All Carriers Steal from their Drivers

You can't tell the boss how to do his job. He tells you what to do. Everyone knows your point is totally true. Everyone also knows that it's wrong not to be paid for all your miles. But the trucking industry has developed over the years, contrary to modern standards of compensation. Unionization would help, but drivers have been brainwashed into thinking that big companies are looking out for their interests more than unions.

 

A few things,

1. When you work for someone else you agree to work at the pace they set.

2. No one is holding a gun to your head to drive said castrated rig.

3. Boss makes the decisions within reasonable safe terms.

4. If you do not like it, find another job.

 

True and always remember this, trucking for someone is like Vegas and the odds are always in favor of the house.

 

Stoopid thread is stoopid.

 

Just as a point for argument the weekly fuel cost difference between a truck doing 62 and one doing 70mph is about $330 a week. So yes they make you go slow to save money. Yes they make a profit off it. But I don't know many companies out there that wouldn't like to make an extra $330 s week per employee. And honestly anyone not smart enough to see that would be best if they stayed a company driver because they will never survive with their own truck.

 

As a o/o i go 58mph. theres honestly no reason to go any faster.

 

I'd like to meet the driver who can prove to me that the difference between driving 62 mph and 70 mph is the difference between putting 620 miles that day and 700 miles that day.

 

Some of us steal the money back by driving 62 and logging 70.

Wait, WHAT ??