Chain Pay?

I add it to the rate con before I move just like you would if you were adding in detention pay waiting for en extended amount of time to unload or lumper pay if you needed. 2 sets of triples aren’t cheap and no matter how well you chain up they take wear. I’m just not giving it away for free. And by all means, you guys are willing to work cheaper then you can have at it. Definitely no arguments here.

 

nobody has said they are willing to work for free... the drivers that have experience running the northwest all believe they were or are paid a fair amount to do the job at hand.. which in the northwest , chaining is part of that.,...

 

Neither do I ...
So you should know how it works when your a O/O so why would you even ask those questions ??
Or do you think your the only 1 on here thats making money and the rest of us are broke & stupid ?

 

And the place I drove flatbed for paid us $50 per load whether we had to tarp or not. It’s all what anyone is ok working for and nobody can decide that except for themselves. Chances are when I was a company driver that the places offering chain pay might have lacked in other areas be it vacation or flexible in letting you take time off, there was likely a trade off. Good topic you brought up though.

 

I don't really drive if I need to chain up, but I'ma start charging bolt seal pay. Install and removal separate fees.

 

It’s not so much being against getting paid for that stuff it’s that once it sort of becomes an industry standard it can have the opposite effect if others are doing better off. For example, I am 100% against the government having their hands in anything dealing with detention pay. If the gov says $70 per hour detention to the truck after 2 hours what do you think will happen to the guys who negotiated to get $100 per hour after one hour? Or like when I pulled food grade pneumatic and we would get detention pay as soon as we showed up if the ordered the load and didn’t have room.