Pay rates going up?!

If this was truly a free market, trucking jobs would have to advertise the same pay system as all other jobs. But they don't, many trucking jobs and almost all trucking jobs for newbies pay a piece rate unlike most every other job in the working world.

If trucking and mega company's had to advertise their hourly pay rate, the free market of jobs would discourage most all workers from investing in a trucking career. The churn would end, the mega companies would cease to exist, and safety would increase industry wide, and freight rates would be more stable.

Companies had no problem lowering wages in the recession of 2008, or the slow downs of the 90's or after the dot.com boom of 2000.

Pay rates have been rising since 2010, but the greatest increase for everybody did come around when the megas all had to take on ELD.

 

1099 is ok for the drivers that can handle their money responsibly. When I first started driving I was on 1099 just have to set money aside for taxes and you’re good to go.

 

Comical

 

wow you must be a really hard runner for it to take 5 weeks for your logbook to find you...........

 

Don't forget to get yourself properly insured and I'm not talking about health insurance.

The excesses of "1099 driving positions" is a huge part of what has driven this industry into the toilet in the last 15 years.

See somebody dumping piss bottles or trash out of their truck onto the ramp or truck stop? 9 out of 10 times that's a 1099 driver and probably of questionable legal status to work in the USA.

I call it the way I see it

 

There was this story that came out too. Anyone have an opinion on this ?? Analysts: Driver Pay About To Jump Significantly - TruckersReport.com

 

I have to agree with him

 

I have worked in a couple of factories where everyone made exactly the same wage for the same position. Didn't matter if you were there since the place opened in 1985, or had a better ethitic with no call ins, or did a much better job at loss prevention..... you made exactly the same pay as someone who called in almost enough to get fired, or ran product with bad date codes, or product that leaked. This was a fluid milk plant.

Work ethics or tenure meant nothing to these people. Wrong on so many levels. Someone who shows up to work consistently and makes the company more money doesn't get anything to show for it. After a while most people that work there just do the minimums, with no incentive to do better. Before anyone asks this was a non union shop.

This is just a sign of the times in this sick country. Big business doesn't care about the common man, only at the point where the work is no longer getting done.

 

The good driver can be taken care of by giving him the better loads, keeping him running as he wants and working with him on home time. Giving him the better equipment. This is the driver who will make the company money and they should take care of him.
The driver who has been there for 15 years should be rewarded for being loyal but not overdone.