How do you figure that? Let's say Driver A picks up a load, drives 400 miles, and drops the trailer at a customer. Driver B from the same outfit picks up a load from the same place later, drives the same 400 miles, only he gets stuck in an hour long traffic jam.
If they were both making .37 cpm then they both got paid the same on mileage pay. Except that Driver B got screwed because he sat an hour for free in a traffic jam. He made the same money as Driver A even tho he worked longer.
I don't see how that wasted time is built into the mileage pay. Years ago, Driver B could just POOF make that hour disappear on his paper logs but with ELD's he can't do that anymore.
Why do drivers have to accept freebies
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Now, if at the end of the week/month/year, driver A is consistently getting the same miles in less time than driver B, then we can start talking about which driver is the better performer and more adept at trip planning, but that is a whole different discussion.
I am paid hourly, $18 per hour with ot after 40 hours. So yeah, I get paid for all the time I sit in the dock or on the side of the road. But even I get screwed sometimes, like doing local yard work in Chicagoland all day, sweating bullets and fighting traffic and racing the clock. On those days I’d love to make more than $18 an hour. But then the next day I might only do two stops and get paid to take an hour+ nap. It all comes out in the wash.diesel drinker, spyder7723, gokiddogo and 1 other person Thank this. -
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Of course dispatchers and planners have desires and truck drivers have sleepers. Don't forget the loading dock personal too, they have needs too. I remember one instance where the desk jockeys could never figure out why everybody is late to this simple 160mile run. They had 14 hours to do it. The office staff at the mega handed out service failures left and right for this one run: Literally like 50 service failures for every driver except this one driver. What did he do different? Well, simply he took the receiver for a ride in his sleeper while his truck was being unloaded. To keep that level of service up, the gal in receiving would lock out all other drivers while calling up the trucking company to complain about the loads not getting there. The einstiens in the front office never could figure this out; they just handed service failures out like candy. -
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