questions for brokers & owners with regards to detention pay

Just as your success is not determined by someone else's inability to be successful, your above reality expectations and obligations (3 kids) do not determine what you should make as a truck driver. Don't get me wrong: I agree with you in just about everything you said, but when someone says "never again" for making over 2 grand profit in your pocket for sitting with the wife watching cable for two days when there are so many capable and qualified men and women out there struggling to feed their families, it gets me a bit twisted. It sounds arrogant and insensitive. And for the record, nowhere I assumed you or your wife are not college graduates, but if you are then you are a very rare exception. I've recruited hundreds of owner operators and drivers and sold loads to thousands, and I'm yet to come across drivers with a bachelor (although I think more of them should instead of making crap money as they are currently).

 

The reason I mentioned my three kids was to refute the college cost claim. We give each a few hundred dollars a month for spending money and help with some bills but it is not a burden. Heck, one just graduated from CalState Northridge with zero debt due to him working his butt off, one is on a full ride scholarship at Colorado State (football) and one is doing the now traditional student loan thing.
My point is, I am not going to apologize for making #### good money. Nobody apologizes to me when the turbo blows and the government doesn't apologize for taking my 14+% for Social Security that I will never see again and NOBODY is at all apologetic when we head to Los Angeles or Seattle to see family and the best load we can find out pays $1.10 a mile.

 

The place that books my loads pays $50 an hour and $55 an hour if the reefer is running. They start paying after 90 minutes of our appointment time. If your late there is no detention pay.


One place I go most weeks has a late charge. The nice part is they get you in and out in under 20 minutes if everything is right with the paper work and your load.


There is one place I go every week. They unload half the trailer to get the pallets they want and send me to Reddy Ice up the road to unload the rest. They pay $75 for a multiple drops, $3.10 a mile to Reddy Ice and $55 an hour for detention pay. I know they are paying more, but that's my cut.

This is very true. The O/O that do not team drive will never understand.

 

I get your point and, like I said, mostly agree with everything you said except your statement of "never again" to invoicing $ 2,375.00 for a 350 miles that takes you 1/3 of your week is not the end of the world (it would be half a week if you worked 5 days, but you said you work 7-day weeks).

 

Sounds like either Pilgrims Pride or Kroger, based the rules and rates.

 

Never worked for ether of them. I used to pull loads into Kroger (atlas logistics) and would be there for hours.


Nope much smaller broker.


The place that fines is a bakery suppler. They also fine if you show up early.


The place I hat is the Vegas Casino that never has room for my load any more.