I'm considering hiring a driver for my truck.
If you read this thread: http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/a...ullhaulin.html, then you'll know what I'm doing right now. Meanwhile, my truck is parked in a shed. I'm considering leasing it on with Fikes or any other O/O only company, and then hire a driver for it. He/she will have a lot of freedom driving my truck as they will be choosing their loads and deciding their hometime without any input from me and basically running the truck as an O/O without the headaches of actually being one, and that brings up a concern.
What I'm concerned about is the driver having the all-to-common company driver mentality of "drive the wheels off of it; who cares about the revenue per mile as long as I'm getting miles, miles, miles." If I have a driver choosing cheap loads and driving lots of deadhead miles knowing they're going to get paid no matter what, then I'll be broke in a hurry, and I don't want that. I could pay a % of the load's revenue which would entice a driver to choose higher paying loads. But, I still have the problem of possibly getting a driver that doesn't understand how to calculate deadhead into the equation, that doesn't understand determining freight volume in an area that a load is going into, or that doesn't understand anything that comes with having to drive the truck profitably.
For those of you with drivers, how do you get around these problems? Are you choosing the driver's loads and dispatching them (forced dispatch), or do you make sure they know how to run a truck profitably and then let them do what they want? Do you pay drivers CPM like most other companies, or do you pay them on a percent basis? Are your trucks leased to a carrier, or are you running with your own authority?