Pay for drivers

Unless you find a guy who will work for pennies there won't be enough left over to be worth your time

 

Lol

 

Do you already have work lined up? Figure $250 per day

 

I drive for the glory not the money!!

 

Typical carhaul employee drivers working for a company doing irregular route, personal owned vehicles, and auction/dealer work get paid between 25 and 30% of the gross. You as the employer would pay your share of payroll taxes, workers comp, and all truck expenses. As a lease operator, which is not as common in your segment of the car haul world, I would want to be paid 80-85% of gross as the contract operator if I was responsible for fuel, tolls, insurance, and repairs, less if you as the truck owner will be covering these.

Just as an example, we pay our 4 car driver a weekly salary of $1,000 (his bring home is $750) and he works for us M-F up to 14 hours per day, usually 10-12 is all he needs to get the runs done. We could pay him on commission at 25%, and some weeks he would do better, but he is an older guy and slower so he is happy with his guaranteed salary and we are happy with his performance. He usually moves about 30 cars a week for us, with half of them being no key/inop units out of repo holding yards to auction and the other half being driveable lease returns or wholesale auction units.

 

I pay my guys that drive the 2 car enclosed 50% of gross and they pay fuel or 27% of gross I pay fuel. Their choice. Most choose the 50% and I like it. They drive my dually's slower and seem to be more conscious of everything. They average about $1500 take home right now. I just put a Pete and a Miller 7 car on the road. Driver makes 27% of gross. so far he's been averaging right at $1500 a week for M-Th home all weekend. he's happy and so am I.

 

Well Terry270 you live in BG Kentucky so we know you ain't making no money....