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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3273369" data-attributes="member: 58386">Being both a contractor as well as a salaried/waged driver you have the opportunity to see the core issues from both sides.As a contractor you have learned first hand a valuable lesson. The only money you make is by driving a route yourself and if your lucky you&#039;ll be able to sell everything for many times book value to some poor unsuspecting slug who thinks that he has just landed on &quot;go&quot; on his first throw of the dice and has no clue as to what he&#039;s getting himself into. As a salaried/ waged driver you can see that the only person who can make it on what&nbsp; driving for a contractor pays is an unmarried person with no kids lives alone with no debts and very inexpensive living costs and can squeeze enough out of his take home to buy himself an ACA assisted health insurance plan.&nbsp; A person fitting that description is &quot;gold&quot; for a contractor but such people are very very few in number.The greed of X will always leave a huge gap between what a contractor will have available to pay and what a driver with a typical household needs to meet basic living expenses. If that contractor falls into that abyss well, in the eyes of X, that&#039;s his tough luck because he failed to fulfill &quot;The Purple Promise&quot;&nbsp; in which the true reality is the promise to provide X with the&nbsp; industry&#039;s cheapest trucking and labor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 3273369, member: 58386"] Being both a contractor as well as a salaried/waged driver you have the opportunity to see the core issues from both sides. As a contractor you have learned first hand a valuable lesson. The only money you make is by driving a route yourself and if your lucky you'll be able to sell everything for many times book value to some poor unsuspecting slug who thinks that he has just landed on "go" on his first throw of the dice and has no clue as to what he's getting himself into. As a salaried/ waged driver you can see that the only person who can make it on what driving for a contractor pays is an unmarried person with no kids lives alone with no debts and very inexpensive living costs and can squeeze enough out of his take home to buy himself an ACA assisted health insurance plan. A person fitting that description is "gold" for a contractor but such people are very very few in number. The greed of X will always leave a huge gap between what a contractor will have available to pay and what a driver with a typical household needs to meet basic living expenses. If that contractor falls into that abyss well, in the eyes of X, that's his tough luck because he failed to fulfill "The Purple Promise" in which the true reality is the promise to provide X with the industry's cheapest trucking and labor. [/QUOTE]

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