Is $104,000 a year a decent w2 salary for an experienced otr reefer driver

The reason behind the credit check is responsibility. It tends to reflect on character! If a person can't handle their own business, why would I want them to be a part of mine? Plus they are likey gonna be the guy who constantly calls and asks for money. Or maybe has a bad gambling problem and now has 6 figures of your equipment. I actually had to deal with this.. guy said the equipment got stolen off the truck.. found out from video he sold it. As far as salary goes, it tends to make most lazy. Why not stop a couple hours early? Ahhh, now they didn't make their next appointment. O'well, it all pays the same. Why bust ### if it's all the same in the end. Imo, start with a base mileage pay then up it after 90 days and offer bonus incentives. This gives them incentive to do more and therefore make more. I have buddy's who have gone the salary route and regretted it first month. One is actually going to fire a guy when he gets back with his truck in two weeks. Guy got lazy and now my buddy is losing money.

 

I just don't get anyone in this profession not being able to drive a manual transmission. You DRIVE for a living. One does not show up, to do IT work and say, "I can only work on an Apple laptop, I have no ability or desire to learn Dell or HP, nor did I decide to find a school, that would provide me a good education on all the equipment I would come across."

 

Ehhh...just as a quick counterpoint, if my current company had done a credit check on me at the time they hired me, it wouldn't have looked great. But I also had an ongoing lawsuit against my old company, because I'd been injured on the job, went four full months without pay, and was forced to live on credit cards. It wasn't my irresponsibility that got me into that, it was entirely unforeseen circumstances that ate through my emergency fund and snowballed.

In general I'm on board with you, but...well, I'm just glad they didn't look at my (since entirely repaired) credit back when they hired me.

 

An Apple store wouldn't expect you to know anything about repairing a PC.

If a fleet has nothing but automatics, it makes no difference whether anyone can drive a manual.

A mixed fleet, sure.

 

If you went to school, to do IT work and then only focused on Apple but were not guaranteed a job there.........

There is no excuse for people not knowing how to drive stick. Poor decision making skills and lack of foresight. When you go to automotive school, they don't JUST teach you Chevy V8s.

 

Dang I only have 1 year of experience. No automatic restriction. 1 for 2. So close.

 

While i do agree with most of this there are some exceptions. First i would look at bad credit and see WHY it is bad. If he had say 20 years of good history then 2 or 3 months of really bad history especially during say the recession or this covid crap early on then i would ask him WHY. If he say got injured, or went through a devorce or got whacked in the early days of covid then that is one thing. Not really someones fault if they get run over by a forklift and cant work for 6 months and run out of savings while healing enough to workm

Ita another thing if its long term bad choices.

As towards salary there are ways around it though in principle you are correct. Ways to correct it towards a reasonable performance level would be for example if you miss an apointment without a good reason give them a writeup for example or start at a lowish salary level. Honestly i prefer percentage myself. It keeps my salary high and i can tell how well i am doing.