Overtime pay ! Make it happen .

If you don't like the conditions of your employment you are always free to find something else.

A "kickstarter for proper representation with all drivers putting up a small amount"?
Is it you that we would send our money to?
And you would never get 'all drivers' in this deal. The logistics are impossible.


The only way this industry will change more in favor of the drivers is if drivers simply stopped driving until it was done.
And that won't happen unless things get a LOT worse.

 

A fraction of the industry may behave in this manner, but most of the truckers I know get the job done no matter the circumstance.

 

Yeah okay. You're comparing driving a 40 ton behemoth that transports hundreds of thousands of dollars of cargo to a job even a retarded kid can do. BTW the burger flippers did get together and demanded $15 an hour for their services. I'm not against that but by comparison a local truck driver should be making at least $25 an hour and OTR 60cpm.

 

Really? Says who? So all drivers should earn the same wage? Regardless of experience or what they bring to the table, good or bad? Regardless whether we're talking about a job in San Diego or San Antonio? Sounds pretty socialist to me .... Someone deciding such matters. Ask the people in Venezuela how it works out when a few decide how the many "subjects" will exist.

If/when qualified drivers become truly fewer in numbers then is needed, pay will rise. But in the mean time we'll just have to settle for small COLA raises here and there, or take your butt somewhere else where "it's more appreciated" and where you're "paid what you're worth" whatever that is in YOUR mind.

 

Apples and oranges six.....

I think the proper solution is something that's already been brought up by congress, which is compensating truck drivers for all time spent at work/on duty.

Compensated time should include duties including but not limited to, kept hostage by a warehouse while draining a 14 hour clock, fueling the truck, inspecting the truck and trailer for defects, waiting in the shop for a truck to get repaired, waiting more than a certain arbitrary time past your ten for a dispatch, being stuck in traffic during rush hour or due to an accident on the interstate, filing and filing out paperwork, being detained by DOT or any authorities, and clock in to clock out time at any shipper or receiver.

In addition, there should be a provision which extends a drivers 14 hour clock by two hours as long as they are off duty between the hours of 7-9 am and 3-5 pm for the entire two hours. The provision would only be allowed on trucks with e logs or in some fashion that would prove that hours were not manipulated.

 

Says who? Common sense over corporate greed. The average truck driver in 1980 made just over $100k a year when adjusted for inflation. Are you telling us $15 an hour is fair compensation for driving a tractor trailer locally? And I never said all drivers should make the same wage but rather $25 an hour should be the starting pay. More experienced and specialized drivers should make more.

 

With respect youre living in fantasy land if you think a bunch of truck drivers rally for better and overtime pay will make a difference.I do however think companies should pay something for all on duty activities since according to the logs you are working.But you're working for free.There are some of the better companies that pay for everything done on line4 .I know an asphalt company that pays that plus an hourly wage.But they are also a local company.The cheap mega companies won't pay anything extra extra except detention and maybe brkdown pay but even that's a slap in the drivers face and shows just what so many companies really think of their drivers mainly the starter companies.So with all that said,you either settle for what you're making or find a different company to drive for that does pay better.

 

Is it?

Have you seen the people they're recruiting in trucks nowadays? Have you not heard the talk about dropping the age to 18? Have you seen the trucks the megas are going to, full of cattleprods and tattletales? Who do you think they're designing that truck for? Have you ever heard of the Dumb and Dumber program that thing companies have been doing for at least a decade now?

 

The problem with a flat base, or hourly for otr, excc.. is the fall out. Like the 15 for burger flipping. They will hire fewer people for the job. Give less then 32 hours a week to avoid unemployment and benefits stuff... drivers could get more pay, they would hire fewer drivers, and expect more from them. It just increases inflation..