50 cents/mile the New Standard?

Look!..These guys will pay you $.35cpm w 1 year to pull a reefer.
With 5years you can get all the way up to $.38

http://www.kennesawtrans.com/driver.php

Funny,they have lowered the requirements from 3 years to 1 year and now are even training students..
trying to get the trucks filled and keep drivers seated..why not raise the wages and keep the good drivers they had instead of reducing requirements and dealing w rookies and/or garbage?


I really don't understand big business I guess..but I am a sports fan,and I can tell you that if you want a winning team sometimes the owner has to pull out his checkbook to keep/sign a player..

You don't win championships w the lowest payroll players(aint gonna happen)

You build a winning team by paying employees to feel like winners and WANT to be part of YOUR team WANT to win for YOU!!



Raise the Req.backup and raise the wages SO high that drivers are lining upp to drive for you and it took a recommendation from someone to even get hired there..(like it used to be)..People once WANTED to work there not because they HAD to and couldn't go anywhere else.





That's how you build a WINNING team Chuck.

 

Maybe they're holding out for the ATA to lobby for allowing 15-16 year olds to drive. That way they can pay .05 a mile!

Funny watching all these companies cutting their own throats because they're too cheap.

 

the problem is, these companies get too big too fast, and then they quickly realize that they can't compete, unless they play the same dirty games that Werner, Covenant, etc play

 

You think that is bad check out Western Distributing. They are offer .32 for solos.

 

Gotcha, That makes sense. That will probably come back and bite them in butt later down the road though. Slow & steady wins the race.

 

Let's pray that doesn't happen. Still can't believe the fmcsa is allowing this.. THEY TOOK OUR JEERB!!

 

If his net is that as a lease driver he will be broke in no time.
That net means that even if he is putting away his money for taxes each week, and has a couple grand set aside for repairs, he is not making much more than a company driver. And he is going to he hurting the first time he has a bad breakdown or even looses a few tires.

That is 78k per year net. As a company driver OTR he should be over 60 without much problem, and have no overhead. 18k more with the risk involved as an owner op it is not worth it. A lease OP should have a net after putting money away for repairs and taxes of over 100k. Or it just is not worth the risk.

 

I drove for Crete (actually Shaffer, the temp control division), have for more than a decade now, as a company driver. I make over $0.50 per mile and average 2600 miles a week. Most weeks the only time I ever get lower than 2500 is if I have time off during that week. I have a 2825 average for the last 4 weeks.

 

They've been doing this for a while, they come up here from Laredo all the time. In both semi, box truck and even vans.