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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3443413" data-attributes="member: 58386">Do you have any numbers to back up your claim? I can tell you this much. During the time we 3 Day 1&#039;s were in operation 22 new contractors both single route and multi route came and left. Why? The usual issues. Unsustainable driver turnover. Contract revisions that took away revenue streams that once gone made the entire endeavor no longer worth doing. One went from route contractor immediately into UPS full time management Furthermore why are so many contractors on nationwide job boards crying for employee drivers?&nbsp; The answer is&nbsp; quite easy to find. Simply read the negative reviews from former contractor employees. Comments all pretty much the same. High demands, low pay, zero benefits. When someone gets a call to go to drive for Fedex Ground they immediately understandably&nbsp; believe that they will earn a family sustaining wage and at least average benefits. Then they find out that they are actually going to work for a powerless contractor for starvation wages zero benefits while still answering directly XG&#039;s every beckon call.It doesn&#039;t take long for them to figure out that the existence of that contractor is why they are working for so little. Therefore if they are even willing to take the job&nbsp; no rational person is going to believe that they&#039;ll&nbsp; put forth a conscientious effort or harbor any concern whatsoever for the interests of the contractor. Sure, you can replace that person but more often or not you&#039;re going to get the same reaction from a person when you present him with the same set of conditions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 3443413, member: 58386"] Do you have any numbers to back up your claim? I can tell you this much. During the time we 3 Day 1's were in operation 22 new contractors both single route and multi route came and left. Why? The usual issues. Unsustainable driver turnover. Contract revisions that took away revenue streams that once gone made the entire endeavor no longer worth doing. One went from route contractor immediately into UPS full time management Furthermore why are so many contractors on nationwide job boards crying for employee drivers? The answer is quite easy to find. Simply read the negative reviews from former contractor employees. Comments all pretty much the same. High demands, low pay, zero benefits. When someone gets a call to go to drive for Fedex Ground they immediately understandably believe that they will earn a family sustaining wage and at least average benefits. Then they find out that they are actually going to work for a powerless contractor for starvation wages zero benefits while still answering directly XG's every beckon call. It doesn't take long for them to figure out that the existence of that contractor is why they are working for so little. Therefore if they are even willing to take the job no rational person is going to believe that they'll put forth a conscientious effort or harbor any concern whatsoever for the interests of the contractor. Sure, you can replace that person but more often or not you're going to get the same reaction from a person when you present him with the same set of conditions. [/QUOTE]

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