What would a yard spotter charge per hour?

Jose c amaya · Dec 1, 2016

bubba T said: ↑

I am looking for some opinions here... we have a need for 2 yard spotters on our drop yard. I am looking for someone with a single axle tractor to work 12 hour shifts. they would be spotting trailers to the dock and pulling loaded trailers to our drop yard which is 1.5 miles away. Typically the spotters drive 30 - 40 miles per day/night, move 20 to 25 trailers per shift and do yard checks listing an inventory of trailers & their location. The trailer loads weigh an average of 20,000 lbs. so a single axle would be fine. The truck will have to be street legal to travel to the yard. Yard tractors are not required as we presently use older city tractors now. We use swing door trailers so the Ottawa type yard tractors don't help much. My drivers prefer using old city trucks since they have to climb down to close doors anyway. What is a fair price for this type work and how should it pay...PER HOUR ?? for driver and their own truck. We are no longer going to use company employees and are considering using owner operators for this shuttling.
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Jose c amaya · Dec 1, 2016

bubba T said: ↑

yeah, I think our company is trying to get away from using their own company drivers for this. I was curious what owner operators would charge to do something along this line of work AND furnish their own tractor. The OTTAWA type yard tractors don't work very well here. We tried them and with the climbing up & down to open & shut the trailer doors it was a real PIA. Also the landing gear must be raised extremely high to clear the storm drain and it feels really scary to raise the trailer that high. I know there are several companies that specialize in yard spotting but, I don't want to call one of them yet ..I don't have time to listen to their sales pitch! I just want a rate right now.
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Jose c amaya · Dec 1, 2016

To bubba t
I'm jose and ones again im here ask you to give me this great chance im staring my own busines in this yard spotter ..us a told you whike ago those spotter companies out there will charge you over 650 and up per hour i will do it for less $550 help me to star my business i have over 20 years experience on trucking companies

Pintlehook · Dec 1, 2016

Jose c amaya said: ↑

To bubba t
I'm jose and ones again im here ask you to give me this great chance im staring my own busines in this yard spotter ..us a told you whike ago those spotter companies out there will charge you over 650 and up per hour i will do it for less $550 help me to star my business i have over 20 years experience on trucking companies
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