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

transport america doesnt pay holiday pay or bonus or any of that lucky stuff. but since im single and dont care to be home its ok. my dispatcher loves me for it so i get the top pick of loads.

 

I set my home time for the holiday and got home with no problems

 

Con-way Truckload, we are paid $60.00 for holiday, 7 paid holidays, regardless if you work them or not.
Thanksgiving, if your on the road working, you get reimbursed up to $15 for a turkday meal.
Also at Christmas time, there is a Christmas bonus of $25 per year of employment.
If you are there for 10 years, get $250 bucks.

 

I run local, so we are always home for the holidays, but you have to be available to work the day before and the day after to get paid. So, if you take a vacation day before or they don't need all the trucks, you loose out on the pay. Sometimes out Mgr will give you some "shop time" so you qualify. Your pay is figured based on some sort of formula based on the number of hours you worked the year before.
When I was at TWA, I had more then my share of working weekends and holidays. Don't need any more of that. Actually, I need to start thinking about not working weekdays too. But, I still like my job, and I can still do it.

 

Rolling east on I-80 in PA last night I had the privilege of hearing an Ozark driver telling another that his dispatcher told him that since he was home last weekend he didn't need to be home for Thanksgiving.

 

I have both today and Friday off. We get paid 8 hours of straight time each day. The catch like some have said is you have to have worked the previous Wednesday and the following Monday unless you have a scheduled vacation. That just extends your vacation by two days.

Now if you choose to work on one of our 12 paid holidays, we are paid at doubletime and a half.

So I chose to take my usual 340 mile today. Since I could not re-load the tanker today, I will have to load the tanker at 3:30 on Monday. That's a 2:30am wake up. That's what I call crack head hours. I'm solar powered.

Started at 3am and was home by 1:20. 10 easy hours except for some traffic. $642.30 for the day and I was home in plenty of time for dinner. Now I can't see my own toes over my boiler and I know i saw them this morning.

So yes, there are good companies out there. They are just not easy to find.

Hope all the drivers were home with there families.

Drive safe

 

I would have gathered up my on the road holiday leftovers, bagged them up, then mailed them to the dispatcher with a nice little letter explaining to him that when I got back to the terminal I would be showing him how to stuff the leftovers down his throat.

 

Paid both days. I'm making money sitting here drinking beer

 

Yes there are good companies out there but you rarely ever see them advertising.

I am also paid for 6 holidays, 3 sick days, and 2 personal days ($265.00 per day). New hires get paid for 8 hours of work ($15.00 per hour I believe) for each paid day off.

Like some others have posted, I also get home on the weekends (every weekend) and still make a decent paycheck (1300 + on average). Not bad for a dry van company.

 

I emptied out Wed eve at 5pm
Called in and my dispatch said " turn and burn" to the house.
Oh yea I was over 500 miles from home and got paid to DH all the way home.