Where can I find good drivers?

Remember this: you are competing with almost every other trucking company in the country for drivers.

I think we can apply the rules of supply and demand in this situation - the supply of good drivers, good record and 3yrs XP who aren't working but who are looking, is really low, and the demand is really high - therefore, the wages go up.

The supply of drivers between 0-2 yrs XP with a mediocre to good record is a little bit low, but they're out there.

I have 3 years XP with a perfect record and would not step foot in a truck without at least $800/week guaranteed even if I'm sitting on my butt half the week, but really I'd like to make at least $1,000/week, preferably AFTER taxes - as a company driver.


Depending on what my current boss wants to do with his truck after he lost his run this past month, I might be willing to do your run, I live in MI, but it's got to be a dedicated round-trip run, and has to pay $1,000/week after tax and home at least by Saturday morning. Contact me if interested. But I still might be going O/O in a month or two.

 

We must be working for the same outfit. I don't back up to loading doors neither. I don't even open or close doors.

 

Reading this thread is discouraging, I don't mean to sound nasty. But the idea you even have to ask if the pay is enough? You can do the math better than anyone, if you knew your own company, down time turnaround etc.
Ask yourself, would you wont to be away from home all week for $ X.
It's like "America", chasing its bottom line straight to hell and can't even see why China own's us.
Again, sorry if it sounds like I'm being hard on ya, but have you ever drove to Philly?
I'm 50 and have about 20 years on the railroad, shoreline's mostly, looking at trucking as an option.
What I see in your question is from the perspective of twenty years of putting up with hands off spreadsheet management, so forgive me.

We used to take 100 plus mineral cars to Rochester with no problem's, everyone made money. They, meaning your counterpart, decided
to cut costs. Crew members from 4 down to 3 then 2, get rid of the caboose. Then wonder why the work didn't get done.
Then the NEW "Vice President" started going after people, drug testing, if ya wanna keep your job, blah blah blah, that sort of thing.
I was a kid, jobs were easy to come by then. I figured if I was gonna get yelled at I could just stay home and help Dad bail hay.

But "they" ended up having everyone quit. The VP got fired too eventually. "They" probably spent twice what they saved over the next year or so training new people. Paying for derailments, lost revenue, stuff like that. We even heard the guy who scrapped the caboose never paid 'em either.

So if you can connect the dots between, say.... A four man train crew in the early '80's, and $0.32 cpm in the new world order. Your a better man than Vice President Druin was.


Go drive to New Jersey yourself and figure it out.

 

$.32 per mile and 1500 to 2000 per week with no benefits. That's your problem.

 

Run your ad thru your state ran emplyment/unemployment site,

if at all possible.


Filters out alot of the undesirables.

 

I'm a new CDL school graduate and I've been offered rates with higher than .32cpm including benefits with a minimum of 2,500mi per week. I think you already knew what the problem was before you even posted here. Just like everyone has said before me all of the bottom feeder companies or even the companies that hire student drivers are able to beat you out in pay.

Take this offer I got for example. I was offered a dedicated account 5 state run with 2yr old equipment, .36cpm, 2,500mi per week minimum, health/vision/dental/401k/tuition reimbursement and $150 unload pay per stop. The unloading might be a deal breaker for some but I don't mind it.

I didn't take that job either.

As you can see there for me with only having limited experience your offering junk compared to what a student fresh out of school can get and your looking for experienced drivers to boot.

 

You sound discouraged, friend. Yes, we know that a thousand a week is a lot more money than you want to pay. But, good drivers have an advantage: You never need to hold a good drivers hand. It's like shooting a gun...point and fire. Any problems come up (and problems DO come up) and the driver has the ability to think his way through and solve the vast majority of the problems IF they are not issues with breakdowns. You will make good, steady money with a good driver in your truck.

Or you can go the route that you are thinking of, and get what you pay for. Driver doesn't check the fluids, which means the truck quits on the side of the road ($$$$$ for the service truck). Driver is sloppy and you get hit with cargo claims ($$$$). Driver is late all the time. Driver sells fuel for the extra money that you are not paying. Driver applies for a job, works long enough to pay whatever bill he wanted to pay and then abandons your truck in a crack alley. Or your driver decides to make extra money on the side and bootleg some illegal product and gets busted. You lose everything and you pay higher insurance premiums.

Why don't you drive one of the trucks, instead of trying to cheat an unsuspecting driver out of a decent wage? We all know that's what you're really trying to do. Wait...you can't, because you have a family and obligations to care for, right?

 

Big downer with this proposition is the overall net income, if the income is not at least 1k net a person is selling themselves short.