Life in North Dakota "Man Camps"?

#1 does not apply to trucking....#2 I'm not sure about what is required, but no way I would work percentage without seeing the numbers.

 

% pay is tricky. Some companies come clean and others don't. I know our OOs always think they are getting shafted. But they are not allowed to see the real pay. Some have threatened and they were gone or not loaded. Most make plenty but I can see them wanting to know for sure.
Someone trying to cobb you???

 

Overtime pay is usually anything over 40. Some states have an anything over eight in a day is OT but not all of them. I believe California is one and Arizona might be.

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Interstate (must regularly travel out of their home state) trucking companies are exempt from paying overtime. This law goes back over 100 years. All interstate commerce was exempted (Rail and Trucking) from OT, then Rail got there section overturned and here we are. If you are paid OT from an interstate company, it is because they want to keep you.

 

Just a little FYI, the law doesn't go back a 100 years, it started with Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which defined hours and wages and OT. Trucking and other transportation workers were exempt because of the nature of the job except if they were part of a union. Rail was exempt under the FLSA but they were covered under other laws and regulations.

 

Trucking companies, long ago, got exemption from overtime laws. The drivers are screwed in this respect (in a bad way). It is an injustice, in my opinion, but then I am just a voting citizen who pays the bills for all the clowns in government. They're not asking me.

Most firms paying percentage pay for nothing but what you haul from A to B. No pay for anything else, unless you negotiate it before signing the contract. And unless they are desperate for drivers, they won't give one cent more than their contract says. Most office staff up here wouldn't know how to modify a contract anyway. They're brain-dead or evil, or both. That said, a few of the big companies allow shift drivers to bill out to 12 hours per day even if they don't work all 12 hours, or if they work part of the day and then have a breakdown, or if you sit and wait all day for the client to give the go-ahead to actually start work. You will make less money working for the big boys and running legal hours, but there are perks to working for them.

One final note on pay. Mortgage companies will sooner give you a home loan if you work hourly instead of percentage. YMMV.

 

Ya if your not getting overtime, leave...most do..that's #1 reason for moving to oilpatch!!! The overtime!!

I wouldn't bother with whether its illegal or not, just go where they pay it

Housing? Def the maker or breaker..

I got into my $900 dollar fema trailer and there was a stinkinass stinkbag picking his feet up on the coffee table, 2 guys speaking Arabic, one deaf guy, and 2 mechanics that hated everybody..It was a small bunk bed I couldn't fit on..I was in hell

If I goback, I will pick a company based on their housing...Def need target logistics at least

 

I'm not in the oilfield , but I am in trucking and get paid by the hour...at our company atleast anything after 40 is time and a half...not 8 hours a day. Dont know about other places though

 

This sounds like a nightmare... glad I'm getting a camper for my truck.