Boss wants to put everyone OTR on salary?

Maybe the boss can have a gauranteed minimum miles pay. Then pay extra if driving more miles. Also pay detention pay separately. Also pay $100 extra if driver works the weekend and if driver works two weekends in a row they pay $200 extra.

That's how I get paid. I'm gauranteed the first 2500 miles. If I drive more then I get paid the rate per mile for all miles. We are suppose to get $20 hour detention pay, first 2 hours are free.and the detention pay mean we can't be late for pickup or delivery for it to kick in. But dispatch seems to not be giving or planning that into the dispatch. I get loads I can't pickup on time or deliver.

The $100 and $200 weekend pay is layover pay for not getting home. We do 34 reset every weekend

I'm supposed to be OTR but I get short runs of 100 miles. I'm not getting anything extra for stop pay and I might only drive 300 mile a day and use my 14 hours.

This week I started out short runs for three days. Now they want to send me out on 550 mile runs and I bet they won't get me home this weekend so they will have to pay me the $100 extra weekend lay over. It like dispatch realize they won't make the the miles on my truck so instead of letting me go home(because I'm getting a gauranteed minimum pay) now they decided to run my truck miles and that will mean driving Saturday also.

I like gauranteed minimum pay every week but it like I did all them shorts runs for a set price. Thinking ok I can do this because I'm going home for the weekend. Now that weekend is coming up and dispatch needs to hit the numbers I guess now they want us to run the miles and of course that mean not getting home.

 

i run a dedicated route, and i like dedicated. same stops, same pay, same days off, same everything.

when i did long haul, i liked the pay, as i ran my butt off and bugging the crap out of dispatch to keep me moving. i made money, so they made money, simple concept.

in your situation, unless you run the same miles, same route, then i'd say BS to the bosses idea. i think he wants to just get out of the responsibility of paying you and the others the proper wages for all miles driven.

in my case, if i have to run out of route, and the boss has me do so because i have to make a special drop off or pick up, he "throws" an additional $100 at me. which is good, for at least, he does not take advantage of running me more miles for less money.

so unless your boss "throws at you" some extra cash for running out of route, then i'd say you have at the very least, 2 choices

1) stay

2) leave

let us know what you decide?

 

How much is the salary he is offering? That could sway me if the numbers were high enough

 

What's the pay? If they paid actual hours on the job you'd be getting 100+ hours overtime for OTR. But of course they don't think living at work counts, do they.

 

OR isn't available usually for long haul operations.

I've got a local friend who dont get OT because they have long haul trucks. He gets 20 an hour up to 50 hours per week.

 

When I was a trainer with FFE, I was paid around 2000 gross weekly which came out to #### near 1600 net.

At that point I don't care anymore what the truck does, miles run, not run, loads unloaded, loaded etc. None of that matters anymore. Whatever is required will be done. The salary covers all that. And eliminates the drama of feast and famine.

When my spouse stopped training my salary went away, and we went back to a miles to the truck system. Some weeks we did better than 2K, other weeks not so much.

After my experiences that year, salary is the key to the industry's future. Whatever your truck does does not matter anymore with a salary. All YOU need to do is BUDGET and build savings in case your job and salary went away for whatever reason. Remember this employment is "At will" between you and your employer.

A salary is a very good thing to have. That eliminates much of the drama, whining, problems or whatever. Everyone can focus on the work. If you don't like the salary you are getting? You are free to change companies.

 

Mr. E and I are salaried at a small company. For the most part we're paid more than mileage. Sometimes a lot more, but of course there are those weeks when you're the bug not the windshield. In our case, it works out overwhelmingly in our favor. It might not for everyone.

 

I'm thinking all time at shipper will be on duty in a salary based job just chewing up the clock as it should be but seldom is on a mileage based system

 

What is the salary pay? Maybe I missed it?