What to pay a Line Haul Driver

Can pay what you think you’re worth, but remember, the truck needs to eat too.
.40/mile x2500 miles $1000.
Or you can pay 25 % of gross.
I started paying myself $140/day for everyday I worked.

140 x 5=$700 for 7 days is $980.
Still gotta pay taxes, pretty much 1 to 1.5 week per month = taxes.
Doing more local work I now pay myself $100/day or $50 for half day.

 

Most of whats going around now is half of what's left over

 

So if I put a driver in my freightliner and offered them $1500/wk as a 1099 that should be fair? I have an 'extra' truck, I'm just hemming and hawing about whether or not I want the hassle of an employee and added maintenance costs because they're not going to care.

 

You going to make that much a week

 

It wouldn't be legal....
Employee = W2
Contractor = 1099

 

The truck *should* gross at least $4500/wk bare minimum.
1500 to driver
1200 fuel
1800 for me to put back into the truck...

It's put a driver into it or part it out. A century is not worth, as whole unit, the sum of its parts.

 

What year is your Frieghtliner?
thankyou

 

It's a 2010 Century with a brand new (not reman) DD15.

 

"I dont have a clue" and " inhereted truck" in you sentence tell me run the f$$k away from trucking now