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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 2334223" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>At the rural terminal that I hauled out of as single route until May of last year the guys who worked for the multi routes were payed a range of $120-135 per day with no pension healthcare or any benefits of any kind working 9 to 11 hours per day. That hasn&#039;t changed much since I left. One driver employee is getting around $180 and the route owner isn&#039;t making a dime off of it but this is a fast and reliable type of guy who are in short supply.As you mentioned that 50 60 bucks per route a week left over is the same number I came up with when I considered multi routing. Not&nbsp; on balance with the risks.&nbsp; Revenue production per hour in this depressed&nbsp; sparsely populated rural area with hundreds of miles of unpaved poorly maintained township roads that tore suspensions apart was simply too low. The multi&#039;s who remain are heavily leveraged struggle to make payroll and are running out of healthy bodies. With company funded temps being quickly phased out I told the kid who bought me out that if needed I was prepared to put off getting the hip joint replaced until after the first of the year and terminal management itself asked about my availability. Last year thanks to the El Nino&nbsp; they had a fairly mild winter&nbsp; and peak was barely impacted. With the El Nino having passed I don&#039;t think they will be so lucky this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 2334223, member: 58386"] At the rural terminal that I hauled out of as single route until May of last year the guys who worked for the multi routes were payed a range of $120-135 per day with no pension healthcare or any benefits of any kind working 9 to 11 hours per day. That hasn't changed much since I left. One driver employee is getting around $180 and the route owner isn't making a dime off of it but this is a fast and reliable type of guy who are in short supply.As you mentioned that 50 60 bucks per route a week left over is the same number I came up with when I considered multi routing. Not on balance with the risks. Revenue production per hour in this depressed sparsely populated rural area with hundreds of miles of unpaved poorly maintained township roads that tore suspensions apart was simply too low. The multi's who remain are heavily leveraged struggle to make payroll and are running out of healthy bodies. With company funded temps being quickly phased out I told the kid who bought me out that if needed I was prepared to put off getting the hip joint replaced until after the first of the year and terminal management itself asked about my availability. Last year thanks to the El Nino they had a fairly mild winter and peak was barely impacted. With the El Nino having passed I don't think they will be so lucky this year. [/QUOTE]

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