Where can I find good drivers?

Pay a flat wage per week or a straight percentage, like 28%. Use toll/scale transponders to get toll discounts. Govern the trucks to 55mph to save fuel, but explain that's how you are able to pay above avg wages. Running short haul in that area, a 65 mph truck won't avg much higher a speed than a 55mph truck. Find a group health plan or at least help drivers find an individual plan. Individual plans cost more, so they need to make more. Healthcare costs bankrupt families everyday. This is just as important as pay when looking at where to work.

If you can't find experienced drivers, then you have to make a few. Offer to buy out the tuition fees that have low time drivers locked into low pay jobs at places like CRST, Stevens, England, and the like.

Basically, get inventive, and find ways others haven't.

Dedicated LTL reefer, home every weekend, or 4 days on, 3 off, with group insurance sounds like something a driver would jump at if he's stuck in a truck making crap mony, eating noodles, and can't keep a woman around.

 

since we are getting a little snarky now, and you asked how much others are getting per mile...subtracting out the 32 cpm the driver is making, as well as 8 cpm for maintenance, after fuel, taxes, tolls, and fees, how much are you making per mile? ill wager its well above 53.3 cpm. anything over a 60/40 split of net is not quite equitable imo. you can pay whatever you want to as long as you get takers, (and you were pretty quick to change the ridiculous 15-2000 to up to 3000) but you cant then blame the society for "lots of jobs, and no one wants to work" when you pay bottom feeder wages, and dont even offer the medical benefits that come from working for the bottom feeders.

 

Rookies should be getting over .40 with lots of paid time off and paid holidays with cheap benes

 

Good drivers need to be taking home close to $ 1000 a week after taxes, so that's what you need to pay if you want quality drivers.

 

So your pay is low and your trucks break down frequently. That explains the low miles.

 

Recruit from a CDL school near you. They will probably stick with you for 3-6 months & then move on. The experienced drivers can make much more than you are able to offer. Post jobs on Careerbuilder also.

 

Your right .56cpm oh and I get paid as soon as my front steer axle cross's over from the street to the driveway none of this first 2 hours free BS.. I go right on the clock at 23.00 dollars an hour..it pays to stay away from bottom feeder companies

 

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Try these threads.

 

These are the things ALL drivers should be able to do.Nothing special here

 

Are you sure you want good drivers? A good driver is going to command over a thousand a week AFTER taxes. He's going to put down lots of miles, so you may want to look into getting trucks that are only a year or two old if you can't swing a new one. For 32 cpm, you're looking for a driver that can't get work anywheres else. There's a couple drivers that post on here that failed drug tests, or got DUIs 5 years ago. They have to take what they can get. 32 cpm was low two decades ago.