That is an uncommonly generous pay structure for a Papa Johns, pjgirl. Although its been done to death in recent threads, let me help illustrate to you the picture at PJs:
Most Papa Johns drivers were lucky to be making in the $5-6/hour range. Then the minimum wage increase hit (Federal min wage of 6.55/hr.). Since labor costs went up on their INSIDE staff, many PJs have cut back driver pay. There are many stores now where drivers are paid a split wage. $4.00 an hour on deliveries and $6.55 while in store. To compensate, their reimbursement was raised slightly. So they went from, for example, $6.00/hr plus $0.90/run to $4.00/hr plus $1.30/run. This helped Papa Johns on 2 different levels. On one level it gets them closer to a fair vehicle reimbursement, ignoring the sub minimum wage aspect. On another level, it means they pay less in payroll taxes. Of course, to make up for the $2.00/hr paycut, while recieving a .40/run raise, the driver would have to take 5 runs per hour to be even, which we know most PJs drivers come nowhere near doing. But lets be generous and say they did, PJs is still paying them the same amount, but saving money on payroll expenses since they have switched more of the pay from hourly to reimbursement, which doesn’t get taxed for SS, Unemployment, etc.
They did this in the middle of the summer when gas was $4.00/gallon, so by sleight of hand they tried to fool drivers into thinking they were getting more reimbursement while they were really receiving a paycut.
Since the cost of having delivery drivers on the road just went down, that also means PJs can staff more drivers, meaning less runs for each driver, meaning another paycut.
The problem still remains: Drivers taking a very low volume of orders across a too-large delivery area. $1.30/run may be fair if you are driving 2.5 miles per delivery (which I disagree with gregster about delivery radius, you can have a 4 mile radius and average 2.5 per delivery, it is the AVERAGE PER RUN that matters) - But Papa Johns drivers are driving 4, 5, even 6+ miles per delivery running 15 mile singles out to the boonies.
Your husband seemed to have leverage with a franchise owner and got a good deal on pay. Most drivers aren’t lucky enough to make their own terms with the employer on compensation. Do the other drivers get that same compensation? If they do, your Papa Johns is better than some of the more nefarious franchisees out there.
As high as his reimbursement is, I’m hoping the “In town” zone is around 4 miles and the “out of town” goes no further than 6 or so, otherwise even a high reimbursement becomes insufficient.