I can’t find driver s !

Because only a few trucks can cross the border, so the rates are better. There is a huge oversupply of trucks and rate cutters in Canada, so the rates are ####. Plus everything else @Magoo1968 said.

 

Those types of companies in Calgary, expect 6-8 weeks from their guys, TEAM, no resets.

 

I gotta ask........who are your trucks leased to?

 

Good Question - when I had trucks in Trappers couldn't find drivers - was brutal....

 

If you could just hold out another year, there are 400,000 potential drivers coming

 

I'm just curious if its in Canada why you would not be paying a per km rate? If you want to get work permits I know plenty of folks that are willing to come over and drive for you.

 

Exactly:Economy problem...Well just Give All the soon to be worthless Money away.

 

Because .50 cpm is easier to recruit/promote than .23cpk

 

Maybe try introducing driver incentives, if you're not doing so already. Quarterly safety bonuses or something similar. 0.55 cents/mile equivalates into about $79,000/yr. Not a bad living, but unseen to highway drivers looking at cents/mile, there has been a positive economic shift in wages, towards hourly pay for city/rural drivers. When highway drivers were paid almost double that of a city driver, that trend has slowly diminished. You may be losing qualified long-haul drivers to city P&D jobs that pay near the same rate. I personally know city P&D drivers working at Samuel & Sons, Varsteel, Cascadia Metals, etc; that make $80-90,000/yr. and are home with their families every night.
The higher wages towards OTR driving, was to compensate for the personal sacrifice of estranging one-self from family and friends for weeks/months on end. That compensation has slowly vanished (thank the Liberal Immigration Policy for that).
If you were to ask me... make $80K/yr. with the choice of OTR or local P&D (home every night) which do you think I'd choose?
I have no doubt you treat your employees better than the mega-carriers, but $79K/yr. just isn't what it used to be. Inflation has risen the prices on virtually everything, except OTR wages haven't stayed in-par with inflation. I was making $65K/yr. as a company driver 20 years ago.

 

Good points, just one thing to add.

No one is EVER going to get 12K miles a month, for 12 months, its impossible for any company in Canada to plan and coordinate that well. The waiting, confusion, constant breakdowns and such I see at all these companies, you're lucky to do 10K and thats practically living in the truck 26-28 days a month. Factor in 5-800/mo in expenses to live OTR, it drops quickly. The average gross pay for an OTR driver in Canada is 45K, the high end is 66K GROSS.