Anyone else about to experience the new hourly pay changes?

It really depends on the account. I’m on a dedicated account that really didn’t have any accessorial pay before. My cpm didn’t change, but now get $10/hr for on-duty time, so I’m making a little more than before. You get the hourly pay when in yard-move, so I use that at the OC and any other location it’s allowed.

The accounts that had a lot of accessorial pay, like Walmart, seem to be worse off. I’ve heard their drivers complaining about it at the OC. I was talking to an OTR driver on Saturday and it sounds like he was doing ok on it.

 

Fast food workers are making $15 per hour. Costco pays in the mid-20s.

 

I'm saying this as a former SNI driver myself, not to rub it in your faces.

Pay's low, friends. Pay's low.

 

Oh, I know, $10/hr is pretty terrible for an hourly rate. I'm currently at .51cpm for mileage pay, so with the addition of the on-duty hourly, I'm usually grossing $1,400-$1,500/wk. I could certainly do better, but I've also seen a lot of people do worse. For now, I like the company and the schedule of the dedicated account I'm on is a good fit for me. Ultimately, I'm sure I'll move on to something else, but I currently plan on at least finishing out this year so I'll have 2yr experience and can go pretty much anywhere at that point.

 

For me I've made more. This last week it wasn't much more (about $40) for me but my wife does better. We lost 1 cpm and we would each get $7.50 for double d&h. I figured an hour a day on line 4 would put me right around even.

My wife is generally on duty doing the double drop & hooks at the store so she gets more hours. Ideally we would switch at the stores and the dc so we can both be on duty and most of our stores are 10 hour drives but then we get a 14 hour trip and it throws things out of whack.

There are times where I'm glad they switched. I know it is just $10/hr but it is better than nothing. Yesterday we had a low drive tire and then a low trailer tire. Cleaning ice and snow off the lights & windshield is another little task that eats up a little time. It surprises me how much time I wind up with.

We reset every weekend so we don't worry about running out our 70s. I can understand why it would bother those who do if they had their cpm cut too.

 

$10 per hour is better than nothing and many of ya’ll gets nothing but the company is saying “your time is only worth $10 per hour”. That’s a insult.

 

I am distinctly unhappy.

We lost the 2 cpm "accelerator pay" we got last February and all "accessory pay". That drops my effective pay by 7 cpm to the hub, or $175 a week. There's no way to make that all up with the on duty pay, even at the TE rate of $12/hr.

The only way I get close to my weekly average is when I get to the house I go back and edit all the off duty time to on duty. I started on this pay structure Dec 1 and I'm down $200 overall compared to the old structure, extrapolate that out and it will be about $2,000 for the year.

One of the stupider parts is the way things are set up I'm incentivised to take 1 student a month because I still get the TE hourly rate even when not training, but won't lose miles due to training.

For anyone whose LOH is over 500 miles, the new pay structure is an acceptable raise. Anyone like me who averages 3 extreme short haul loads a week is getting hosed.