Owner-Operator hired a driver and will put him in a company to drive

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Normally you would have the contract with the company and a contract with the driver. The driver will be qualified with the company but he is your driver and your truck. What kind of contract dose the company want him to sign? Dose it have any thing in it about pay or compensation ?

 

Yes the contract is with you. He is your employee of YOUR company. If the company your leased on too wants something signed about company policy, or directives that's fine but your the one paying him, and are responsible for the escrow etc. he is not a contractor you are. You need to talk to the company your leased to and work it out.

 

The company has no business trying to get the driver to sign anything, he is your employee or sub-contractor.

So stop messing around second guessing and playing games with this company, get a lawyer, have them write up a good contract for your driver and tell the company to stick theirs.

By the way, you should not buy a truck or hire anyone without a lawyer involved to guide you. Too many cheap owners go this route and end up screwing the driver or screwing themselves.

 

the company will treat him as there “ employee “ since they are the carrier he has to qualify for them and fill out paperwork you also need to have a lease agreement, to get your tag you got to show that lease agreement

 

That is true it being qualified and signing a contract are two different things.

 

If the company treats him as an employee, then they better pay him as an employee because he is their employee. If he works for your company (leased to the company), he exclusively works for you and only you and not the company. They only need to keep a record of his qualifications on file, that's all.