Insufficient pay stems more from consistency than dollar amount. Swings in drivers’ paychecks stem from items outside their control: Mistakes, traffic, weather, etc. Detention and layover pay are examples of mechanisms created to smooth out the bumps but rarely make up for true amount of lost opportunity.
You have driver scorecards and ELDs to measure and track driver performance in more detail than most office jobs – any reason that drivers can’t be on a salary with a bonus structure besides your ops team?
