It will be fine
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Most of my drivers make in the mid 20s/hr if you break it down by hour. They get health benefits, 2 weeks paid vaca, paid holidays, average 40 hours a week. Retail is dying, there aren’t going to be as many unskilled jobs available when brick and mortar continues to dissolve.I know you know your industry well, so I don’t mean to question you, but don’t you think with the way the winds of change are blowing, that you’re being a little optimistic. Retail stores like Target are trending towards the $15 an hour mark. The shipping industry is trending towards that same benchmark, from the opposite direction. You don’t foresee any trouble keeping personnel when people can go to Target and make the same amount of money that they could at Ground? At Target, you’ll spend half of your shift on your iPhone and smoking behind the dumpster. At Ground, you’ll have no life other than your job.
It all depends on the contractor and how they run their operation. I have high expectations and my guys get paid well when they meet them. If they are the type of person that wants to lay around doing nothing they can go somewhere and get that $15/hr. Some contractors will take the crap drivers, pay crap and get crap productivity. I don’t think they’ll last long with the changes rolling out in the Ground network. Our pay per stop is going down to remain the cheapest carrier, productivity per truck will have to increase to make up for it. If your workforce is disgruntled slobs that you pay poorly you won’t make it.