Advice for soon to be flatbedder

Aren’t these 1099 things illegal if your classified an employee?

 

Do you have any driving experience? If not, a 1099 is a good way to fast track yourself out of the industry.

 

Yeah I missed that, first .45 isn’t decent and .35 is worse especially on a 1099.

 

Why don't you tell us what is the problem with your past history. Someone will point you in the right direction or help us understand why you are selling yourself short.

 

Get everything in writing. Who pays what.
This is important. It could be that you are actually an employee, not a contractor. This could turn into a problem in the future.

 

.35 at a W-2 company is low these days, .35 on 1099 is absurd. By the time you figure in taxes and about $150 a month for an occupational accident policy on yourself you’d be better off working at McD’s.

You’re being taken advantage of, plain and simple. If they don’t pay their employees correctly what else do they cut corners on?

 

Burger Flipping is often advised within the Forum when there's a BAD Job opportunity, in this situation it may be excellent advice

 

Some times you have to bite the bullet.
Get some experience and get the hell out of there as soon as you can.

 

I wanna say here before we get out of hand, no one is trying to be rude to you and your talking to a group of guys who recommend avoiding megas. Chinatown is not an expert on trucking jobs, he recommends megas that you can find in those little books in front of all truck stops.

What was the “bad training” that got you fired?


You’re in Mississippi there are driving jobs there. The one you’re describing is a screw job.