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I am a company driver, paid by mileage rate pay with additional stop pay. I am paid for all the work I do including fueling, pretrips ect as all that is included in with mileage rate based pay.

 

Please explain to me how the fueling, pre/post trips are included in the milage rate based pay?

 

I did in my previous posts but I will try again. First off, do you understand the concept of piecework?

 

Piecework is a compensation model where workers are paid a fixed rate per unit produced or task completed, rather than by the hour.

As a company driver, I am paid a fixed rate to complete a task, piecework. All the details necessary to complete the task are included in the fixed rate pay.

I am not paid 'by the mile' so-to-speak, I am paid a fixed rate to deliver a load and that rate is based on mileage.

 

Assume starting with an empty at a truck stop after a 34. 50 miles to the shipper, then 950 to consignee, drop and hook on both ends. 15 minute pre trip, 30 minutes to d/h on either end, 15 minutes to fuel, 15 minutes to post trip, 15 minute pre trip, - 2 hours on duty plus 19 hours of driving.

At 70 cpm that's $700.

At 66 cpm and $20/hr for all on duty time is still $700.

At $34/hr for all on-duty and drive time - it's still $700ish.

Regardless of the pay structure, the total pay ends up being the same. The 70 cpm actually has the highest income potential because if the driver can get the on duty parts of the job done in under 1.5 hours their hourly rate goes up. Plus it leaves more time on the 70 for the next job. A couple years ago Schneider transitioned from a CPM with accessory pay for short haul and detention to a CPM with hourly for on duty time logged. It resulted in a 3% pay cut for me. The pay structure is less important than gross pay divided by total work.

 

And also profit sharing money...I ended up with around $28,000 for 14 years at Crete

 

Thank you. I've never been paid by the mile so I wasn't sure how it worked. What happens if you have a breakdown? Are you compensated for all of that time? I see a lot of people have sat at the dock for hours. Are you compensated for all of that time as well?

 

I clearly said we got breakdown pay, detention pay and even paid for 9 hours for delays from weather if we sit for 24 hours.....

 

Even if we have to go recover a truck somewhere, we get paid our mileage rate while driving the rental car as well

 

It depends, and is why a driver should always ask about accessory pay. Even if the time isn't explicitly compensated, its still figured into the piece rate. Some days you get screwed, some days you make out like a bandit. You just have to look at the whole picture.