Help... Cant find a company driver

I am on the other side of the coin. I am a good driver looking for a good, honest company. As you are looking for honest hard working drivers, I am looking a company that will allow me to work hard and honestly to provide for my family. It is really hard out there in this industry. Where do we all start to find good employees and employers, I don't know. If you would like I wouldn't mind connecting with you sometime and maybe you are the company that I am looking for and I am the driver that you are looking for.

bear-legs06 (Bear)

 

That is the hardest thing for a driver to do anymore, find a good company that knows how to treat a driver (could say can treat a human being right, because somehow drivers get rated less then a human being most of the time anymore..)

 

So what are you talking about, (if they drive good during the week)?
Do you have any perks that go with the job like insurance, profit sharing, fuel bonuses, and that kind of thing?

Do you ask them to run sort of legal or just run to git the run done, no matter what?

Whats your area of operation or do you run all 48?

You have my courosity up.

 

I want to work where you work. Care to share please?

 

Seems we scared the original Poster; jps, out of here. Hasn't been around for 2 weeks now. Guess he got scared when he was confronted with reality. oh well, reality is sometimes ugly.

jps, if you are still reading these posts here is some more reality to swallow and what it would take to get me to be your company driver.

1. With 4 months short of 5 yrs exp. I would want $0.41/mi, all miles. No Per Diem.

2. Mileage paid off the odometer, not hub. (And odometer better be accurate).

3. You let me fill out a W-4 for withholding.

4. You pay 7.65% S.S. and Medicare, I pay the other 7.65%.

5. Truck needs to have PrePass, EZ-Pass, I-Pass, PikePass.

6. Truck; if so equipped, needs to be able to go at least 69 mph.

7. Decent ins. with premiums of $30 or less per week for medical and dental (Single). Vision ins., no more than $2/wk. $10,000 Life for free. Short Term Disability free with 7 day waiting period. Long Term after 6 mos. at 67% of Gross Pay. Passenger ins. no more than $10/mo.

8. All no-touch freight.

9. Detention Pay after 2 hrs at $15/hr. (Even if Appt has window).

10. Layover Pay at $100/day after first 24 hrs. $150/day after 48 hrs.

Now where I would not drive:

No NE from MD on up.
No Florida, CA, OR, or WA.
No Chicago, MI, or IL.
No I-95 from Ruther Glen, VA northward.
No OH except Oh Tnpk.

I don't need weekends off cause I stay out 3 to 6 weeks at a time. But when I do want timeoff, it comes at the rate of 6.5 days out = 1 day off.

If you aren't scared off after reading this, PM me and we can talk and iron things out.

 

Ledbetter............looks like about half of the USA that you wont drive. LOL

 

So basicly you just want to drive where??? around the bottom of the country?


JPS
I'd say give him the com check, make sure it's not for more than you owe him for the run. get it delivered and get the truck back and give tht guy the big boot. I mean sure, people get sick that's a tough call to make even though I'm sure its bs. but what's with the com check??? come on now.

I honestly think it's the wages. you won't get od drivers for those wages. If the money ws better I'd help ya. oh, but only if the truck hasn't been smoked in, or at least profesionally cleaned.

 

First and foremost, a few revisions...

I'll edit Ledbetter's "list"...

>1. With 4 months short of 5 yrs exp. I would want $0.41/mi, all miles. No Per Diem.
2. Mileage paid off the odometer, not hub. (And odometer better be accurate)."

1&2. Miles should be ALL miles a wheel turns, yes, even going around the big Petro trying to find a parking space for the night when the place seems full. (Yeah, a guy could block the drive axles up and leave it in gear, running, all night but that would be a 'capital' offense, if you know what I mean.) -=I=- would NEVER do such a thing but the truck also requires a driver when it needs to be backed. AND $.42/travelled mile MINIMUM BASE PAY, fuel/performance bonuses negotiable.

>3. You let me fill out a W-4 for withholding.
>4. You pay 7.65% S.S. and Medicare, I pay the other 7.65%.
3&4. Yes, we do the IRS thing. I have already been screwed on the 1099 thing when the pay was not enough to save anything to give to the IRS

>5. Truck needs to have PrePass, EZ-Pass, I-Pass, PikePass.
5. This is a 'given'. It saves you AND me money in the long term. Most tollways give a significant discount when not using cash.
...not to mention the time saved by driving past the coop instead of into the coop (AND $ saved).

>6. Truck; if so equipped, needs to be able to go at least 69 mph.
6. BS, truck needs to be able to do the speed limit, AT LEAST, anywhere it is operated. There's that 'going-with-the-flow-of-traffic' thing that all of us with enough experience know about.

>7. Decent ins. with premiums of $30 or less per week for medical and dental (Single). Vision ins., no more than $2/wk. $10,000 Life for free. Short Term Disability free with 7 day waiting period. Long Term after 6 mos. at 67% of Gross Pay. Passenger ins. no more than $10/mo.
7. Amen

>8. All no-touch freight.
8. This means just that. If a load requires a lumper it does NOT require any $$$ out of my pocket. Shipper-load, consignee-unload is the goal anyway.

>9. Detention Pay after 2 hrs at $15/hr. (Even if Appt has window).
>10. Layover Pay at $100/day after first 24 hrs. $150/day after 48 hrs.
9&10. $21 for #9. #10 should be $150 per day. If dispatch tells me on Friday noon to wait until Monday AM to get a return load the clock starts Friday at noon, NOT Saturday at noon.

>Now where I would not drive:
>No NE from MD on up.
>No Florida, CA, OR, or WA.
>No Chicago, MI, or IL.
>No I-95 from Ruther Glen, VA northward.
>No OH except Oh Tnpk.
No offense to Ledbetter but...
The truck needs to be run where the greatest revenue is. If this means NE then the truck should go there. Having O/O experience myself has proven this to me. AND, I live near Chicago. If you can't get around in Chicago, you can't get around anywhere.

Also, an older truck does NOT mean more downtime/expense/I-won't-drive-it. The key here is PREVENTIVE-MAINTENANCE. If stuff is repaired before it breaks it saves everybody money!

I don't need the fanciest/shiniest rig out there. Certain things are necessary but they're more safety related than comfort related.
Hood, power(big motor and light foot means fuel savings), decent interior, GUAGES not idiot lights, ALL mirrors heated, A/C, big enough sleeper so a driver has SOME storage space/room for cooler/microwave, etc. (yeah, needs an inverter or wiring with capacity to attach an inverter.) A driver's seat that does not cause me to need chiropractic therapy. A power window on the right side. I could go on for a while but I think I might be running out of space.

And get rid if those stupid low-profile tires. All they have ever done is make things spin faster to do the same work as normal tires do.

(more later, maybe)

 

i think your first mistake was to hire someone from these boards. you said it yourself when i asked you about the background checks. you said something about "bogus" references and experience, so what do you do....?? you hire from here....?? c'mon now man.......what were you thinking....?? you obviously did NOT do a full check on this guy. you just wanted to get your freight moved, in all reality...........

as for being sick in all reality people are human, and they do get sick, but........

then there's the comchek thing................i think he wanted the money because he's about to fly the coop.............get rid of him. if he can't wait for the "normal" pay day, then if nothing else at all, make sure that you cut his check for the balance of what you owe him only. DO NOT give out cash advances towards his "future paycheck" as there may be no "future" from him at all. i say cut your losses now and be done with him.......

and for your "hiring pleasure", i wouldn't recommend any forum to which to choose from. once burnt, once learnt...............