How much should I get paid an hour for touch freight

Like sysco, etc?
Or like a reefer hauler that delivers to Wal-Mart, and other various receivers where the driver is expected to unload it or hire a lumper ?

 

I usually charge 250 an hour for touching people

 

Different ways of getting paid for humping freight:

Pennies per hundredweight
Flat rate stop pay
Pennies per piece
Flat rate lumper reimbursement--"rent-a-crook", or DIY and pocket the money

"Our drivers are DRIVERS, not dockmen. We REQUIRE use of lumper services, and we reimburse all fees".....

Or as others have said, you graciously donate your time to your valued customer on behalf of your company.....

Full disclosure, I worked a month for CRST in the '90s, then quit and got into tanker work. Tankers have their own version of this:

Get paid hourly for loading/unloading from arrival.

Get paid hourly load/unload after first two hours.

"Accesorial pay"-- $10 per load/unload, $10 for pump off/air Off, hourly after two plus loaded mileage.....

Or in my case I get a percentage of the linehaul which covers all miles and accessorials, plus hourly detention after 2 hrs.

Bottom line, decide what method you can live with, and work somewhere that pays you that way.

Or better yet, go tanker, so that you never have to fingerprint any freight. You can find a tanker job with low/no experience. You just have to dig harder for it.

 

I think most of those guys make an hourly rate. They make good money but it is demanding work.

 

For me to unload a trailer would cost more than anyone could afford. Anyway, if you aren’t making more than 30 an hour base, all in, I wouldn’t do it.

 

The key first is trying to find a pallet jack at the warehouse that they'll let you use, amazing how they all seem to disappear when you choose to unload yourself.