We have a guy here who started his own business the same way I'd start my own. He has older Ford F450 and F550 trucks. 3 of them. A F550 Convential with sling and under reach, and 2 rollbacks, a F450 and an F550. They are clean and neat with aluminum beds which I don't like, but good for Light Duty trucks. All are running 7.3 TD motors. None of the 6.0 or 6.4 junk motors. He's been in biz a year early this month. Now looking for a Medium Duty Conventional and/or Roll Back. He says once he has his 2 Medium Duty trucks, then it's all about maintaining the fleet and replacing the fleet with newer trucks 1 at a time in the next 5 years or so. But yeah, age doesn't seem to matter. Just clean, neat, everything in working order, and have all the equipment necessary to go with it is all guys really want. Commision is certainly the best way to pay drivers. In Scott's case, I can see how he'd want hourly or salary. Seems it's very rural where he works. He'd probably starve being on commission.
Speaking of which, we have one loser in the area that pays his noobs 25%. Another that starts out his experienced help at 27% for the most part, guys with a year to a few years of experience usually make 30%. 30% is the pretty standard rate. The seasoned good guys you'll hear some of them making 33%. The idea is, 33% for the driver, 33% for expenses, and 33% for profit. That's just a rule of thumb because most wrecker owners know 33% profit is hard to get. Actually probably more like 25-28% profit. Now it works out well if they are owner/drivers to where over 50% is their payday after all the bills are paid. So anyway, where I'm going with this, the manager and owner of the company I work had a talk with me last week. Wasn't even expecting it, but making 33% already, I wasn't expecting a raise. And it was even retroactive to back to the beginning of the current pay period start, They said Thanks for hanging out and not taking off when **** got bad with payroll and the mistakes that were made. I said, well yeah it hurt cuz I needed the cash, but I figured you guys would make it right and you did, so it's all good and I think we have things set up now that it won't happen again. They agreed and said, well, we've discussed the money the making for the company, you and your truck are making double the profit what the other guys are doing, so to keep you here and happy, we're raising you up to 35%. It's only 2% but still it adds up. I'll assure you, there isn't many around here making 35% at all.
Silly Rabbit!!
