Yeah I noticed Craig's list wanted ads for those subcontractors who won't go past their maximum stop threshold via various temp agencies.They bring in hourly temp drivers who gets less cargo and stress, but pays better than the subcontractors.
Is it that way in your depressed area, bacha?
Until recent years whenever there was a volume spike the terminal would fit the bill for temp agency supplied manpower and when the subcontractor's per diem was divided into a hourly wage the hourly wage of the terminal temp exceeded it by sometimes quite a bit and it was a very serious point of contention.
But when my station converted to ISP the TM there now will not under any way shape or form run terminal funded temps. He simply throws it back onto the 4 remaining ISP contractors to figure out what to do.In turn all they could do was to hire people as full time ride along's or part timers in the hope that would come out when they needed them. Some times they would come out and other times they landed better offers or simply left the area all together.
Now if you have small number of routes having to keep full time people around with no route just to cover your expletive deleted in many cases that extra full time man is pretty much taking the contractor's pay home with him.