Drivers Pay VS Safety

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Pahrump, Sep 3, 2014.

  1. Pahrump

    Pahrump Medium Load Member

    Here is another story about Drivers Pay verses Safety

    Here and other forums over the years I have always said the best way to improve Highway Safety was to change the way drivers are paid.
    If all drivers were paid by an hourly wage with time and one half after 40 hours for ALL HOURS worked highway safety would be improved and driver turn over would be an issue the would be eliminated,
    Good safe quality driver would migrate to the good paying carriers and highway safety would improve because there would be no incentive for drivers to speed or drive over the maximum hours allowed.

    Below is a story about the FMCSA looking into the issue.

    Drivers now is the time to get involved,,Speak up,,write the the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Get involved or sit back and be treated like a second class citizen!!
    If you want a change and make your job better get involved..Or let the companies have their way continuing to pay slave wages , not get paid for all your miles and let your company treat drivers as if all drivers were stupid worthless workers,, All it takes is to write a letter!! Be paid for every hour you work!! GET INVOLVED IT IS YOUR CAREER AND YOUR LIFE!!

    Or you can accept what ever you company wants to do and pay third world wages to you!

    Read below:

    "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will study whether the method of paying truck drivers has any relationship to safety, the agency announced.

    “Should the study show that there is a relationship between the methods drivers are paid and the methods’ effect on safe-driving performance, a potential benefit of the study will be to provide carrier companies with information that will help them make more informed decisions about safe operations,” FMCSA said in an Aug. 29 Federal Register notice.
    The agency also said it will look at other “potential confounding variables” ranging from the type of vehicle operation, size of carrier, whether for-hire, private or owner-operated and whether the carrier can be characterized as a truckload, less-than-truckload, regional, tanker or other type of carrier."



    The agency is accepting public comment on the notice until Oct. 28

    Go to the FMCSA and read about it..
     
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  3. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    No thanks. Too many already slack off.


    Besides, our country is built around cheap transportation which allows more people to buy more junk which means more people have to work designing, building, distributing, selling, & servicing junk which means even more people can afford to buy more junk and the cycle continues.

    No politician wants to be in charge when the bubble bursts, so they avoid anything that can disrupt this house of cards. That's why we prop up stable dictators in oil-rich countries, why we subsidize ethanol (well, on top of creating a dominant status for corn production), & why truckers have been exempt from certain costly labor laws.
     
  4. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    hourly employees have no desire to work. they just want a paycheck.hourly pay will do nothing to improve safety. the problem is stupidity.
     
  5. Grouch

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    Personally, whatever I am paid, it does not affect my job performance. I take pride in myself, equipment and personal appearance, whatever my paycheck looks like. Even when I was working local and getting paid by the hour, I "hustled" and along with "hustling", I tried my best to be safe, not for the money, but for my personal satisfaction. Even today, working for the same amount that I was making back in the mid 70s, I still try to give my employer the same amount of effort.

    Pay for an otr driver should be mileage, plus hours. The minute the truck stops, hourly pay should kick in, unless the driver is taking his 10 off and then I believe that the driver should be paid everytime he takes his 10 hour break. Even the 30 minutes break after 8 hrs should be paid on hourly pay. And if a driver is on the road and having to take his 34 reset, he should be paid and put up in a nice hotel. If a company runs a driver hard enough to force him to take his 34 reset out on the road instead at home, then they should "get off the money".

    A break-down, the minute the truck breaks down, the driver should go on hourly pay. And hourly pay should be at least $20.00 or better per hour. This 8 or 9 dollar per hour crap don't get it!!
     
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  6. ShooterK2

    ShooterK2 Road Train Member

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    At the small company I work for, there are guys that hustle and guys that don't. Many times, when we are doing multiple short hauls on one job, I can lap some of the non-hustlers by the end of the day. They piddle, talk, are slow hooking up and unhooking (some are out of shape, which hinders their quickness in these areas), stop for lunch, etc. I multitask all the time, combine jobs when possible, do paperwork while loading/unloading, climb my trailer quickly to open/close hatches, etc. Doing these things quickly and efficiently on every load really adds up by the end of the day.The company makes more money per hour that I'm working, as opposed to an hour worked by one of the slower drivers. Therefore, my paycheck is higher for a given amount of time, because I hustled and got more sand hauled.

    Now, I'm not talking badly of these drivers. We have some really good guys working here. Some of them are just not as fast, and it would not be fair to pay them the same as the faster drivers. Actually, if they haul the same number of loads, they would get paid MORE, since it took them longer to do it.
     
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