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

Ha! Just makes me madder when I read his second post.... lets look at it with a calculator:

Load pays a grand 1000
$2.00 mile 500 miles
100 gals @5 $375

knot plus knot = $625 x 25% = $156.25 / 500 miles =.3125 per mile to the driver.....for a parking lot ! JB pays .32 for drop and hook beer......hmmmm....... not including mty miles.

This sucks man and there's no way to clean it up. Take if you must but pass if you can...he's in your pocket laughing all the way to the bank.

JMO

 

In my opinion you are going to take it in the shorts on this, "drivers" pay should be whatever % of the line-haul gross period. You have no responsibility for any of the fuel cost, and no claim to any of the fuel surcharge. And while you are correct folks are lucky to have a job these days, you are not lucky to have that one. He is asking you to pay him for the job, and I personally don't think times are that hard yet. Just my $0.02. If you go more than 100 air miles The 11/14/70 applies, to my knowledge the only ones exempt from the mandatory 30 min break is the oil field workers.

 

You worked for this clown before? Left and now went back? You must like taking it in the hiney.

 

percentage comes o ut of the line haul.

line haul is what's left AFTER fuel costs.

i'm not going to pay driver percentage of total revenue. i'll go broke.

 

Sounds like you are already broke. What about damages? I have worked under a scenario where the fuel surcharge was not added into the gross and the people who paid the fuel bill got the surcharge, not a part of driver pay. People who run companies like this should not be in business as nobody should drive in a situation like this.

 

I drove a car hauler on percentage and it started at 20% then went to 25% of gross. And this guy was super cheap. Car haulers get lousy mileage also so you are taking a big hit. Can't believe you went back to this guy.

 

I agree % comes out of line haul, but line haul is not what's left after fuel expenses, it is the gross revenue paid to the truck for moving the freight, BEFORE fuel surcharge is added in. For example if the load pays the truck $1000.00 plus fuel surcharge, the driver should get 25% of the $1000.00= $250.00 and you as the truck owner should get what's left, in this case $750.00 + what ever the fuel surcharge is.