First Day No Call No Show

I have to say, you are the right kind of a guy that to have a fleet of trucks.

I'm sure you get your times that you want to bang your head up against the wall, but I get the feeling that you realize that it's going to happen and you just have to roll with it.

When I was Contracting I would have weeks that I made so much money it would stagger me. Then I would have weeks that it would rain or we would have breakdowns or whatever else.

Then at one point my main guy who drove for me decided he was going to teach one of the laborers how to drive, unknown to me and unauthorized by me.

So he has the laborer back the truck in they shut the truck off lock the doors and everybody goes home on a Friday.

On Sunday my phone starts ringing off the hook and I have to go down to the yard where my equipment was and here the laborer that backed the truck in never set the brake and left it in neutral. The truck rolled down the hill and crashed into somebody else's vehicle. The joys of employees!

It can definitely be a roller coaster but if you can handle the lows and you enjoy the highs and you can keep yourself in a good temperament through all of it that's great.

At this point in my life at least for the next few years, I'm not looking for any employees, LOL. I'm actually going to savor the fact that I can hopefully earn a good living and have more freedom in my schedule without the constraints of customers or employees.

I'm sure you're going to have many more Adventures, so keep the stories coming!

 

If you own your own company you'll experience every single human emotion...both good and bad...sometimes several times a day.
The only thing you won't be is bored. Sometimes boring would be good.

 

I have concluded that having employees only makes sense if you can also hire someone to manage them so you can stay far away.

If a highly efficient and successful small business person manages their own employees they will most certainly be disappointed with the commitment level, make less ROI and probably take years off his/her life.

 

This is what I dont like about people. I am the most reliable person on earth anyone that knows me knows it. If I say I will do something important you can bet your life savings on it I will get the job done. I wish I could find people like myself then I would hire drivers. Though there are too many lazy people out there.

 

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Well, 35 is the new 50 anymore.

 

I had a boss stand on my dockplate in Buffalo Assembly at Ford and point with a frown at less than a inch gap on one corner of my trailer. Now keeping in mind it's a very heavily padded periemter of the dock with a group of three 480 volt mains for that part of the building a foot from the trailer outside.

I pull forward and BOOM rammed the trailer against dock forcing it square and perfect. Half the bolts snapped.

Dockplate went up and over onto the trailer. Boss man said nothing even when assembly had stopped for a few minutes to trace the "BOOM' to him and I.

 

Good way to make sure you don't get quality drivers.

 

When you hire a new driver, what do you do to ensure that that individual is of high merit and worth the time to onboard?

 

Why? A quality driver will 1) have the money to pay for the test
2) know he’s going to pass it

If I was a driver I wouldn’t mind at all. I wouldn’t want a driver that objects to it. Heck I’ll even pay him double if he passes but I’m tired of being used

 

A quality driver will also expect the company to pay their own business expenses. If a company wanted me to cover their cost of doing business on litterly the very first time we interact, I'm not walking away, I'm running.

The first thought through my mind is what other company expenses will I be expected to pay for? No, hiring a driver is a business expense. If the company is unwilling to spend the money required then they don't need to be hiring a driver.