Pay on loads

See section (g)
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/376.12.htm

 

There are ways of getting around that, for example: If in your lease it says contractor will recieve 75% or AGR(Adjusted Gross Revenue) that means they can take money right off the top and be legal. If your lease says 75% of 100% then they are in the wrong.

 

Accurate pay has been a problem as long as owner-operators have been paid a percentage of gross revenue. Good companies that I worked for had been taken to court by their percentage drivers and owner-operators. The companies lost. These were companies owned by families upstanding in their communities and churches. Apparently, they felt skimming the rates was necessary to stay in business.

Drivers may be able to determine the actual rate from the shipper. It may have been easier in the days of published freight rates. In 1964, I rode with an owner-operator pulling gravel train on road construction. He was leased to a contractor, but he also had his own authority. I don't understand it, but with his own authority he had access to what seemed to be state-wide uniform rates on various bulk commodities.

Another source of information is other drivers who have been paid for similar loads from the same shipper. I don't think drivers congregate and compare notes as we did in the old days. We stayed in the same motels, ate in the same restaurants, and had all day to cuss and discuss before dispatch which took place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There were occasions where three drivers hauling three loads side by side, and each one was paid differently. Of course, the company had the excuse that the freight was billed as one rail car shipment. I took that one to the union and lost.

 

I hope "well lower than the pump price" has been $.35 - $.40 cents lately .
http://www.ooida.com/Swimming_shark...mming_sharks/MAR fuel surcharge kit_print.htm

 

That was a good link . Don't know what happened . This one is not as good but still gives good info . http://www.tbabz.com/AssessingFuelSurcharge.htm