Company drivers

You must be in chicago. I thought those guys paid good. But best option to ne is hourly. But gotta get the hours in

 

the only way to compete is to hire those polish and russian imigrants for 16 an hour like pacella does then buy trucks that cost 10 to 15k no more new trucks will be destroyed oh and try to steal buisness

 

Well.. the company i'm leased too.. has about 40 company drivers and 43 owner operators... i'd say that about 99% of the company drivers here are content, more then content. From what I hear (it's been 4 years since I was a company driver .. turned into a o/o but started as a company driver with them ).. they're percentage based... and they're making anywhere near $900 to $1,600 a week on 5 days. Now.. there's always your other 1% where they complain.. but ive learned that those 1% are the one's who have a million and one excuses NOT to work and want to get rich doing nothing. Or just overall.. just complain about every single thing ( you'll find these dudes everywhere.. i call them rotten apples).

Long story short... if ya can have your drivers make $900 to $1,300 a week.......... you'll have happy company drivers. Anything less.. well.. uhm.. dunno.

Also.. offer benefits if you can... helps ALOT. company i'm leased too benefits for company drivers such as:

1) Paid vacation (1 week based on $20/hr x 8 hour of work for 5 days) so you're guarenteed $800 of vacaction pay that week.
2) Paid Holidays (6 major holidays) which is also based on $20/hr x 8 hours so $160.
3) Free Company Paid Health Insurance (Upto $300 paid.. anything after.. you cover the diff).
4) 401k..

Offer stuff like
Paid DOT inspection bonuses (my co. is running a promo right now.. any dot inspection level pass with no violations is a $450 bonus... when promo is done.. level 1 = $400, level 2 = $350, level 3 = $300) ...

Now, you might not be big enough to do these things but YOU need to get creative............ i dont know where you stand and how your company works but taking care of your drivers.... they'll take care of you.

 

Hourly I think works best think pacella drivers get percentage on weekends and pretty much all the g/4 loads or best paying loads honestly it's probably only 15 company trucks

 

15 trucks??????Pacella has 300 trucks and when you add their other 3 companies(Cushing, ACELL and ALLECAP) your looking at close to 700 units, but that's both O/O and Co Drivers....

 

I'm sure when you add o/o but maybe only 20 max blue company trucks think all is hooked up with them too who knows the mafioso is alive and real

 

I'm paid on a split of hourly and percentage. Anything within 100 air miles is hourly, beyond that is percentage. Our percentage starts at 22% and tops out at 30%, hourly starts around $15.50 and goes up from there. As a company driver I'm content. Our O/O are true Indy's though, they have their own authority and insurance, and use the company as a broker. IIRC, they get either 90% or 95% to the truck. In our area, most of the O/O's are L/O's, they typically only get 75% to the truck.

 

I've been at Central States after years of floating around, and I'm very happy. Steering a 2016 Cascadia, hourly is $18.00/hr with OT.

The hourly pay always looks low compared to the fly by nights, but I'm getting a steady 60-65 hours a week, every week. Their safety director who's based in Joliet was just telling me they are adding a twice a year safety bonus for company drivers to replicate what they do for the owner operators. Don't know much more about it yet but I know the owner operators love it.

Don't fall into any of the percentage company traps - doesn't work in the rail environment, especially with E-logs coming..