Benifits For Your Drivers?

Just seems like a funny trade off when PIMPING your Big Rig is more important than doing payroll the right way.

OOPS, wrong again

Oh and by the way, "your" is a statement of ownership, "you're" is
a contraction for "you are".

But hey what do I know, I'm just a lowly truck driver, and you are a big time college edigumacated businessman.

 

Oh by the way, this is how I see it.

You fancy yourself a slick businessman,

So you lure in drivers with the promise of a paycheck without FICA or anything else withheld from it, and a shiny, chicken light ridden, chromed up, and pimped truck.

Said drivers are naive, and dazzled by the thought of playing "KING OF THE TRUCK STOP" with a wad of cash and a shiny rig with lots of doodads.

By the time the driver gets smart and realizes that he is "on the hook" for the taxes that you failed to withhold, you have already recruited another sucker and are badmouthing the first guy as a troublemaker.

You play these little games because the only sales tool you know how to use is "cutting the rate"

 

It appears with what your bringing in and how much your paying for fuel, your running cheap freight. Looks like load board prices.
I think that you would have difficulty paying somebody else to drive your trucks. I also think you would be just scraping by with that driving yourself. I could be wrong but your numbers don't look good.

 

O.K. so your 1099 your driver, fed. s/s & med. still have to be paid
either by the driver or by the employer.. uncle still gets his cut no matter who pay's.

and if you cant afford these so called extra's how are other co'.s doing it ?

 

Just curious, Don't you think a statement like this is an ignorant statement?

Ok lets run them,

$1,800 - $2,000 in fuel equals about 625 gallons of diesel fuel.

A truck will get about 6 mpg with a driver in it you are lucky

Thats 3,750 miles a week

That works out to about $0.93 a mile.

In 1986 when I bought my first tractor, that was a lousy rate.

Today it is working to go deeper in debt.

You couldn't make it if you drove the truck yourself.

In todays market it costs at least $1.20 a mile to operate without including the cost of the driver and that is a low ball figure.

 

The answer is obvious....You are hauling way too cheap!