Rookie driver turns down $1500 weekly guarantee

If it's expectations, you should see a Canadian posting about his Employer-Emplyee agreement that must be quite something else. Here we are a "At will" Nation with employment. It can go away at any moment for any reason.

Ive been thinking about this subject today. Maybe my post is a little too harsh. I made close to that weekly just OTR no touch and did not burn the hours much from time to time. Burned enough of it to show that there is good miles that week.

Mileage pay is obsolete. Minimum or Gauranteed are not words that compute. If you really want to keep a good driver, pay him a single number every week. I had a taste of that and instantly the problem of running miles went away and expanded to overall quality of work itself. It's easier to do the work when you know you will earn this much every week without fail. Unless you did something truly stupid, outrageous or was caught drinking and or drugging etc.

There might be a section of our industry in which the physical doing moving freight costs too much time and is too physically draining when one is also expected to hop into the tractor trailer and endure another live load or unload stop overnight towards morning with little sleep etc. There are much much easier ways to earn that kind of money or close to it without the demands imposed by live loading or unloading and the associated losses in time waiting.

It is my theory that when a trucker wakes up in the morning (Or evening) after a proper 8 hours or 10 hours off sleeping and resting properly... that trucker's time being awake is now very valuable. The reason is that after about roughly 16 hours our bodies develop toxins and melatonion etc designed to put us in the right frame of mind to get sleep later at the end of that day. If you make the trucker sitting around all day for 12 hours waiting on a picnic table or plastic chair that is never cleaned by anyone in a small room of unwashed bodies all waiting at a Walmart DC or something... you can bet that driver is going to be hunting up no touch companies too. Just like I did. For me Medicines is the ultimate no touch. They don't want anyone touching it period. I might have maybe moved two pallets of the stuff out of the nose once in several years roughly with McKesson and there were 5 people eyeballing me to be sure all of those little vials came out of there. I don't know why they did not move it themselves. 5 strong supervisors. Maybe it was a test I don't know. Anyway that's not work. That's actually moving something that really seriously either saves lives, helps people when they need it bad and sometimes when necessary palliative gives peace to those who cannot tolerate reality in a destroyed body or mind.

Hauling potato chips is not the same motivating.

The money? It will take care of itself. Salary is best. Ditch the words like minimum or gauranteed and you will attract more flies with honey than with vinegar. You might even find those willing to just do the work and not worry so much about miles. (There is none to worry about other than being on time somewhere...)

 

true around us 1500 would go a lot further

 

This is exactly how it should work. The reason that it doesn't work that way is because drivers won't stand their ground and demand that things work that way.

 

If that is such a great job/paycheck why don't they have a swarm of drivers fighting over it?.

Always more to the story.

 

Temp zones?, multi stop reefer?, driver load/unload and count?. Presumably all this they will want done during the driver's 10hr break if possible.

Much easier ways to pull in $1500 gross per week without all that messing around. I get close to that and I drive OTR for a carrier on the low end of the CPM spectrum with 0 driver touch freight. My company doesn't even want us to count the stuff in the trailer.

 

As a fresh rookie 1500 is pretty good if you ask me. Try that otr, it ain't gonna happen. Sounds like food service. My 1st job was humping cases of food all day. 48 footer usually cube'd out floor to ceiling and a 2 wheeler and a ramp. No fancy lift gate and pallet jack. Personally I'd do that and sleep in my own bed at night than go with a bottom feeder mega, with zero experience this guy doesn't have many options

 

I LIKE touching my freight, unless it's radioactive...

 

I'd rather sign a CR England lease than break my back doing food service.

Horses for courses.

 

Better to be unemployed and living with parents or being supported by in-laws. Take the job until something better comes along. The free ride has gotten to cheap and lasts too long.