Which companies pay for layovers, loading/unloading, breakdowns etc., and how much?

Stevens will pay you breakdown pay after 24 hours, as well as a hotel. Stevens pays for lumpers. Stevens will pay detention on drops only (after two hours), you will wait several days on occasion to pick up a meat load, so no detention on picks.

 

Roehl Transport pays for all of those.

It's all here: http://www.goroehl.com/inexperiencedDriver/app/compensation/extra_pay.aspx

There's some more, but I'm almost done with a week of home time, so my mind isn't back in the game yet.

http://www.goroehl.com/default.aspx


Good luck!

 

Sorry but you will never find an OTR company that pays for all of your on duty time. Never going to happen. Unless of course you like to work for free while waiting for their BS pay to kick in. If you want to get paid properly, find a good local company. Please don't believe that you need to do OTR before you go local. I never did a day of OTR in my life. If you fall into the trap of "you have to start somewhere", and you believe OTR is that somewhere, you are short changing yourself.

If you don't believe me, by all means, apply to the OTR carriers. Good luck!

 

If your wanting paid for all on duty time you need to look at companies that own trucks not trucking companies..gotta get on with a private fleet or a union carrier..most jobs that pay for all time spent are going to be local or regional ....LTL fleets (union and prob non-union) industrial gas , dairy, bakery etc. there are a few great paying jobs you just have to look outside the box...also many if not all of these jobs are going to be senoirity based,so you will have to pay your dues nights and weekends and crappy routes till you get your time in ..but way better than living in a sleeper for $500.00 a week..

 

Those benefits are hard to find in van and reefer work, a little more common for flatbedders, private fleets, and food grade tanker drivers; that kind of accessorial pay is more or less standard in chemical, cryogenics, LTL, government clearance, and oversize hauling. There are lots of other kinds of niche and specialized trucking that have better pay structures than OTR trucking, too. But each company is different and you'd really have to ask each one individually. Every driver will also have to ask him or herself what exactly they're looking for and what trade-offs they're willing to accept.