Do not ever work for RICHARDSON'S AUTO TRANSPORTATION & TOWING INC!!!

Any percentage job I had was off what the load paid. Gross!! He's beating you after fuel because it's a major expense. Depending on what the load pays you are lucky to get 32-42 cpm off of gross. Minus fuel it has to be minus a third to half of that. So you are looking at 21-30 cpm unless he has high paying loads better than $3 a mile like in the meat industry.

 

I don't run a parking lot but your being chigaleyed.....sorry. It's not your truck, you don't get the profits so fuel has nothing to do with you. A driver should never be involved with fuel except to add it and get #####ed at when the mpg is to low. Fuel costs are running 38% before FSC and the guy is a jerk for stealing from you. IMO 10 bucks says he still takes your % of fuel off his taxes too.

Do what you have to and bail soon as you can.

Good luck

JMO

 

I'm no car hauler, but I have worked on a percentage before driving some one else truck and it was off the gross. Since starting our own deal we pay a driver off the gross of the truck. If I hire an outside truck for a few days to catch up, and he is short on cash so we buy his fuel what we do is pay him off the gross of the load as usual. Then show the fuel deduction. The last scenario keep in mind he owns the truck and trailer we are just taking like 8 percent to get him loaded.

 

There has to be a better job out there. This guy is taking advantage of you. Probably pays on a 1099 and no benefits. Tell him that if you pay for the fuel,you want to claim that expence on your taxes. Then ask him to write a letter on his letterhead stating that you can claim the fuel. Also request that he have the letter notarized. My bet is he will withdraw his job offer. You would make more money working at a fast food place. If he is that crooked the fuel is only the beginning.

 

Funny how no body asked the op about the log book. Do you really have 2 years and not no better. Stay away from this guy. He won't be in business long thinking the rules don't apply to him. He also seems like the type to jack you around on future references.

 

Sounds like a good way to get you to pay for thousands of dollars of his fuel, then skip out on your pay too. You would be out big dollars that way. I would want to talk with ex-drivers of his before I did this. No job would be better than what this is if he skips out on you.

 

I don't haul car's either but any O/O I know of that has put a driver in his truck to drive it for him has always paid the driver 40-50% of the total gross revenue for the week after fuel. 25% seems like you would be working for nothing and on top of it being away from home. I'd keep looking and wouldn't waste my time with that guy.

 

I had to read that twice about 40 to 50 percent gross after fuel. We pay from 20 to 25 percent of total gross of the truck. I'm thinking there may be a little confusion about what the OP may be getting paid. Reason I think that is fuel is right at half of your expense, so 40 percent after fuel equals 20 percent before fuel. If I was OP I would talk to him one more time just to clarify which it is if it is like you posted you will be making half of the industry standard in pay.