Hiring drivers. (No Smoking).

"Compensation based on fuel mileage", so what are the trucks governed at? What states do you operate in that you'll never have a head wind or cross wind

 

"What's the big deal, it's just cigarettes?"
Except smoking is more important than that job?

EVERYBODY is a slave to something. EVERYBODY wears a uniform.

 

Nonsmokers don’t want to get in a truck after someone has smoked in it; it’s as simple as that. Read Smartway’s ad on the link posted by the OP: they use part time drivers and other non-forced dispatch drivers, so I’m guessing that they don’t have dedicated trucks. That’s probably a pretty good business model. And I know from my own experience that a clean non-smoked-in truck with no cigarette burns in the seat sells better when I replace it. So, we don’t hire smokers either as drivers or operators.

 

It is discrimination against smokers. I don’t want to pay your higher health insurance and life insurance benefits premiums, and I don’t want $2 million dollars worth of trucks and equipment smelling like an ashtray, and I don’t want a $225 an hour dozer stopped so the operator can get off and take a smoke. So I discriminate.

 

Splitting the fleet means the company is paying for trucks they can't use for all of their routes & drivers. My last company decided they would designate all company vehicles non-smoking. If drivers wanted to keep smoking their insurance was increased by 5 or 600 bucks a year. It's their truck they can decide. They also gave anyone wanting it free smoking-cessation gums/patches & phone counseling.