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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 1987645" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Mr. Trakker. Thank you for your candor and honesty. That $650 per week you stated is about the average nationwide but when your employees start getting that 2.5% of gross income penalty for no actual health insurance they will be looking elsewhere. In addition when and I'm sure you know this you convert to ISPthe days of Ground bringing in company paid temps and company paid rental trucks to cover volume spikes will be over. That will reguire you to keep extra trucks on site and a list of people you can call out on a moments notice to help cover you. Either that or pay them a retainer to stay available because nobody is going to sit by waiting for the phone to ring. The Ground business model does not exist for the purpose of creating equity for contractors. It exists entirely for the purpose of providing trucking and labor at below average market costs for purpose of maximizing returns for Fedex. You as a contractor have only one customer and as long as you continue to feed it's addiction to cheap trucking and cheap labor you will be alright but once the additional overhead required by ISP kicks in you may discover that the addiction has become impossible to placate especially if you can no longer find people willing to work for fast food wages. Deciding if the risk/reward ratio will be satisfactory in the future is the tough decision you alone must make.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 1987645, member: 58386"] Mr. Trakker. Thank you for your candor and honesty. That $650 per week you stated is about the average nationwide but when your employees start getting that 2.5% of gross income penalty for no actual health insurance they will be looking elsewhere. In addition when and I'm sure you know this you convert to ISPthe days of Ground bringing in company paid temps and company paid rental trucks to cover volume spikes will be over. That will reguire you to keep extra trucks on site and a list of people you can call out on a moments notice to help cover you. Either that or pay them a retainer to stay available because nobody is going to sit by waiting for the phone to ring. The Ground business model does not exist for the purpose of creating equity for contractors. It exists entirely for the purpose of providing trucking and labor at below average market costs for purpose of maximizing returns for Fedex. You as a contractor have only one customer and as long as you continue to feed it's addiction to cheap trucking and cheap labor you will be alright but once the additional overhead required by ISP kicks in you may discover that the addiction has become impossible to placate especially if you can no longer find people willing to work for fast food wages. Deciding if the risk/reward ratio will be satisfactory in the future is the tough decision you alone must make. [/QUOTE]
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