Fired on day 2 of a new job?!?!?

If you do that for your drivers, where do I sign up?

 

Interesting that the guys that would go the furthest to have incredibly satisfied employees, are employees & not business owners.

 

Yeah. After reading some more after I asked that, I noticed he had never hired anyone. And never stepped out on his own.

 

I had an interesting interview one time a company was looking for a dispatcher. I have been around trucks all my life (father was a city driver in St. Paul) and I had programmed dispatching software for 4 years and had about 20 years in the drivers seat at that point. Had also been a business owner (owned a print shop for 9 years - 25 employees) so I figured would be an easy interview.

He asked me if a customer needed something and the driver refused to do it, what would I do? Customer service is important, but so is keeping a good driver, so I guess how I worked it out would depend on how good the driver was. Wrong answer. He said drivers, good, bad, somewhere in between come and go all the time. You can only keep the good ones so long before they find something better and the bad ones, well.... But a customer, even a pain the ### customer is where you make your money.

This guy had 30 years in the trade and had a successful company, so I would guess he knows the industry better than I do. In printing, finding customers isnt that hard, so you can be selective on who you work for. But in this business, the margins are so tight, you have to take what you can get.

So you have a good employee, treat him like gold, pay him well, benefits up the wazoo, and his mom gets sick and he wants to stay home with her and thanks for the job and hes gone. Doesnt matter how well you treat them, they will leave eventually. Or rather most will. My dad only worked for 1 company his entire life (not counting getting drafted in 1942), but thats few and far between.

 

I think @nightgunner learned another important lesson, don't expose too much of your business practices & procedures on an internet forum.

The nameless, faceless trolls will chew you up and will be contradictory, using outlandish and extreme points to shoot you down.

I've discovered this forum has a lot of good guys that you can learn from, but it's also full of straw men builders who love to tear them down.

 

I tip my hat...

At first I was like "lol...that's some gibberish"...

Then I thought "hmm, prolly some klingon"...

Then I squinted my eyes "is that heliographics?"...

Finally it hit me "dah-mn, @tucker is a genius after all"..

 

The way i see it with the ELDs in the truck . All hrs on the 70 are calculated so why cant carriers pay by the hr based on those Hrs calculated by the ELD.

 

That statement doesn’t throw up a red flag with anybody?