Chain Pay?

seriously?? with the number of bad drivers they have?

tarping costs are passed onto the customer, it is part of the shipment.

chaining is when you are required to do something that is required for you to drive safely, no matter if you are empty or fully loaded AND the customer doesn’t get charged for it.

 

Interested in what you use. Do you have a link or name of the cables?

 

We pay our drivers by the hour so they get paid to chain. Around here if you don't chain you don't work very much in the winter. We do a lot of short regional and it isn't unusual for a driver to chain up three or four times a day.

I don't think we've ever figured chaining into our rates and I don't know anyone who does. I made a couple of phone calls after I read your post and two of our friendly competitors got a good laugh out of charging the customer to chain.
Tell you what, some of our customers will be at the Elk's tonight for a dinner. I'll wait till they get good and boozed up and spring the "getting paid to chain" idea on them. Should be hilarious.

 

Honor system. Plus, even though our guys get paid to chain nobody in their right mind is gonna chain one more time than they absolutely have to.

 

If I have to chain up I am asking a lot over Spot market. Not gonna risk my truck and time for pennies. Not everyone thinks that way I guess but for me I want better rates for anything that no one else wants to do.

 

I am from Midwest and If I go to mountains during winter I charge a lot more for that. Guess if you are local in that area then it is different.

 

I get paid to chain and fuel. I don't understand why getting paid for services you are doing for a company is a bad thing? And if these services are "part of the job" then why do them for free? A job is what you do to earn money, right? Then why do said job for free?

 

some companies don't pay to tarp

 

Your preaching to the choir...I'am my own company...My rates are the same as most everybody else's that pull a cow wagon...I've had the same customers for the last 20+ years..I don't haul cheap loads..
I always figured the loads I haul in the summer at the same rate offset the the times I have to throw iron in the winter...My customers would laugh me out of the business if I told them I was charging them a chain up fee
So in your greedy simple mind what should I charge when I have to panel up my wagon? & should I charge for having to put my muck boots & coveralls on when I load & unloadtoo ? It sounds like you would ..
I wash out 3 or 4 times a week it's figured into my rates
I wear blue jeans and boots

 

20 mph max