detention pay

but you forget tax so after tax its about .11 a mile depends on what you take out for yourself

 

So at what point do drivers finally stand up for themselves and say enough is enough.......when do these so called rebels of the road get the gonads to say " screw you.....no pay no work!", I guess that will not happen until these schools run out of potential students to ram into the seat of a truck.

 

Did you ask your DM if they could move the appointments forward? A smaller company I would of called the customer myself. Bigger companies frown on that. They want customer service to handle everything.

Being under load like this situation with an appointment time takes away from any accessory pay. No load equals layover pay. Detention usually happens when the customer keeps you over 2-3 hours on the dock depending on the contract. Then a trucking company will bill the customer for detention. Some pay, some don't. The buck gets passed down to you. If there is no buck to pass down, you can't get any.

My last job there was a few times I got screwed on detention like a broker load and there was times I didn't expect any and got paid detention. For the most part I got paid. Sometimes I had to wait a month, but I got paid.

Your company simply put the whammy to you. A good DM would of dropped that load and put you on another. You went home, so all was not lost. Sometimes you have to make the best of a situation. Don't get mad, but develop a relationship with your DM and learn how to negotiate and communicate. There's good and bad dispatchers at most companies. You have to find one you click with before making a decision of quitting.

You have to ask yourself are you a team player that takes the bad with the good or are you one of the complainers that goes off when things don't go your way. Those type drivers are a recipe for failure as their company relationship spirals downward. Take care of your DM and they will take care of you.

Many large companies have a driver ranking system on their computer. Let's say 1-9 like my last company. When there are multiple drivers in an area available for a load, an 8 is going to get the better load while a 4 is going to get the crappy one. Strive to be an 8 or 9 and the loads/money will come your way.

 

I know alot of local drivers in the NY/NJ area who get paid hourly. Most make a decent living but a few have jobs where once they hit 40 hours, the company doesn't want to pay overtime so they give them "an extra day off" and hire additional people to backfill.

My local gig pays cpm but also pays detention pay for loading/unloading from the first minute. I also get congestion pay for crossing into NYC.

Please remember that the dock worker that is unloading your truck could care less if you are running out of hours, get a crappy paycheck, or anything else. He cares about HIS job and not yours.

Alot of companies don't have terminals all over the country so guess what.... You are the warehouse and the security system, and the guy just waiting to get the green light to back it into a door. Been there done that, hopefully never again.

 

When you realize there are other driving jobs out there.

A good driver can easily find a job with good benefits, fair practices and good equipment.

 

The company I'm leased on to pays after 2 hours but you have to call her at exactly a half hour before your detention starts then if you don't you're ######

 

We just have to make sure the "in" and "out" times are written on the bills - payroll can verify the location via GPS tags from the QualComm. Easy enough... I just look for the time I sent my arrival and depart messages.

 

Free time is a major problem in this industry in my opinion. You can come up with any number of items. Either way, you should be compensated for ALL of your on duty time. Don't forget to include the fact that you also don't get paid for the actual you drove. Thats a big one for me.

 

Ive been lucky so far. All my paid miles have matched my hub miles.

Ethan

 

Theres a easy answer to why you don't get paid for all time: How many truckers lie on their logs? Darn near all of them.

If company A decided they were going to pay for line 4 work, I'll bet my bottom dollar that every truck driver would log 2 hour pre-trips, 6 hours at shippers and recievers, etc whereas before they would log a hour max on line 4 daily.