Anyone Using Blue Bloodhound???

Also sounds like you're going to need a blood hound to get your pay checks

 

Heard the commercial on the radio is all. If it sounds to good be trure, its a duck!

 

They are playing on driver's wanting to be more independent. Just a bunch of BS.

 

Anyone here have actual experience with them?

 

I hear their ads on Road dog all the time. Good ads but lots of BS. They are pushing independence and working part time when you have another job. Here is the problem. If you already have a job you cannot just take one of their runs whenever you want. There is this thing called Hours of Service !! What about the drug test pool If they use ELD's you will need paper copies so your next trip will show your HOS. You will not be anymore independent than working for a carrier. What happens if they send you out and there is a layover due to no back haul? If you are delayed in unloading will they pay wait time? Is there a cell phone allowance. I suspect you will get a lump sum and you are on your own! Taxes will be a big pain. The IRS ,may have problems with them claiming you are a contractor . If you were using your won equipment it would be alright. It's not a scam just a new ay to sc--w driver's. But I too would like to hear from someone who has done this. What if they call you with a trip. You get to the terminal and the truck is a dirty POS. Or it is not in great mechanical condition. I think if you did this for awhile and then tried to get hired the carriers might not hire you.

 

I have some additional info on this group, it was started by the same people that run Road Dog Drivers in various parts of the country. I was told they were going around saying they were going to be the Uber of the trucking industry. The problem with the model is it doesn't really eliminate any middleman, as Uber does, and ultimately the $55 cost to the carrier is going to come from the driver or shared by the carrier with the driver let alone all the other benefits of being an employee. A facebook user actually compared them to a temporary trucking staffing firm, which appears to be most correct. Someone from the company is heavily arguing via facebook and implying they are simply a technology company. The reason for this is simple, Uber is being accused of similar things, which is being litigated in various suits including class actions. The problem being most of these independent contractors especially drivers using the carrier's equipment are most probably employees of carrier or of this new staffing firm. It would seem like all the risk is being switch from the carrier to the driver, and in the process provides an opportunity for the carrier to eliminate even more costs at the the expense of the driver.

The model in question, to me is not like Uber, which actually does benefit some, although it might hurt cab companies by directly interacting with the customer and eliminating them completely. The carriers in this model better watch out because some of the drivers are going to end up suing them or the State / Federal Government will be coming in to make a determination as to the driver's employment status i.e. "employee".

 

Sorry for the extra post. If Uber was running this model it would look like this, which is why I say it isn't Uber at all.
Step1. Rider (Customer) needs a ride from point A to B across town.
Step2. Rider contacts Cab Company Inc. via phone, email, or other for the ride.
Step3. Cab Company Inc. doesn't want employees so it post the job to Uber, it has no real drivers.
Step4. Uber Driver (supposedly an independent contractor) selects the job from Uber's system.
Step5. Driver picks up the Rider and delivers him/her to point B.
Step6. Rider pays Uber via app.
Step7. Uber pays Cab Company Inc. for the ride minus its Uber fees.
Step8. Cab Company Inc. pays the Driver minus fees (or percentage or whatever).
Step9. Driver is puzzled as he is no more independent than he was before.

Under this situation, there is really no reason for Uber to exist. Uber matches riding customers with drivers, the goal is not to match them up with cab companies which then matches it up the drivers with the customers. Its not Uber as it doesn't really eliminated a middleman, it actually just adds one, which other than working when you want is only at the benefit of the carrier.

 

Actually Uber drivers operate their own equipment. So, you left out the step where the BlueBloodhound driver goes to the Cab Company to pick up a cab, before going to pick up the rider.

 

This sounds suspiciously like an Eastern Bloc Chicago outfit I heard of a couple years ago. They would "hire" drivers by having them sign on as independent contractors to operate company equipment. Drivers received a 1099 instead of a W-2.

 

No way!