Since you work for a good company........

I get 8 hours of my regular hourly rate. I will be spending it with 2 of my kids since they will be spending Christmas with there mom. This is a real blessing for me since I use to work for a BFI and couldn't afford to take holidays off. Oh wait, they did reimburse your Thanksgiving dinner up to $10 if you faxed in the receipt.
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I wish every driver could be home to enjoy.

 

My affiliate owner pays for the major holidays . We get extra pay for holiday and Sunday deliveries . When I was single I used to work holidays so another driver could spend the time with his family . Now that I'm married ...I like being married .
We also get bereavement pay . A few years ago my stepson died . His funeral wasn't on a scheduled work day so I didn't put in a request for bereavement pay . They gave me 2 days bereavement pay anyway .

 

Petro and T/A are charging $12.99 (plus drink and tip ) for the dinner this year .

 

I work for Eagle hauling gas. Turkey day, Christmas, and New Years are $75 extra+ regular pay. They are my regular work days.

 

In my pvt. fleet days , yes Billy. 8 to be off, double if I worked to 8 and double and a half after 8....

And yes I traded with other married men for the "call" on Thanksgiving and Christmas and vacations. Single guys usually jumped up for the cash and I did too early on when it didn't matter. $100 extra was paid to the senior man ( like me ) to backup ( telephone ) the jr. guys if they got in a bind on a blend etc.

 

I am not working on thanksgiving, I am on my home time.

I don't think we get extra pay if we do, but I do know if you work on thanksgiving, you can swing by an operating center and get a free thanksgiving turkey dinner.

 

Just depends on what's important to each person, and their financial situation I guess.