so you're on a rotating schedule with two routes.
You make $1000 a week with that schedule.
You're paid to wait because you are paid by the route, not by the hour.
A lot of other jobs will pay you for that wait time but locally you won't make $1000 a week.
Why do drivers have to accept freebies
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by ad356, Dec 3, 2017.
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I have had my cdl about a year with 6 months of that driving dump truck, I'm going to stick with this for a while and gain needed tractor trailer experience. Heck it's also tanker. The rural route is nice. If I sit at a plant more then two hours I get suplimental but the plant knows this and they will make sure you sit exactly two hours.
Too those who say I should have never taken it, your options are limited with only having a cdl 1 year.
I know otr drivers putg up with the same crap, really no one should work for free.Toomanybikes Thanks this. -
Why you people keep rationalizing unpaid time is beyond me.
In the summer I regularly hit my 70. I don't like working that much but 30 hours of OT makes for a nice check.
What if the company paid you for everything you actually did and you made more? Would that be a bad thing?Toomanybikes and bottomdumpin Thank this. -
I average about 60 hours per week, which calculates out to $16-$17 per hour, with no overtime rate.
I keep seeing various news reports of driver shortages. Gee I wonder why. It's self inflicted, I bet there are a ton of people that hold a cdl that are working in factories and other occupations.
Why is it wrong to not want pay for ALL of my time? It's not my fault the plant is backed up, not my fault the farmer isn't done milking. These entities should be paying my boss, and he should turn around and pay me for sitting.
I say this should happen if any driver sits more then 15 minutes, I bet we won't sit anymore. I get to the farms nearly the same time everyday.Toomanybikes and Bean Jr. Thank this. -
I feel your anguish, but the world doesn't work like clockwork, especially in the trucking biz. Again, you want to get paid for every minute, I suggest a factory, or dock work, or drive by the hour. You'd be amazed at how these places change their tune when they find out you are hourly.
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We both put in the same amount of hours for the same pay. It's just broken down differently, which makes no difference to me. It's exactly like I said, if your weekly pay is worth the hours you put in, then great. If it ain't, then move on.
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Why a lot of drivers don't get paid for everything they do is a question that's been asked for decades. The answer is really quite simple, those that came before us accepted it and we've continued to accept it. I don't see it changing anytime soon either.
Even IF OTR companies would pay by the hour or some other type of pay you for all your on duty time, does anyone really believe they'd increase your pay? I don't. I believe they would just lower the mileage rate, cut miles, etc. to make sure their payroll stays the same.
I'm hourly and wouldn't work for run pay, mileage pay, percentage pay, or any other "incentivized" pay structure ever again. Sure when the world is working perfectly your "hourly" pay seems pretty good, but, this is trucking and we all know things rarely work that way.
So you have to make a choice, stick with mileage/percentage/run pay or change jobs to get hourly pay.201 Thanks this. -
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