Sort of maybe job with horses

Hello, As I muddle through my mountain of paperwork to get my horse transport business rolling I realize that it may be best for me to hire someone for the time being. This is not a guaranteed job, and it will not start before March 2010. So if are about to lose the house or something betting on this job, not a good idea.

That said, I have the following requirements of any driver:

I will accept someone with little experience but you better have a #### clean squeaky clean background MVR credit so forth, and I am going to check. If I don't have a way to check your CDL then I have to check something that shows your responsibility.

A non smoker is greatly preferred. But if you agree to smoke outside of the truck only then I can't really whine and complain. Smoke inside and I will fire you. End of story. And I will know. Trust me.

No more then 3 violations in the last 3 years. And no serious CDL violations at all. No reckless driving violations, for as far back as I can check your record. Absolutely NO DUI or failed drug test.

Ideal candidate will be a stickler for safety, and legal logging. And I mean it. If you find something wrong on the truck tell me, I will get it fixed.

You will be transporting horses, or other animals. Thusly the ability and knowledge to handle such large animals is needed. You will need to muck the stalls, and have it washed out once a week. (Paid by me).

Maintain the truck's basic needs, aka if a light breaks I don't expect to have to pay a mechanic to put a light in. You will need to stop every 2-4 hours and check on the horses, and I don't mean stop and check like you do your in route inspection (you know get out, look at the truck, go pee, get back in, log inroute inspection) a lot can go wrong and you need to keep track of the animals.

Water and hay must be provided, some horses may need to be blanketed, so on. Some basic horsemanship knowledge is preferred.

Organization is also important, there will be rules they have to be followed EVERY load, paperwork that has to be had for every horse. You must be able to communicate to both me, shippers, and receivers.

I am not perfect, I know you aren't either. This is my first company that is transport based, thusly there will be growing pains. However, not perfect, and my trailer is upside down with 4 horses trapped in it are two very different things. I expect you to drive this trailer as if you had your life savings in it, because I DO. If its badly raining, icy, snowy, whatever, park. Take turns at ten miles below the posted speed limit, leave room so you don't have to suddenly stop. So forth.

Now for the important part, pay and hometime!

Pay is based on 2 things, base, and horses loaded. Base pay is going to be around 25-30 cpm depending on your record. Pay will go up after 2 horses, 5cents, so if we have a full load of 7 horses, you will be paid 25 cents more per mile.

Hometime is going to be harder, so I cannot guarantee you '1 day per 7' or anything like that, but what I can do is ask for a list of holidays you absolutely must be somewhere, and where that is. I will do my best to ensure you are home during that time. Other then that I am going to ask for a min of 2 weeks notice for hometime dates. Those who need to be home like weekly or something need not apply, sorry that's just not going to work. However, if you want to do like 4 months out and 2 weeks home or some sort of long home time period all together that is fine with me.

The trailer is a 7 horse with a RV front, however, I am not sure yet what the truck is going to be. It will be either a full semi, at which point it will have a sleeper and you will use the sleeper not the RV. Or it will be a pickup at which point I will fix up the RV part for you to use.

Anyone at all interested?

Also, I would be willing to entertain bringing the wife/kids along if needed, but it be a case by case basis. Non-damaging pets allowed, but I will require a deposit drawn from pay. This is going to be a 10-99 position, no benefits, however I can point you toward reasonably priced health insurance.

 

One change, after further research I have discovered its not overly costly to do payroll so I will be doing payroll as a W2 employee, not 1099. And benefits may come if it turns out to be profitable enough to afford benefits.