Family Driver

[Radical!]

I'll be interviewing a driver tomorrow to drive my eldest child to school.

Need your advice on the following:

What should I look out for?
What is the going rate in terms of salary, overtime, meal allowance etc.
What are the requirements in terms of experience

Please share other thoughts and advice.

TIA

[Memphis Raines]

1. Ask for a Police Clearance.

2. Experience in different tranny's (auto/manual), change flat tire. Basic trouble shooting like overheating, etc. Better yet have him drive you around to observe his driving manners.

3. Salary and overtime depends if he will be a 'stay-in' driver or on call lang. I think you can save a lot if he gets free room and board from you then adjust his salary accordingly.

4. Of course check his driver's license which is better if his restrictions are 124, this means he can legally drive automatics.

HTH.

[nitrox]

1. Dont forget to ask for his family background - single or married w/ kids, etc
2. NBI clearance na rin if possible or previous employer references.
3. Ask if he is open to helping out with some non-driving tasks when he's free (like running errands, etc).

Question: May overtime pay ba ang family drivers nowadays? Arent they supposed to only have a fixed monthly salary like housemaids and work for a reasonable number of hours? Plano rin namin mag-hire eh.

[HoyMicky]

1. Get as much info on his background as possible: address (visit the address to verify), parents name, family, previous employer(s), experience, hobbies. Get his picture also.

2. of course kailangang may police clearance/barangay clearance

3. Yung sa akin fixed salary lang. Ang ginagawa lang naman mostly e hatid sa school at sundo sa school ang mga anak ko. No OT pay. Pag may lakad lang na gagabihin, syempre bigyan ko ng allowance for food. Hindi rin stay-in. Uwi sya sa bahay nila (So I actually had to make sure I hired one who does not live too far away).

4. Tell him na under probation muna sya so you can observe him at work for at least 2 months before you tell him na pemanent na sya.

5. Let him know about the things you DONT tolerate: like drinking, smoking, being late, etc.

6. Tell him rin yung other expectations mo like cleaning the car(s) regularly, going on errands, etc.

Hope this helps.

[mbeige]

If you drive an SUV or if your child will be brought to school in an SUV it might also be good to see how he drives considering the larger blind spots and being in the presence of lots of children. Go with him on the first few days maybe even weeks, mahirap yung first day on the job siya na mag-isa.

It might be good if you could provide him with a basic prepaid phone to contact him in any case. Set the ground rules for phone usage too and make sure you tell him you have the right to get it back if he gets fired, etc. If he loses it he'll have to compensate you for it. Load it with whatever you deem is necessary but mention to him that you'll monitor its usage from time to time. It's up to you if you want to provide load for him or just leave that up to him to provide. And make sure you tell him you want it on all the time.

Finally check his driving/professional background, what he drove, who he drove for, etc. You never know what you can dig up. Good luck!

[Radical!]

Thank you for all your useful advice. Did an initial interview and took your advice to 'road test' him tomorrow. He is a taxi driver at the moment, but he wants less work and more time for the family. It takes about 10 hours of driving to over attain boundary. He used to be a family driver, so that's a plus.



Question. How much is a fair daily salary for a stay out, 5 days per week driver (don't need a driver on weekends). I understand minimum wage for NCR is about P369 for a 'skilled' worker (or thereabouts). How much for meals when we are out?

Thanks again.

[russpogi]

4. Of course check his driver's license which is better if his restrictions are 124, this means he can legally drive automatics.

HTH.

Bossing, actually the License Restriction Code 4 means a person can only drive automatics and is not allowed to drive manuals.

It's nice to have License Restriction Codes 123 as:
Code 1 - allows you to drive a motorbike/tricycle
Code 2 - allows you to drive cars, vans, pickups
Code 3 - allows you to drive trucks (License needs to be Pro to get this Code)

HTH

[Galactus]

^^^ +1 on restriction codes (with the addendum that RC#2 allows one to drive cars up to 4500 kgs gross vehicle weight.

Naging racket yan ng mga tiwaling traffic enforcers before. Pag napansin nila na matic yung sasakyan tapos RC2 lang yung driver's license, tatakutin nila na additional penalty to force the driver to come across. But this issue has alredy been clarified before numerous times already by the LTO and MMDA.

[userfriendly]

All of the above +

- get a chest x-ray. dami may TB dito sa atin. you dont want to expose your family. Well worth the 300+ pesos its going to cost.
- get a drug test, best kung kasama ka para walang daya
- take his picture na rin