Question for Drivers about Part-Time Work?

Answer to question 2 your cdl is valid as long as you have a cdl and don't let it expire.But you also need to register your med card with dmv and if that expires your cdl gets downgraded to a regular DL and once you register your med card it immediated goes back to CDL.

 

1. There are companies that rent trailers. Monthly fee plus hub miles. Varies too widely to quote here.

2. The CDL is good until revoked by traffic infractions or your physical runs out.

3. Depends on the work. Hubby and I won't roll for anyone for less than 57cpm. And if you're asking us to give up a day off... well, your rate just went through the roof. Most guys... solos... 45 cpm maybe. Gotta be better than their day jobs.

4. Depends on what you're doing. Load, unload, multi stop/drop, detention pay, on duty pay, breakdown pay... just depends. If they load or tarp the load, they should get paid more. If they're in NYC or the Burrows those guys get per trip PITA pay.

I'd like to give you better info, but your questions are very vague. Maybe if we had more info, we could give you more specific helpful advice.

 

1. If you have an in with a local carrier odds are they would give you a better price. Most of the big boys that exclusively rent trailers and equipment go by the month
Some of them will only rent trailers and trucks to businesses with 1mil gross revenue or more. So if you can get a buddy deal, jump on it. You might also try local owner ops too. Don't forget the insurance. Most places won't let you leave the lot without it. And how are you running your authority?

3. For local runs like that drivers are normally paid by the hour. Find out what locals and yard dogs make in your area and bump it up a bit. In Columbus they make 18, so I'd offer say 20 or 22. For side work in any trade same day cash is going to be preferred, but it will be tough to keep it legal payroll wise unless you cut them a 1099 at the end of the year. Putting folks on payroll for things like this I don't have a ton of experience with. But pay weekly. No matter what. Pay more for reliable and safe drivers. Cull the herd regularly.

Hope that helps.

 

Oh and PS... there arr threads here about how to get your own authority. I'd read those. You'll need that to put an unaffiliated truck on the road.

Also try to give your drivers a full day of work 3 or 4 runs. Make it worth their while. At the same time drivers are going to have to manage their HOS so they still have enough left to run legal for their day job.

 

Aside from the obstacle of obtaining motor carrier authority, IFTA, and all the bells and whistles involved with hiring CDL drivers (drug/alcohol pre-employment tests, background searches, pulling abstracts for insurance company etc) you may also find many employee drivers are bound by contract not to work for other carriers while employed full time.

Every carrier I've worked time for has this clause in their employee contract because of the difficulty maintaining 2 sets of logbooks if a driver is employed part time driving elsewhere.

If it's cash you're talking about, there's no way I personally would risk running with no authority, filing logs for work that wasnt totally. 100% above ground. It would be the driver's peril if pulled into a scale house or stopped by a state trooper without proper authority .

My old company didn't get our new IFTA stickers to us in time one year and I was left holding a $400 fine, despite being able to prove that the fuel permit was in place and that it was just the sticker we were missing. They obviously paid it, but any blemish on my good name is too many.

 

It sounds like you're asking if a carrier can hire a spare or part time driver? Of course they can, many companies "slip seat" drivers on the weekend. (Put a part time driver in a truck that is sitting because its usual driver is on home time, vacation, etc)

It's very common that companies do not want their equipment to "lay fallow" for a few days when it could be generating income. "Dedicated equipment" (ie no slip seating) is a retention tool used to attract and keep drivers, since most of us don't want a stranger using our coffee machine, wearing boots in the truck, sleeping on our sheets, etc and don't want to have to pack up the truck each and every time it will be parked for a few hours, a night, or a few days.

My first job would slip seat trucks with part time weekend guys to punish drivers who wanted to go home too often. My second company didn't allow part time or local drivers to drive the OTR trucks but there were probably 30 drivers sharing 12 trucks, so the day cabs moved 24 hours a day. Sometimes they switched trucks in the middle of a shift.

My current job, the only drivers who ever even sit in our truck are the Ryder service techs when they wheel it into/out of the shop when we are home.