In order for this needless and dumb multi route contractor setup to succeed it has to find an operational economy someplace. In the case of FXG it's found in driver compensation. The rates and settlements FXG pays contractors is based on a overall compensation that's only about 60% of what the average UPS driver gets. And that $140 a day is the pay standard. Only trouble is is that it hasn't changed in nearly a decade.
In addition as was noted earlier the job is a joint killer. Knees, hip joints, shoulder just about every stress point in the body gives out sooner or later. This is where the lack of a benefit package comes in to play.
In the case of IWBF who is a share cropper contractor who pays by the stop and box it ramps up the physical beating even more.
At the terminal I was at the main contractor pays his guys $155 a day plus a modest employer funded benefit plan. Tell you right now that individual is paying the guy running the route everything the route makes just to get him to do it.
In addition as was noted earlier the job is a joint killer. Knees, hip joints, shoulder just about every stress point in the body gives out sooner or later. This is where the lack of a benefit package comes in to play.
In the case of IWBF who is a share cropper contractor who pays by the stop and box it ramps up the physical beating even more.
At the terminal I was at the main contractor pays his guys $155 a day plus a modest employer funded benefit plan. Tell you right now that individual is paying the guy running the route everything the route makes just to get him to do it.