Help me PLEASE!! Turning around a trucking business

Try calling the customers and ask them to fax you a copy.

As for that driver?? Withhold his pay. Tell him, "you haven't seen your checkbook".

Also, from now on, have ALL your drivers use a truck stop faxing machine, to fax you copies. If anyone refuses, then hold thier paycheck, till they produce it.

 

Exactly. No driver in this business gets paid until they turn in the paperwork.

Also, any "loans" (advances) you give come out of the next paycheck no matter what.

 

Originally Posted by Tiffy

Next question: One driver I let go this morning (called in sick 3 out of very 5 days each week) refuses to give me his load slips. He says he "hasn't seen them". Will I just have to accept the fact he won't give them to me and accept that I won't get paid since I need them to bill?


#1. Calling the customers and ask them to fax your copy. That have to have a copy them selfs to keep in their records for business expenses for the tax man.

refuses to give you the his load slips

#2 NO load slips, NO PAY for him

Called in sick 3 out of very 5 days each week.

#3 YA, Fire his lazy but and be done with the garbage

Between $700-$1000 take-home from a 5-day week and most of our guys have no experience and have terrible driving records.

God, I have experience and have Good driving record and I do not get even that.

 

It's almost a sure thing that the drivers you canned will file for unemployment even if the hey were on 1099's.

You need to have your records in order so you can contest their unemployment payments hitting your unemployment insurance. You will need to show any employee personnel records you have for those drivers. If you haven't been keeping formal records, start now for your current drivers.

For the recently departed, write down anything you remember (call-ins, lost paperwork, etc) and you'll be ready when that notice comes.

 

how did you achieve such success to buy all this equipment and now suffer on basics such as GPS?

 

One last note Tiffy: you mentioned that your fuel stats are not consistent in the reefers- and I wanted to say it sounds like someone is selling fuel out of your tanks. Find him, fire him- and if you hear him complain- threaten him with prosecution.

GOOD JOB, I hope you recover well and get back to making a profit.

Lesson learned and disaster avoided? Keep tweaking and fine tuning things, make us proud!

 

I want to sound like a jerk so here I go. Farmers have no business trying to run a trucking company.You are getting everything you deserve,just remember the government doesn't rescue you when times are tough.If you want to save your business, you can pay me $100,000 a year to run your company.Otherwise,let me know when the Taylor Martin auction is.The reason I am so bitter is I used to deal with farmers running trucks and cutting rates and it sucks.STICK TO FARMING and I will not start farming.