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Jim Lunsford	Drivers Pay		Lead	[-]
Posts: 56 01/05/10 17:13:47	Tags : None I've never had any drivers...its always been eather me or my son or son in law that run my trucks and we are all stright salary ..anyway in my quest to build this towing program i've been working on for the longest I just realized I didn't have any way to enter drivers info , commision, who does what and how to keep up with it ect.....sooooo what are the ways drivers get paid other than hourly and some examples would be kool towing as well as recovery rates or examples lets say a driver makes example 30 percent commision for tows....he wouldn't make 30 % on a recovery would he ?? this is whats got me confused Jim Last Edited By: Jim Lunsford 01/05/10 17:17:00. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 1382 01/06/10 10:05:27 Featured Member August 2004 WreckMaster #92190 I.T.R.H.F.M. Friend of Museum	Well it depends on the company, but yes I do make commission on towing and recovery bills. YEAH I LOVE PPP BILLS lol... If the bill is 4000 on my part then I get commission on it at my rate. But I have also worked for companies where on major recoveries I got paid an hourly rate which was a lot higher than what I normally would of made. But then again, I am very experienced and able to run almost any truck or equipment such as Air Cushions. And the types of training that I have also benefits the company also. "To be honest, I'm more worried about what the government can do to me than what they can do for me."
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Posts: 146 01/06/10 11:24:26	Good questions Jim. I pay hourly 5 day week, normal hours. Commission on all after hours. Sometimes it seems that commision pays high on recoveries, but those are not an everyday occurence so it gives an experienced driver a chance to come out with an annual average wage that makes it worth his time being on call and compensates him for being a knowledgeable, proficient operator. Maybe before long you and I can meet and solve the pay problem. I do know that in Little Rock there is a lot of commission based only pay with a lot of driver turn over. Steve
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Jim Lunsford		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 56 01/06/10 18:15:30	the more I think about this the more I 'm thinking its going to be too complicated to include into my program LOL so how does most companys keep up with the drivers as far as who towed what or whatevers ..Do they use like quickbooks, or peachtree or simply write it down in a ledger ?? i've seen a few tow programs that puts a driver and truck to a certain invoice but thats about as far as it goes...and ofcourse that would be easy to do in my program .... and if a driver gets commission on that invoice that wouldn't be too hard to incorprate into the program Towing wise LOL but now doing it for recovery where theres generaly more than one driver/operator per invoice I can see this getting very compulicated...so compulicated it would be another program in itself ....I very well may back off this hair brained idea and let the secertary worry with who gets what at the end of the week .... gona have to study on this Jim
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Posts: 56 01/10/10 19:31:58	played around a little with this and took a copy of my program and incorproated into it driver info....shows driver and truck per invoice and gave it a way to set commision rates , add / remove drivers, trucks, ect....now wondering other than being able to tell what driver and truck did what tow what good it serves LOL thinking its an endless thingy where if you add all this you need to add all other expenses for it to be of any use ..then your talking big program that does it all...plenty of those already out there so now i'm thinking maybe just leaveing the driver /truck record per invoice and forget the commission and all else Jim Last Edited By: Jim Lunsford 01/10/10 20:43:34. Edited 1 time.
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Posts: 146 01/11/10 10:15:41	Forget the programs Jim. Just reach in the pocket pay the driver what He thinks he is worth and you will be broke, he will be happy, and it will be business as usual. The program might show you where the money is and what to do to make money and that aint right. Everybody already knows theres not any money to be made in this business. Steve
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