My Father co-owned and managed a trucking firm for some years. At that time the wage for drives was around $8 per hour. That was TOP wages in the area.
On any prevailing wage job they had to pay $12 per hour. It was crazy. It just drove up cost and made it an accounting nightmare. IF drive delivered a load to the Government job than went and worked some where else the rest of the day he had to be paid two different rates for the hours worked on that day.
To the fellow that say the contractors just pocket the "extra" prevailing wages. You just show you have NEVER ran a company that does prevailing wage jobs. You have to provide time cards and check stubs showing you actually PAID the workers prevailing wages.
NCWayne also points out an even bigger issue in that the government rules that make ZERO common sense drive many of these projects. The waste on many projects can be as high as 50%.
Here is another example of these stupid rules. If you have dirt work done the contractor has to install silt fencing around the sire to stop any run off. On a road job by my house a few years ago they widened a section and straighten out a curve. It all was all in the bottom of a big cut in a hill. They had to run silt fence along the top of the hill with the road because they had to contain the site. So straight up a 14 foot tall bank they had to run over a mile of silt fence. The ground drained each way so they had to install it at the highest point in the water shed. I can see putting silt fence in at drainage points to contain any run off but the top of an embankment?????? I asked the contractor what that fencing cost per foot. He said right at $4 a foot installed with posts and then $2 a foot to remove it and the post when done. So the job had $25-30K of additional cost because of some stupid rule that makes ZERO common sense.
So millions of dollars are wasted every single year.
Here is another thing to the union supporters. I will joint the FIRST union that is ran by someone NOT getting any wage other than the average wage of the workers in the union and that they support worker wages that are paid based on performance.
That will never happen for two reasons:
1) The average union is run by fellow that DRAW many times the average of the worker they represent.
2) Every union job or plant I have ever been in had at the minimum 10% of the work force that could have been FIRED on the spot and production would have not been lessened any at all.
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