Not a new driver, but not sure what forum to post this question?
A friend of mine took a local job hauling aggregates in bottom dumps. The company advertised $17.00 an hour. This is in Northern CA where unemployment is still very high, and wages are depressed from the recession and foreclosure crisis. I almost applied for the same job, but decided to hang back and see how it worked out for her first.
She busted her butt for 10 to 12 (sometimes 14) hours a day for two solid weeks. Her paycheck for those two weeks was $500. When she inquired, the company told her that they only pay for the miles she was loaded.
I've worked in aggregates. I don't know if my experience was typical, but it seemed I spent a majority of my day driving from the yard to the quarry and back at the start/end of the day, or dead-heading back to the shop in the middle of the day because something on my truck broke. The company used the quarries closest to the job site, and so very few of the miles were actually loaded. Going from the quarry to job site to deliver a load was usually the equivalent of running around the block.
Can a company advertise hourly wages, and then only pay for loaded miles? Yes, she should have inquired more before she took the job. But, in this neck of the woods, hourly pay is assumed to be all hours worked. The idea that "hourly pay" meant anything else seemed absurd to her, me, and everybody I've asked in this area.
Is this legal?
Hourly pay for loaded miles only... Is this legal?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by sexystuff911, Aug 7, 2014.
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Hey SS911, wow, it never ceases to amaze me the crummy tactics companies come up with to gouge their drivers. Again, proof positive, the reason there is a job opening, is someone else got disgusted and quit. I've had several dump truck jobs, and the ones that were by the hour, I punched the clock and got paid for every minute I was on the clock. Like snowwy says, % was much more of an accurate way of getting paid in the dump truck industry. It sounds like the company twisted the pay, to make it sound more attractive. It's hard to say if they broke any laws, but morally and ethically, this is terrible.
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