any bonuses post completion? 6 months? 1 year?
7.Is there a RRSP program and how is it structured? Cap limits? How much does the company match?
8.During orientation are lodging and meals paid for by the company?
9.If the trainer takes home time or vacation does the newbie keep driving?
10.What electronics does your company furnish to make a more safe and efficient driver?
11.Where are the main hubs?
12.Does the company have any dedicated contracts? Divisions? Is the newbie eligible for them?
13.What medical and dental plans are offered? Details and pricing of each plan to include time with company?
14.Can you switch trainers if it doesn't work between the two of you for whatever reason?
15.Idling policy?
16.Inverter installation policy? APU in trucks?
17.Is per diem built into the pay?
18.Breakdown and layover pay? Detention pay?
19.Are they no touch or is unloading involved? Pay for unloading?
20.How many miles do they usually put on a truck before they pull it from the fleet?
21.How does the pay period work? Do bills have to be sent in by a certain day to get paid during a week?
22.General home-time policy and where they want the truck when you go home?
23.Slip seating or assigned trucks?
24.What speed are trucks governed at?
25.Vacation policy?
26.What miles are paid miles and what miles are not?
27.When am I working and not getting paid?
28.If weather, driver (sick) or road conditions are such that I feel it is unsafe to continue driving, will I be penalized for parking until it is safe?
29.What are the reasons I could be disciplined and or fired for?
30.What can I expect my first year earnings to be? 2nd year?
31.How many miles per week does a newbie average?
32.Is there a tuition reimbursement program? Explain how it works please.
33.How many of their recruits as a percentage remain past 90 days?
34.What is the number 1 reason new recruits quit or their biggest complaint when they're terminated?
35. Do you offer performance bonuses and what are the requirements to qualify?