Wake up Newbies.

truckthatpassesyouby · Nov 12, 2016

I'm with you @Wooly Rhino , just give me the date, time, and location and I'll keep that appointment to horizontally park my truck accross any interstate in beautiful ol' America. It's about time we all start acting like our new President and go against the beaurocrats. Man up you little girls. MAN UP! TRUMP IT UP!!!

Brandt · Nov 13, 2016

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I have my own authority so of course I do everything myself. I do not split my pay with anyone. I do my own sells and my own dispatch. I bought my own truck with my own money. I bought my own trailer also with my own money. I have a second driver hired who starts in my second truck in February. That person will do her own dispatching on loads that I have sold previous as well as finding her own loads base on how I have set this up. She will occasionally have to find brokered loads from the various companies with whom I have started a relationship with. I will take a percentage because it is my money that will be used to buy her truck. The truck will be brand new as that is the most cost effective way for me to purchase the truck. If she wants insurance she will have to pay for it herself. She will also have to pay her own social security and with hold her own taxes. Now if she wants to hire someone to do her dispatching there are people who offer that service. .
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she sound like an employee. If your taking % from her loads she books. Also telling her she has do things like get loads the way you set things up. She can only get loads from companies you have a relationship with. That's an employee not independent contractor. I'm just saying you might want to fix that and pay her as an employee

STexan · Nov 13, 2016

Good grief. What a messed up thread with so much distortion of reality.

stayinback · Nov 13, 2016

STexan said: ↑

Good grief. What a messed up thread with so much distortion of reality.
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Oh Boy..and you'd like to add what that would be inspiring?

alghazi · Nov 13, 2016

Wooly Rhino said: ↑

No one should work in this industry for least then $60,000 per year.
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Most of these monkeys out here aren't worth anywhere near 60k a year.

pattyj · Nov 13, 2016

Wooly Rhino said: ↑

I am starting this thread because I find myself angry at the condition of trucking. So, I am going to vent. Maybe they will take this thread down as it is likely to be considered hateful. It is not meant that way. It is meant as a wake up call.

Fact. If you want to work for a trucking company, you are the most important person working for that company. Understand that and grow a pair.

Drivers earn all the revenue that a company earns. 100% is earned by the driver. Everyone from the owner of the company to the janitor who empties the waste baskets gets their paychecks from taking a piece of the drivers blood, sweat, and tears. You should not let yourself be treated like you are the low man on the totem pole.

I would like to tell you about a Company call Pam Transport. I had occasion to talk to a woman who had worked for Pam for almost a year. She was working for .28 per mile. That is BS. No one should work in this industry for least then $60,000 per year. Walmart starts at $82,000 per year. Of course they require some experience first but the job is exactly the same. Pam hires people who have no experience and trains them to do a job. They also provide a job for the folks for a one year period. Now lets go back in time.......Mr. Peabody here. Adam Reitzell II born in 1730 in Germany. Adam decided to come to America. He need money to make passage to America as he was married with a young son. So Adam signed on to a ship as a top sailor. This meant he worked the very top of the ship, taking in sails and letting them out. His wife and child would receive passage as his pay. Then came a storm. He was in the top of the main mast trying to take in the sails when a wave swept him overboard. He drown. The ship owners of course did the right thing. Since he could not finish paying for the wife's passage, Margret and the son were sold into slavery for a period of 7 years. The price was 1 barrel of tobacco. Slavery was not limited to Africa's sons and daughters. Luckily we fought a war to preserve the Union and a side effect of that was to outlaw slavery in this nation. But what do you think driving for 28 cents a mile is? Tied to a truck for 24 hours a day 7 days a week for BS wages is the same as indentured servitude which is what lead to slavery.

When you go to work for a company DEMAND more. Swift and other mega companies destroy the market by undercutting other trucking companies. Brokers who add nothing take large cuts. This is only possible because the drivers doing the actual work allow themselves to become slaves to the crackers who run the companies. Rise up and refuse to drive cheap. Owner Operators refuse to haul cheap.

The country is getting ready to pour a trillion dollars into infrastructure. What good are smooth highways without drivers driving them. We keep America alive and working. We deserve better then Slaves wages.
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You don't think many newbies as well as veterans have demanded something at their companies?All that gets is if you're not happy then find a company that will make you happy.Now if the entire company United as one that would be different.

Scooter Jones · Nov 13, 2016

I have 1 truck, 1 trailer, 1 driver, 1 salesperson, 1 dispatcher, 1 safety overseer, 1 payroll manager, and that would be ME.

Never been happier in this industry. Too be honest with you it's really not all about money for me. It's about control and independence.

God bless the U.S.A.!

Wooly Rhino · Nov 13, 2016

That's an employee not independent contractor. I'm just saying you might want to fix that and pay her as an employee
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She has the right to be paid as an employee. Her pay does not change either way. 1099 pays her and she does her own taxes. W2 requires us to use an accountant. We have an account who does our taxes and we simply deduct the cost of doing her taxes from her revenue stream.

Now we get to the point of who pays for Social Security. By law, the company does. The reason for that is to hide the true cost of Social Security from the employee. We don't hide anything. She will see what is being paid out. But she will also know that in reality she is paying both sides. She is making all the payments because she is the only one who brings in revenue.

Sales folks bring in customers but if a sales team has set up 3 new accounts, no money changes hands at that point. Nothing is owned to the company until the driver delivers her first load.

As we grow our drivers will learn how to do the business themselves. They will be able to leave at any point and start their own business. They will have the knowledge and experience to be successful. Any support staff, including the owner of the company, will have to earn the right to have the quality of employees we "create" each day.

Old Man · Nov 13, 2016

And if any of your drivers get hurt on the job they are screwed because you are to cut rate to call them employees and pay workers comp.

tinytim · Nov 13, 2016

We always have a few around who think they're 'THE Driver'.

They never last long yet somehow the company keeps doing better.

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