Eagle is an alright company to work for. Its not perfect by any means. One of the problems is paying a driver by the load. Some loads pay better than others. For example some loads will pay close to $20 an hour. But then other loads will pay closer to $15 or sometimes lower. Thanks to forced dispatch we had to run some of those loads.
When dispatch plays favorites and giving certain drivers the higher paying loads day after day its hard to stay loyal to a company. I can only speak from my experience at the terminal that I worked at.

Hey Mike I never heard of a company paying their drivers different hourly rates for different loads. !! But I agree that doing tanker work , that it's better to get paid a good hourly rate because of all the time consuming factors. ..

We can charge for our time if we sit at the rack too long. We actually got a raise on a bunch of things.

From what I heard Eagle pays different at different terminal. Some (I think) get paid by percentage of the load.

I am happy so far.

Yea the different rates for different customers did not make any sense to me either.

Originally Posted by GasHauler

It's a shame that the bigger oil companies are going to common carriers because they paid the highest wages of anybody. Out west I know Chevron and ARCO were really close in pay and it was $26.50 an hour and that started as soon as you went to work and stopped when you were done. At ARCO you got paid on a 10 hour day and anything over than was time and a half. You worked 4 days on then 3 days off. I've never seen where you couldn't get a day of overtime if you asked. There were 11 days of holidays before BP took over then they dropped it down to 9 I believe. The benefits were outrageous and when the stock spilt 4 ways a lot drivers were really up there in retirement funds. But now they are closing terminals and I don't think Chevron even has any trucks left. ARCO has the 4 western states they still run in but I heard it was tighting up. It hard to find an oil company that drills their own oil,moves it with their own ships,refines it at their refinery,then moves it to the station with their own trucks. Those are the companies where the drivers made a killing and a career because distribution costs were absorbed in the downstream marketing plan.

It's all about liability.

Originally Posted by sharpshooter

It's all about liability.

It's all about costs and profit. Exxon still has a few in Houston and I think Chevron has ( had ) 3 or 4 left but I havn't seen them for awhile.

liability=costs. that's why big companies keep things seperate. If one branch falls it doesn't take the whole tree