Everyone Saving Their Money?

They'll end up going bankrupt trying to save a few pennies.

 

they would be better off leasing the drivers and equipment, to a dedicated logistics company, under a contract.

that was my last employer, for a price, they supplied everything for the customer. i don't know what the bottom line was, but my employer was locked in at the negotiated price for like 3 years.

 

private fleets are a better employer in my book.

I've driven for a manufacturer, it was great.

 

There is a happy medium.
Start your private fleet then you can compare costs to each other. You can compare all kinds of variables that way.

 

A lot of these big companies are tired of the piss poor service these trucking companies have. When you have your own private fleet you have a lot more control. Why do you think Walmart wants to hire more drivers?

 

I work for a medium size public carrier. Picked up for us a newer account at a very large public company. While picking up I started chatting with one of there drivers. He hands me his driver referral card with his recruiter in it and says check us out we are hiring .... I said don’t they take really good care of you guys ? Yep , real good care of us !!! But he said we can’t find enough drivers. No matter what we pay and do we always need more drivers , can never find enough. Strange

 

The problem with private fleets is expenses are always there even when the revenue isn’t. I worked for a lumber company that had a few tuck and had an in-house owner operator and trucks leased to him. Company trucks first owner operators second. Keep expenses shallow.

 

Maybe because most private fleets are a lot pickier on the drivers they hire. They aren't like Prime Swift Werner etc. that will hire anybody with a pulse.