Swift detention pay at shippers/consignees

I'm too impatient to wait until the payroll department comes back to work tomorrow and I couldn't find this info on a search.



How exactly does the detention pay system work when it comes to shippers/consignees taking more than 2 hours to load or unload?

How much do we get paid? Is it per hour?

Do they consider the first 2 hours "free" but once we go over the 2 hours then it retroactively starts paying us from the 1st hour of delay (if that makes sense) or does our detention pay only cover those hours over the first "free" 2 hours?


I'll give an example. I was verifying my pay for this past week. For that particular order, I wasn't paid ANY detention pay. Not on this next paycheck. I arrived at consignee and went ON DUTY - DELIVERY at 13:22. I didn't start rolling again into DRIVE TIME until 19:01. What should I expect to get paid for detention? I assumed 5 hours.

Thanks in advance for any info.

 

Okay, thanks. That's what I was afraid of. I'm not sure why we get detention notices that seem to go backwards, or retroactively, after the second hour of waiting. For example, I didn't receive the first detention notice until a little after 2 hours. That was my "2 hours have expired" (or whatever it says) notice. Then every hour thereafter it went up an hour - 3rd hour "3 hours have expired..." Etc. I saw detention messages all the way up until I had 5 hours expired. I was under the impression that if the load took more than 2 hours than we would start getting paid from our arrival.