Detention pay

Detention pay is something that is a contractual agreement between the company and the customer. The company hates to charge it as they could lose business.

You should have a contract with your company and it should be clearly stated in that contract. Your employee handbook is your contract if you did not sign something else. Read it. Since the company wrote it, I would say you will probably find many times you deserve detention pay but don't actually get it.

 

First - Why doesn't your trainer know?

Second - Your a trainee, your not even dog vomit yet.

Your trainer should know this. You must be at Purina. Every customer is different. And there is the very real chance someone in planning or your dispatcher F it up somehow and you get left holding the bag. Welcome to company driving as a new guy.

I was getting $50/hr. as O/O after 3 hours. My contract was 80% of everything. So I actually only got $40.

Companies will talk BIG about detention pay, until it's time to pay up, then there is always some WHAAAAAAA story. And they all have a limit.

Did a drop once as company driver, detained like 14 hours, should have been $280 right? The head operations manager said I'll give $80 take it or leave it.

Being a trainee is rough. A good trainer helps. Even being new is rough. When you get released on your own, for the first six months you've only graduated up to dog meat.

Can I ask which company?