Small Fleet Owner Seeking Advice

Hello All,
I am new to this site our company runs a small fleet in Southeastern Pennsylvania (7 trucks) and we need help or advice as to retaining drivers, unfortunetly the qualified amount of drivers is shrinking by the day with the increased regulation EOBR requriements and just over all work ethic its becoming harder and harder to stay in business. We like to think we pay decent .38 CPM to start up to .43 CPM depending on years exp and how hard the driver runs. We are having trouble finding guys that can do 2500 miles per let alone asking to do 3,000 per week. It seems like many drivers just dont care about the fact that we as as company have to pay insurance,trailer, truck payments etc. We are looking for a solution to perhaps have the drivers get their "skin" in the game and at the same time make more money we would like to OUTLINE our thoughts and get some feed back if this something that would work:

Company provides truck and trailer
Driver pays for fuel & Tolls and is paid percentage of the load/gross or a standard rate per mile
Spilt trailer cost
We would provide maintience on the truck


Obivously they are pros and cons. We do not know how good or bad this idea is, all we can say is we are brainstorming and looking for feedback!

 

It would be 1099 of course because the drive is truly independent thanks for your reply

 

Tractor fleet- do you think it would be feasable if we provided the fuel cards? Honestly I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel start go dark with trucking lol thanks for your reply

 

Tractorfleet- We do have our own fuel cards, basically the way cacluclated the math after the fuel, diesel, trailer the driver would net $1600-$1800 per week. We use both load boards and direct freight I would say its 50/50 between load boards and direct freight.

 

AVERAGE 2850 MILES this is average for the last 30 days