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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 2339795" data-attributes="member: 60252">Driver pay per hour is flat, but working more hours. It&#039;s getting harder to make profit because fedex doesn&#039;t pay enough. But if ground contractors start taking more packages, their gross will increase. Whether it increases net is another question. Drivers are limited by law to how many hours they can work, and must be paid at least minimum wage. As states raise minimum wage, the squeeze is on. And with unemployment dropping, of course turnover is high. I never said that being an ISP was a good idea. A lot of people think otherwise.The indepedence is gone completely with the one requirement to operate multiple routes. I got into this to decide my own hours and have no one to depend on or depend on me. As one of the day one HD contractors, I was outright lied to- saying that I could contract my one zip code, or more if I wanted, and work as many or a few hours as it took. Day two I was assigned at least 10 zip codes, and was told I needed to do whatever they assigned to me. I was told over and over that my area was determined by what they assigned, and that they had the right to make full use of my van, as determined by them. When I wanted to hire a driver to work for me a couple days a week using his own&nbsp; almost new van, they said they weren&#039;t approving any second vans or drivers until the terminal reached a certain volume. Now the ISP faces the same or similar demands.The new ISP has no benefit to being an ISP instead of contracting a single route, and has more invested.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 2339795, member: 60252"] Driver pay per hour is flat, but working more hours. It's getting harder to make profit because fedex doesn't pay enough. But if ground contractors start taking more packages, their gross will increase. Whether it increases net is another question. Drivers are limited by law to how many hours they can work, and must be paid at least minimum wage. As states raise minimum wage, the squeeze is on. And with unemployment dropping, of course turnover is high. I never said that being an ISP was a good idea. A lot of people think otherwise. The indepedence is gone completely with the one requirement to operate multiple routes. I got into this to decide my own hours and have no one to depend on or depend on me. As one of the day one HD contractors, I was outright lied to- saying that I could contract my one zip code, or more if I wanted, and work as many or a few hours as it took. Day two I was assigned at least 10 zip codes, and was told I needed to do whatever they assigned to me. I was told over and over that my area was determined by what they assigned, and that they had the right to make full use of my van, as determined by them. When I wanted to hire a driver to work for me a couple days a week using his own almost new van, they said they weren't approving any second vans or drivers until the terminal reached a certain volume. Now the ISP faces the same or similar demands. The new ISP has no benefit to being an ISP instead of contracting a single route, and has more invested. [/QUOTE]

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