asking for/demanding full scale pay ??

You agreed to the terms when you hired on. If you think your performance warrants a raise, Just ask. If you don't like their reply.
Change jobs.
Good luck.

 

Walk into Mr Slates Office and tell him exactly what you just wrote.

Where is the money?

 

You have another job lined up?

 

Companies have a pay scale system for a reason. In case you haven't figured it out it is to reward and retain employees for their longevity with the company.

We once had a dock worker that busted his hump and went above and beyond to keep things running smoothly. We all agreed that he was worth more than we were paying him. Even our terminal manager wanted to pay him more but couldn't . Had that dock worker gotten a raise, every single pay structure in the region would have to be revamped to accommodate every single dock worker that works for us.

Anyway... Long story short, the answer is absolutely not. You will not get full pay until you reach the requirements that corporate set for your position. You can not jump scale without doing the same to every single person that has worked there one day longer than you.

If you think you are being paid unfairly or are doing more than you are being compensated for, you can either bring it up to management (and probably be labeled as a complainer) or just suck it up if the job is worth the long term. Either way, good luck.

 

Sorry if I came off as pompous or a douche during my last comment. There used to be four people running our route. Two guys quit and me and another guy have been picking up the excess for the past year. Long stressful hours hustling all the freight in a short time frame cause they also want to cut the hours. We never hired replacements since two drivers can do the work of four. Major saving on my company at our expense. I should be getting paid at least 33% more than I am now cause I do twice the work.

This aint selling insurance or cars at a commission. Trucking is one of the most underpaid and under appreciated fields in the workforce. You will get paid less than what you are actually worth. They will milk your efforts till your nipples turn purple.

 

Or drop dead. Or sent to prison for killing someone while sleeping on the wheel at 70 mph. Or caught and eviscerated financially for running 3 logbooks and god knows what else.

Anything happens? YOU burn while the boss YELLS> WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE *&^ TRUCK!!!! Eff you, it's about his precious truck. Understand?

You work really hard for hours in that trailer moving big stuff, small stuff 5000 little boxes of spices wrestling with a 5 inch thick spreadsheet print out 2 feet wide tracking every #### one of those little ########. You pay illegals 500 dollars to see half your #### stolen or lost or OSD and billed back to you personally because you gotta get some sleep on the dock.

24 hours unloading your trailer after driving 600 miles? Suck it up princess, you will discover there is absolutely NOTHING anywhere in the Laws, Regulations and our precious FMCSA that prevents this abuse of your labor so that the reciever does not spend a penny extra on more souls to do heavy labor sorting orders to match the stores.

Need I go on? I can if you like. Im on a roll tonight. Thank you kindly for your wonderful post. Story of my life.

 

This practice seems more common in union shops. If it's intolerable to you, vote with your feet and find other employment that does not do this. I can virtually guarantee you that you will get absolutely zero traction by asking for it. Not only will you be branded a complainer, you'll catch flak from your coworkers who have stuck to it and made it past the 18 month threshold. Places that operate like this do not tend to pay based on productivity.

 

18 months is pretty quick. The company I chose has 3 years to hit full pay. In speaking of an ltl job you should still be getting a good paycheck or compensation regardless. We get paid pretty well and above most.