So lets break this down.
1) I can afford to pay a driver $650,000 a year to deliver goods. 2) So If I wasn't previously paying that amount then the pure extra profit made would have been approximately $600,000 per year 3) or $600,000 x the number of drivers I need.....
Wow, I wonder why so many people are so pissed on what they are being paid when compared to profit margins
And before the shills kick in, Truck drivers have marketable skills. They're not burger flippers!
I looked at that company earlier. you must be an owner of the truck to work there.
plus its oil field so the truck will get beaten to shit. not to mention the parts shortage for trucks.
most lease their trucks to have the warrenties. that can easily be a 800 to 1500 a week truck payment.
the average lease or owner makes 150k a year and after expenses they take home maybe 30k. roughly 120k goes into truck expenses.
with the oil field work theyre offering you can assume the yearly operating cost of the truck is 200 to 250k.
there is no truck driver shortage.
what we have and have always had is a truck driver pay shortage.
truckers are also the only industry where the workers have no minimum wage or pay protections. thats how companies get away with it.
You can't necessarily extrapolate a week's earnings over the course of a year. A trailer full of videogame consoles a week before Black Friday or Christmas is worth 5x any other time of year. Commodity prices, demand, seasonality all impact what they can pay a driver.
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