Swift detention pay at shippers/consignees

when I worked at Central I heard 2 different ways they pay detention

1) write your times on the bills/make them write the times on the bills

but my second DM said

2) its done automatically, the computer does it when you do your Macros (which is a load of crap)

in the 12 months I worked at Central I never got 1 dime of detention. so I assume detention pay is a lie. but i'm also opposed to detention pay anyway

 

With Swift I always get detention pay starting 2 hrs after arriving on time and doing the mac1 or 5. I log 15 mins for arrival the 1.75 hrs in the sleeper waiting then go to line 4 at the 2-hr mark to respond to the messages.

I always get paid for the time over 2 hrs without having to ask.

 

I had a lot of trouble getting paid detention on loads when I was there too. I recall one load, went to pick it up but it wasn't ready. Opted for an 8 hour sleeper split for a chance to still deliver the load ontime for Swift. 6.5 hours later they banged on my door to back up to the docks 100 yards away. Got loaded and hour later or so and completed the 8 split and left and still delivered ontime. Detention pay denied due to 'we don't pay you to sleep'.

After that for those hourly messages for the 'reason' I would just put an X in the reason box. Someone would invariably reply that X is not a reason-- Delete? Y. If I'm not getting detention, Swift will not get it either.

 

I've gotten detention pay many times.
I fill out the form when I'm sent a message, and I put in and out times on the BOL. I try to get the name of the person I'm talking with and the exact reason as to why it is taking so long, but that is not always possible. But I still get paid for the time.
Usually.

Maybe it's a DM/CSR/FM/TM issue with some people, but I seem to get paid detention when I'm due it. (most times)

 

The problem may have been because you went to sleeper status, and then completed it before you went back on duty even though you were working.

When they pounded your truck and you moved it to the dock you SHOULD have been on duty.
That would, of course, nullify your break at that point. It would also have put you in the position to get the detention pay.
At that point you could have shut down again for a real break and sent a Mac 22 with a very valid reason to be late for delivery.

Hopefully the load you got next made up for the lack of detention pay, because it was your own fault that you didn't get that pay.


Getting pissy about the system won't change it. It is what it is.
Sending 'X' in the response will gain you nothing.

 

No I stayed in the sleeper and moved the truck over to the docks-- foolishly thinking I was doing Swift a good thing by using the rules to get the load delivered on time to the original schedule even though the shipper wasn't ready. Since they done me wrong on that, I took every opportunity to do them wrong in return. I'm sure they still made a fortune off me and my truck.

 

you're soppose to go on "line 2" when at shipper/consignee/dock

 

Tell me this.
How can you stay in the sleeper and move the truck into a dock?
Don't you have to be in the chair to start the truck and move it?

Your notion of 'doing Swift a favor' is foolish, especially when it means you are falsifying your logs.


And you were not 'using the rules', because that would mean staying legal.

Or are you referring to unsaid rules, meaning that you break the law to do what the company expects or demands or would like - or to simply try to look good for your 'diligence'?
Bend or break whatever just to get the load there on time?

I don't play that game.
Never did, never will.
And, Swift has never asked this of me.

 

And then you have the NERVE to blame Swift for not paying you detention pay?

Unbelievable.

 

I admit it was foolish-- right there in my post lol. Someday when I'm retired out of trucking I can really spill the beans on the HOS murder I got away with over the years. I have heard of drivers in my situation up there logging On Duty to scoop up their detention pay while they were actually sleeping then later on a day or so later going back and editing their logs to capture back some driving hours.