Any o/o hire a driver?

Is it a standard route? If so pay daily plus accessories.

 

You really think so?? I would tend to disagree. However, getting back to the original question, it has always been my contention that the driver should be paid based on how the truck is paid. If the truck is paid by the hour, driver should be paid by the hour, if the truck is paid by the load, driver should be paid by the load, truck by the mile, driver by the mile etc. If you pay a driver on a different rate structure than the truck you are opening yourself up for a world of hurt and it is virtually impossible to budget/manage your human resources costs.

 

For the small operator paying the driver the same way the truck earns revenue certainly makes life easier.

We paid our drivers on percentage of load revenue as that is how the truck was paid. We paid 18-22% of the "true" gross revenue the truck earned, which typically worked out to $7,000-$9,000 per month with the occasional month of $11,000-$12,000. I even had one driver earn just over $15,000 one month.

We did not pay overtime, but it was accounted for by way of a collective agreement as is allowed by labour legislation.

Nobody ever quit over pay.

 

i hear you but my point is all truckers should be paid well regardless what they haul.

 

How will that work with the load of hay paying peanuts and then the farm equipment coming back paying well? Should the company average it out or should the driver accept a percentage of a low paying load then the same % for the high paying load? I guess it boils down to what is deemed fair for both parties in each situation.

 

The best answer is refuse to haul for peanuts all together. That's how we got to where we are today.

 

Ok. Send the truck empty to nd to pickup that sprayer. And then pay the driver how much, exactly? Do you think the sprayer will pay you more because you drove there empty to pick it up?

 

This is why rates are what they are. If everyone tells the guy with the hay bales he needs to up his rate and refuses to haul for peanuts eventually he has to up his rate if he wants them moved. Yes. No. Too many people are hauling to cover fuel cost to get to the dangling carrot at the other end. Is there anything wrong with making good money both ways ?