Is "Per Hour" Compensation Safer, and is $24 / hr Good for an Experienced Driver with a Safe Record?

Maximum hours per week is 84 hours per week with 14 on duty and 10 off duty.Once 70 hours is reached you need to take 34 hours off before you can work another 14 hours

 

Yes, you should be able to attract and retain someone with 5 years or more with a squeaky clean record. Good compensation package. Just make sure you have someone competent and experienced to handle all the details necessary to comply with all the regulations for the truck itself (insurance, permits, fuel taxes, etc) as well. Gotta keep yer ducks in a row!

 

So basicly a line haul with 2 non consecutive nights home per week. Not horrible. Have one of the otr guys here run your route on paper for ya, see what kind of reset issues you will hit if any, is it hazmat, flatbed, heavy? Refer, dry van? Hotels or otr truck?

 

And now i catch my mistake, 3 nights a week not 2.

 

Well round trip is 1050 miles, so 2100 per week. leave monday, return on wed, leave thursday, return on sat, get sat afternoon maybe and sunday off, rinse and repeat...for $48,000 per year, based upon 40 hours per week and 50 weeks.

Is that enough to attract a person to work 6 days a week? I don't know enough about the economy in twin falls to answer that question.

 

Like anything else in general you get what you are paying for.

So 24$ is not too bad according to what you said your driver will do about 55 hours per week.

If on top of that you cover a good portion of the insurance you will have everything on your side to be selective as what type of driver you want to have out there representing your company.

Good luck!

 

It can be more, but it's rare. I've had 15 hr days when a consignee or shipper held me up. It's legal to be on duty over 14 hrs, you just can't legally drive after that. Generally speaking, I probably averaged about 12 hrs/day.

It's what you want it to be. IMO, it depends on the person more than exp. But without knowing the person, I'd say the more exp, the better the odds. A person can have a great MVR and still be a lazy whiner.

With the updated info, yes. Originally I thought you were just trying to hold pay at 40 hrs no matter what, and at 130k miles/year, that wouldn't work.

Overall, it's very similar to my prev emp. In fact, I looked at your location to see if it was, lol. I only quit because I wanted to try local driving. There were three of us road drivers, I had 3 years exp when I left, the other two had well over 15 years. All of us had clean MVRs and represented the company very well when dealing with customers. So, yes, you should be able to find someone.

One thing I might suggest when advertising is to provide estimated annual pay, which I'm guessing ,, a conservative estimate would be around 70k+.

 

Did you read his actual post, said 35 to 40 hours per week, spread over 6 days... so that is $48k a year.

 

That's offensive man...and I'm not even Syrian.