Minimum Wage=Truckers Rights ??

I make more than minimum wage for all the hours I work. A trucker that is not is not a trucker, but a parking spot holder.

 

Exactly what frdr, is saying. You chose these POS jobs, knowing they pay Crap, then whine about it. Wrong, bad choice. Then you have the foreigners doing it for nothing, then whine about a repair, costing SOOO much. Well the old days, you charge enough to make a profit and cover your repairs. Dummies these days, have a so called pay check, looks not bad, until you pay all your bills, fuel, taxes, REPAIR, then look at your check, $100.00. Eventually they will learn.

 

If you have a job that only pays you even remotely near the minimum wage. May I be the first to inform you, YOUR JOB SUCKS. You should run, not walk a way from wages like that.

LOL Good Gravy man, are you serious?

 

Detention pay and layover pay are myths to many company drivers. Like unicorns and honest politicians. We get promised the pay at orientation, but never see it in the paychecks after we cross all the company t's and dot the company i's to earn the pay.

 

I think this is a very legitimate question. I know my employer has pulled some less than legal pay practices with me in a couple of instances.

For Example:
One day my manager pieced out my route and kept me back at the W.H. to build racks. I put in ten hours of rack building that day and come check time only received pay for 40 hours although I worked 50. Upon questioning this I was told that "out of position pay" does not count toward my hours for the week.

Again, in one instance I worked a 6th day and was only paid $90. When my regular pay is $103 a day plus $0.10 a case. They said 6th day pay is $90 flat.
So guess who is going home next time i'm asked to stay at the WH or who's not working a 6th day again?
Some one chime in if this seems less than fair!

 

Seems less than fair to me and I would be looking for another job probably. Where does this out of position pay end up going if not on your pay check?

 

The problem is that ever since the 1980s under Ragen the trucking industry has been exempt from US department of labor regulations with the argument that it falls under DOT. Any company that keeps there trucks going more then 120 miles from the adress of where the vehicle is registered it is exempt from all labor laws and regulations because it falls under DOT and DOT doesn't do anything about wage issues.

I am calling my congress men and I wish all drivers would do the same and letting them know that we need a drivers minimum salery for all over the road drivers even is there dispacher wants to make them sit at truck stops because if there more then 50 miles from and responsable for the truck they are working if there company wants to run them or not. I have all ready contacted senitor Patty Murry from my home state but this is for all drivers and all drivers need to do the same.

A driver that is paid a living wage is a much safer driver then these dime a dozen drivers that these big campanies keep talking about. I am organizing one driver at a time one day at a time. We need a driver minimum salery. I say it should be $500 a week if mileage pay isn't equal to or greater with 2 days of paid home time for every 5 days on the road more then 50 miles from home. I need all company drivers to call there congress men and US senitors and tell them that we need a drivers minimum salery if they want to roll hours of service back to 8 hours.

 

Goin company next month. Guess I'll find out soon enough. Been in the construction trade a while with my dad. We did work for a home builder who had a 30 list of reasons not to pay a vendor. Reason #30 was "other". Jimminy Cricket.

 

As the economy is bad there more and more of these so called dime a dozen drivers hitting the road many of them won't last as driver and some will grow into it. Uper level business managment don't show the hole picture when they say dime a dozen.

The higher mantanence cost and higher risk of accidents. The cost of hireing new drivers with a high turnover rate. They use there made up stats to intimidate drivers and cook the books for investers. The fact is that if these companies took care of there driver and started to see them as an investment instead of a draining expence and spent the same amount of money they spend on a revolving door of so called dime a dozen drivers the saveings from higher maintanence repair costs and less accident liability pay outs and high insurience preamums would more then make up.

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As the economy is bad there more and more of these so called dime a dozen drivers hitting the road many of them won't last as driver and some will grow into it. Uper level business managment don't show the hole picture when they say dime a dozen.

The higher mantanence cost and higher risk of accidents. The cost of hireing new drivers with a high turnover rate. They use there made up stats to intimidate drivers and cook the books for investers. The fact is that if these companies took care of there driver and started to see them as an investment instead of a draining expence and spent the same amount of money they spend on a revolving door of so called dime a dozen drivers the saveings from higher maintanence repair costs and less accident liability pay outs and high insurience preamums would more then make up.