I have seen people say no to taking a 1099 job

I misunderstood your original post. When you said "company dry van" I was thinking company tractor and trailer. Completely different than the OP's situation. An O/O on 1099 is the norm when leased on to a company, as you are. There are many companies, as you well know, that hire drivers as "indepent contractors", and skirt tax laws. Sounds like you have a great company to lease on to. Very few in your position are making $2.50+ per mile. Most are lucky to get half of that. Thanks for the response.

 

You're welcome, and thank you. We do pull a lot of hazmat loads and liquid tote tanker loads, which tend to bump up the rates pretty decently. One thing though. There's drivers here with extra trucks driven by other drivers who are also typically working on a 1099, and from what I'm told, those no-equipment-owning drivers usually get like 20%-40% of the check.

 

Are you an O/O?

 

Yes, It is critical to remember the difference between an OO and a company driver in regard to 1099s. I refuse to get drawn into the legality debate about paying a company driver that drives a company truck being paid as a contractor and it's not germane to this topic. Most OOs are paid via 1099s.

 

Yeah

 

I know. But the OP doesn't. And people keep telling the OP that 1099 is inherently bad, which isn't true.

 

At $1200 per week, I agree.

 

1099 in and of itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The stigma comes from all of these Chicago outfits that rip drivers off. They’re all 1099, want the driver to work like a company driver, deduct “escrow” for who knows what and then refuses to pay the driver correctly. Then, when the driver quits, they keep the escrow money by making up crap like “the truck was dirty, or torn up” or whatever comes to their mind.

Obviously, if you’re an O/O you’re 1099. But again, it’s these unscrupulous outfits that take advantage of under educated yahoos that’ll sign up for things that most of us know are too good to be true.

Then, next thing you know they grab the bait and find a big old treble hook in it just like a big old Mississippi mud cat!