No mileage pay in California

It’s just all a “move the peanuts game”.
Mileage pay may be illegal in California but what carrier will do is pay “trip pay”, which is the same thing.

 

I think there's confusion what mileage pay is not given in california. I think what you're thinking of is mileage pay in terms of on the job. What's not allowed, I believe, is mileage reimbursement for driving "to" work before you're actual shift. I don't see anything related to mileage pay in terms of commercial driving being illegal in California. (I drive for an LTL carrier in California and make mileage pay for anything over a certain amount of miles on a run and hourly below that threshold)

 

I work for said carrier that will start paying after 50hrs for OT (in the same region as you are in, btw), and as far as I'm aware, everyone who works hourly (P&D) are still able to pick up linehaul runs (as "weekend warriors") and 99%+ of the time they're mileage runs. If you're going full Linehaul, pretty much every runs except for Shuttles and very few runs will be hourly. But if you're going P&D and want to run extra on the weekends, I guarantee you will be fine since they'll be mileage runs anways.

If you need some more specific info please don't hesitate to message me directly. I'm more than happy to help!

 

I can say that FedEx Freight pays a higher hourly rate for linehaul, but there is no OT for that.

Regular city work is the regular pay rate with OT after 8/40. You would actually make less than you should by doing linehaul on the weekend, since you would get linehaul pay in the mid to upper $30s/hr instead of OT in the upper $40s/hr.