How Much Does it Cost a Company to Hire a Driver?

That makes me doubt following the advice of "submit the application first and then call with your follow-up questions so that they already know who you are."
Looks like the courteous thing to do would be to just fire off all the questions right off the bat, before you make them spend $2500 in vain, just because their website didn't say "No APU"

 

Wow! So roughly $300 dollars. That's a pretty big discrepancy to the $2500 quoted above.

 

Here's a question to all you employers:

Would you prefer that a potential applicant call or email your recruiter and ask about all their doubts first, or would you prefer them to submit the application first?

 

I can't believe paying your office employee to process that paperwork would add an extra $2200 to the cost of that one driver applicant.

Yes I did read the rest of your post. However, if my understanding is correct, espressolane was focusing on processing the paperwork/backround reports for the applicant.

Your total figure of all costs considered is in a completely different ballpark than espressolane's.

 

Only call last if I'm already 100% sure I want to work for you and think that I will be a good fit?

I think this is a less confusing answer. So basically if I have any doubts, call before submitting the application?

I'm just trying to put myself in your shoes. If it were my company I would not want to have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to process an applicant's paperwork, if that applicant is later going to find out something that my recruiter didn't communicate properly or something that wasn't listed on the website, and that something ends up being a dealbreaker for the applicant. I would spend the hundreds or thousands to have no employee.

 

economy of scale