Drivers pay

I'm not sure how to work out pay for road jobs but it blows my mind that there actually people saying he pays to much. Guys are lining up up for the job so fast they had to shut down his messages. LMAO I've never driven for anybody but myself and I'm interested. But yet some say he pays to much and is to nice and what he needs to do is be a prick and pay minimum wage. Greed gets us all I guess. 110 a year and home every night getting a cut (percentage) and I'm going to bust my ### to get the biggest piece I can. Tell me me I'm going to get a set wage and your going to get set amount of work. Some people just don't want to work or work because they have to, and some people want to work and the more they make the more will work. You just need to find the ones that do which are the ones that are already working so you better bait the hook good.

 

Hey Ken Ro, since PMing isn’t working....

Is the company you contracting to looking for lease ops?
Are the rates decent down that way? BBL or hourly ? I don’t want a job from you, I already own my own trucks.

 

I don't get the pays too much crowd either.
I always paid my drivers on percentage, no they did not get paid deadhead miles, depending on how you look at it, but their checks more than made up for it or layover time.
Their checks would rival or beat most cpm pay any week of the year, but when we got on good paying gigs, they would get a shot in the arm and make double or triple than what a cpm job would pay. Were they worth it, probably not, but I had good and steady hands with near zero turnover, and was glad to pay them that because my bottom line was also double or triple what it normally was, so really no bucks off my back either. I even funded the office on percentage, it consisted of my wife and 1 sometimes 2 employees, but the office got 5% of the haul and that was the budget they worked with, even though the employees were on a set salary.

Now since I mainly just run my truck, I will park it for any length of time when work is not paying what I want and run someone elses if I need to. In the summer months I will bring home after taxes 3 grand for a 6 day week and sleep at home every night, am I worth that just for riding and guiding, not in my opinion, but if someone wants to pay me more I would jump ship right along with the est of the drivers doing and making the same bucks.
The OP is likely in that same boat, what he is doing is obviously paying well, try to pay drivers less and there are always another outfit that they can go to.
When I ran several trucks, I never once bought a truck until I had a driver I knew wanting a job, and I never had a driver leave before a truck was had paid for itself either. I myself could not go out today and buy a truck then hope to find a driver that would take care of it and hang in there from what I see of todays available drivers, I doubt if 1 out of 100 would suit me at all, not saying they are not there, just few and far between.

 

This will not be a problem with autonomous trucks. Let the lazy bums sit at home

 

This O/O will never put down 500,000 dollars for a robot that does not work, come on now.