Detention Theory

Oops, I stumbled in here thinking this was Detention Myth..........................

 

I have been doing this for years and I wish everyone would do the same. The old days of two log books and multiple licenses are over. "We'll get it there no matter what it takes" makes for a cool movie but those days are long gone.

My company wonders why I log 30 minutes for a pretrip instead of 15. I became aware of a court case where the driver had seriously injured someone, he had been logging 15 minute pretrips for years but when the court brought a rig into the parking lot, he could not recreate the full inspection in less than 32 minutes. One he was shown to have falsified his logbook repeatedly, he was not able to stay out of prison. Yes, he went to prison.

The vast majority of drivers are lying and falsifying their logbooks in order to get the job done. This behavior benefits others (shippers, carriers, brokers) and has been a detriment to us as a group. Why do you think many shippers and consignees take 1 hour and 59 to load or unload you? Because they get two hours of your time for free, that's why. Have your dispatcher work the first and last two hour segments of his shift for free and see how long that lasts.

Join OOIDA, join a political action committee, call your congressman. Most importantly document what is really happening. People will listen if you have facts. They will ignore irate drivers cussing at them on the phone.

One last thing: please visit truckersagainsttrafficking.com and read the information there. This is a vulgar, disgusting practice that is happening right in front of our eyes. It must be stopped.

 

Really? If the drivers were going to do this... (as I had been saying for years).. they would have done this BEFORE all the victim mentality started.. Drivers crapped their own nest and all the good companies that paid anything are gone! Too late to complain about a situation that the super truckers created and allowed to flourish! Truckers as a whole have the same mentality of a lot of abused partners do.. they get abused and beaten.. but will defend the abused to the hilt against DA MAN! ...

 

My company already does this. After 2 hours we start charging the place for detention. If I'm stopped for any reason I leave it on duty. I'm also paid hourly Otr tanker yanker.

 

Ok i,m going to bring this up as acreefer guy most reefer loads pay a premium to justify time spent in fact i pay my driver for detention washouts etc because really it,s in my rates .....now if your carriers not compensating you in a manner that you consider fair thats on you find a new one but cutting your productivity will only make my rates go up so have at it

 

It's not cutting productivity. Drivers should be paid for everything on line 3 AND 4. Most companies only pay for driving. Why? Is that all we do?

 

So deal with your company at the end of the day if your making 65 or 70 k does it matter how it,s broken down wether they pay you 5 $ to fuel the truck or not

 

What Otr company pays their drivers 65k? I have yet to see one that wants to pay over $1000 a week.

 

My goal with drivers i have hired is to maintain a 1200 a week min your setting your sights too low