Hourly Rates
What are trucks receiving for hourly rate across doing local work in your area, especially for belt trailer or end dump work? Also, is anyone seeing a sliding scale on an hourly rate tied to the EIA regional fuel price? I was sent a rate yesterday for $79 based on $2.77 average fuel price for our region. If fuel was $4.00, the rate is only $90 per hour. Even with lower fuel prices, $79 per hour to the truck seems low to me considering the cost of insurance and equipment. What are your thoughts? Low, high or a fair rate?