Old Experience = No Experience ?

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MC Carrier LLC
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Fairchild Freight
Fairchild Freight
Phoenix, Arizona

 

The company has to do all the same paperwork for a rehire as they do for a new hire.

I-9, W2, background, mvr and drug test, sign company policy acknowledgement, benifits sign uup,etc. They have to give the driver a skills test. Even if they get it all done in one day, it's going to cost at least $500.

Then add in transportation, a hotel room, and paying the driver and we're easily pushing $1,000.

Then it takes a rehire a little bit of time to get their 'sea legs back ' and start running profitably.

 

Or that could just plan it and treat it like a leave of absence , like maternity leave or sick leave .
Then the re hire costs would be zero since they never left .

 

To do has its own costs. They still have to maintain the driver qualification file, even when the driver is on a leave of absence. They still gave to do a skills test and a drug test.

All that is doable, IF the driver has communicated his intentions. We have a guy who works 6-7 months then goes home to Greece for 2-3 months and comes back to work. He's done it for 7 years now.

There are always costs to be borne, the question is "do we want to pay for it?" In the op's case, he never set it up since he looks unreliable.

 

I like how you tell it like it is.