Do the mega carriers know ….

The mega's have run the math and they know what the average cost per new driver is and they can make the math work and be profitable. If the mega's were losing money hiring new drivers I guarantee they would stop doing it.

 

Mega companies are doing just fine. Many drivers have been there for years, even decades. You'll rarely hear from them on trucking websites because they're content and not complainers. The paychecks are good.

 

They don’t care.
New drivers sign for almost nothing, .30-.40/mile, smiling all the way to the bank.
they find something better move on, another newbie takes the place, the company pockets the money they’d pay an experienced driver, .56-.66/more and it stays in their pocket

 

How do they achieve the triple digit driver turnover per year figures?

 

When I started at Swift twelve years ago the orientation instructor said Swift was doing about 600 new driver orientations a week nationwide. Given a five to six week training period riding double with a "mentor" that adds up to a consistent pool of around three thousand teams. Driver teams are more profitable for the company than solo drivers so that's a strong incentive to be a training company. After training a driver is just meat in the seat. If he stays they run him. If he leaves they have plenty more coming up behind him.

 

Mega carriers usually maintain a 100% annual turn over rate. This is all built into their system based on industry standards for the revolving door system that the industry created.

 

There is another reason the Mega carries like this model, it steadily increases the available labor pool so it tends to help keep the overall industry wages down. Imagine how much more money the trucking industry would have to spend if they were unable to get such a large pool of cheap new drivers every year.

 

Mega carriers defend themselves in no-poach conspiracy theory lawsuit

It’s a couple years old now, but the way they think about you hasn’t changed.

Your a number there.
Even to get onto i know. Schneider property, at gate they ask your driver number, and match it with your assigned truck, to let you into or out of property