% pay fuel hauler

Whomever is first to respond, please tell me how many of you are company owners who have to look at the bottom line to even keep an employee. Second tell me what you make hourly and what your company charges per hour. Also tell me what the truck payment, trailer payment, workmans comp and liability insurance along with full coverage auto for the company is. Also tell me what tax bracket the company falls into along with unemployment benefit insurance they maintain for workers. So quick to say what's wrong, please one of you any of you that responded give me these numbers please.

 

My family has been in the trucking biz for over 40 years. How many years do u have in it?

 

I didn't say your family. How many trucks do you own and run. I have been in 4 years and have 19 trucks. Also full service diesel repair that maintains over 100 trucks for other companies. I am 32 years old and built it all from scratch by myself. Started with one old 77 Peterbilt and a 1956 belly dump.

 

Didn't answer any of the other questions either, an owner would know those answers

 

High standard llc. 2138817 mc 744481 look it up.

 

Want my p and l sheet to?

 

If you can't afford to pay your employees fairly, then you shouldn't be in business. Trying to justify the piece work pay as the only way you can make it is not a valid excuse. You're worried about a driver cheating you out of a few minutes of time? What about the piece work driver who's in a hurry and kills someone? Making your living on the backs of others is just plain wrong. Maybe you should consider another line of work. Hourly pay with overtime is the only way that myself and other safe drivers will ever work.

 

Ok so you are a driver with no idea about bottom line. Generally my drivers make more than most hourly paid guys in a day. On average they are at about the 25 an hour range. It's the same as paying by the mile, get paid for what you accomplish. I know there's a bunch of liberals that think they deserve something and companies owe them, and there's the problem with society. Welfare abusers things of that nature come straight from the entitlement I hear to many people talk about. I used to pay by the hour when I was being paid by the hour and not the load, and we still have jobs that pay by the hour and in that case so do my guys. My guys run an average of 350 miles a day or so and make around 230 dollars a day for that give or take depending on tonnage. Do the Math on that per mile. And that's from 6 am to 4pm. So in retrospect before shooting your mouths off maybe get the details. Plenty of people pay by the hour in our business and it's generally 15 an hour or less and I give my guys the option to be hourly and no one takes it. My trucks are governed so the guys cannot speed. I see no one with a valid point, just an opinion of I the driver deserve more and the companies are all out to get me and pay me less and be unsafe. Without the companies there are no drivers or employees.

 

You give your employees the option to be hourly and no one takes it?

I find that hard to believe.......9 out of 10 drivers would prefer an hourly wage as opposed to %, Things happen, Waiting to load/unload, Breakdowns, inspections etc.

I get it, Costs involved in operating a business, Profit/Loss statements can be brutal, Its a never-ending open checkbook.

Heres 1 thing I have Learned over the years.......An Hourly paid driver is a Safe,Happy and Loyal driver, Turnover costs are lowered, And its a Winning situation for all parties....

Some people Know this and are still too Stubborn to Pay on that kind of scale.

your business, Do as you please. I initially posted on this thread because we thought you were ALSO a fuel hauling company

 

I pay my drivers if the truck does breakdown or if there is more than one hour of wait time for any given reason, like jobs on hold or pits on hold for who knows what. We do all our own maintenance and repair and I mean all 100 percent with our own road service so downtime is at a very minimum if any. I have almost no turnover rate. Most my guys have been with me for a good while, I am still growing so sifting through new drivers that can't show on time or whatever the case may be is tough but there's always a good one somewhere.