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Pulled my tarps out they got about 2 inches of crud on the top of them for not being used lol

 

Ok tell me what im doing wrong! On the cwp I show up 30 minutes early and hit my arrive button. Do my thing when im ready to leave I push my depart button and it wants to know why im late ft. I hit my depart on the app. Show up for my next load and it shows on the cwp no stops planned. Ft go to the app and it shows my ariavle???

 

Well I guess its time to move out of our house we rent. Our electric bill is above $300 every month lol

 

If that happens and you can get the IRS to agree that you are wrongly classified as a contractor then the person who paid you on the 1099 will end up paying your taxes, plus fines for misclassification.

The rules on employee vs contractor and not black and white and generally several conditions have to be met to establish which case applies, not just one. If you lease a truck to a company it is for legal purposes their truck, they leased it from you and they can say what the truck needs to do. Don't confuse leasing the truck with what most people do and provide themselves as the driver also. Mercer leases the truck and you provide "a" driver, not necessarily yourself. The most general rule to establish contractor status is whether you are invested in the situation and could lose money, i.e. on maintenance & repairs, cost of operation, etc. To pay a driver in your truck where you pay everything on the truck and give him/her a percentage is clearly an employer/employee relationship and has burned many a truck owner. The driver has "no skin in the game" so to speak.

This is a complicated situation. Look at the lawsuits between FedEx delivery drivers and the company, the suits have gone both ways depending on the state they filed in. Cali of course usually sides with the drivers being employees.

When talking about trucks you also have to consider Federal Motor Carrier Leasing Regulations which somewhat contradict general IRS guidelines.

 

Electric bills can get crazy in some areas. Before we left cali, it was common for our electric bill in june july aug and sept to top 700 bucks a month. Now in spokane we rarely see a 200 bill.

 

ours is high because of the place we live in. Rent is cheap $500 but the other bills are just a killer. The house isn't Energy Efficiency at all. The AC/Heat runs almost all the time to keep the place around 70-72 so its really hurting. last month was a $419 bill this month like 365 lol...

 

A good insulation job will do wonders. My folks live south of you just outside Ft Smith and their bill is usually 160 ish a month during the summer.

 

Not sure. I had the same thing happen to me Monday and had my coordinator do my depart call. Unsure what the deal is but if it does it on this next one I'll ring the IT guys phone.

 

A lot of that will depend on demand. Between the growth in the economy, elogs tightening capacity and drivers of all kinds retiring/leaving it will take a while to bring rates back down. I'm not saying we'll see $3-4 a mile this winter, but I don't believe anyone will struggle to average $1.70 a rolling mile if they play it right.

The real wild card is oil price. If that creeps on up some more to get the oilfields busy again, you'll see another restriction in supply of available trucks. So if oil breaches $80 a barrel between now and April 2019, this year's rates will be cheap in comparison to next year's.

 

i've offered to do a remodel on the inside long as he took the supply off rent. i would do labor and all for free but he won't lol