Advice on Looking for a driver

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this is the real reason

 

lol

 

Steal the driver from someone else. Good drivers are rarely looking for jobs. If you are still in the truck, you should see other drivers in action...how they deal with the customers, how they carry themselves in public, whether or not the bathe while away from the house, heck whether or not they can actually drive. Offer the driver a sweeter deal than what he has.

When you post ads, you will find that you will have to pick through 250 bonehead applicants per every 1 competent A Game driver. Skip through the boneheads and find your driver while he's on the job..

Perhaps @Dave_in_AZ can give you some ideas also.

Luck in battle, hand.

 

People are being paid a premium in addition to regular unemployment to not work. Now $400 in addition to regular weekly unemployment. The Iowa workforce web sight states right on there they are not required to look for work. All over town there are help wanted signs. Last month 27% missed their rent payment. Where’s the money going? Are they stashing it? Who knows, but wife and I will keep working, paying bills, and saving as long as we possibly can. To the OP, good luck.

 

Needle in a haystack, my friend. To be clear, most of the people out of work today are not truck drivers. People professions, mostly. The problem, is the lack of qualified drivers, most new drivers , that typically hire on with the megas for schooling, don't last 90 days. Good ol' fashioned , RESPONSIBLE leeever pullers, are retired, tapping on their keyboards giving outdated advice. I say, go it alone. A driver today will make a mistake, and you'll be in the poor house, while they skip town and land a job at Subway. Really, if you have a good account, don't jeopardize it with the clowns of today. Let the megas have the headaches. If you can't make it alone, it's time to get out. The old adage, "if one truck does well. 2 must surely double that", doesn't fly today.

 

Echoing what the gurus have said already...
I can count on one hand the guys I would have drive my truck.
As TripleSix says, the best drivers don't look for work, the potential employers come to them!
A friend had three trucks when he told me he personally(and per truck) made more money with one truck. He got up to a five truck high. Problems magnified almost exponentially for him. He now has one truck and no other drivers and says he will never have a driver again.

 

Yeppers.

Plus, the decent drivers, with a mind & desire for business, who go to work as an "independent 1099 contractor" running someone else's truck, usually (not always) figure out they can make more money by just doing it themselves and move on.

It's a vicious cycle and like swimming upstream all the time.

 

So are you financing the 2nd truck or buy outright?