Joe & Tow's new trucking adventures/ex GTI thread

Another deceptive statement Mr. Heartland. You pay diffirent pay scales for diffirent regions. Also drivers are sent into other regions but are not paid
the higher rate when they leave their region. You give a driver a load that requires them to use a toll
road but wont approve the tolls. Therefore the driver must take a much longer route but you dont
pay for the extra miles driven. Why not? Because
you think its ok to cheat your drivers.

 

Including the W2's that pay to teams?

The W2's that are to lease/Owner ops.

Your statement of "simple calc" from all w2's does not ring true to me. With the turnover you see in drivers there would be no simple calc. unless you only look at drivers with over 1 year of employment.

 

That average doesn't include teams or owner operators (Heartland doesn't do lease purchase, only hires on owner operators who already have a truck), and is rightly only inclusive of everyone who was there for the whole year (not people who hired on mid-year), otherwise the average would be inaccurate.

Anyway, time to get back on track to the purpose of the thread that Joe and Tow started, which isn't to talk about Heartland or GTI!

 

That is up to you.

but don't give him any ideas about reciting more fantasies! lol

 

To play a bit of devil's advocate here, don't O/Os get 1099s, rather than W-2s?

 

I don't stop by here much anymore, so perhaps my comment is late to the party, but here it is, anyway.

Measuring quality is rarely "simple as that." For what it's worth, longevity has never been a reliable metric to use when "assessing" an employer. People stay and leave for all kinds of reasons. My guess is Swift has multi-million milers, too, but there probably aren't too many cheerleaders whooping up the quality of that company.

 

The farther I get away from it, the better the percentage pay I had at the regional I worked for looks. I cared not one hoot about how many miles I drove; what was important was what was in the back. I recall one trip that was less than 300 miles total (from where I was to the pickup to the delivery) but the load was a high-value load, so my pay for that one measly run was more by itself than any one-week paycheck I received while at GTI. Kinda makes me wish i'd stayed. I might still be driving!