Hourly over mileage. Maybe some day?

Drivers are not dropping fast, if a company has to have a signing bonus, then they need to review their company and its image.

 

I believe paying by the hour would address the detention time,drivers would be getting for all the time they are working.

 

Are you sure about that? Are you sure a company is going to pay you for 3 hours while you play on your laptop as you're being unloaded?

Me thinks probably not gonna happen.

 

I'm on hourly and I did the math to compare. I average 57 cpm .

 

I put all my guys on Hourly on March 1st, I am paying them 22.00 across the board, whether that is loading, unloading, sitting in line at the truck wash, fueling, walking around an auction, pre trip etc.

So far, so good, they are grossing around the 1600.00 mark, (roughly an extra 150.00 per week) and I get a sense that my equipment is being taken better care of, and nobody is fudging their on duty/off duty time, I am also in return have not had a damage claim, or a dirty truck and guys are a lot more forgiving if we have a small wait time to add another piece to the load. I just hope it all evens out at the end of the year....................

 

That's one of the problems with the hourly model for otr drivers, the question of what gets paid. Do you get paid to sit and talk to your wife or play video games while getting loaded? What if that load time extends to ten hours while you are sleeping and becomes your ten hour break?

What about the time you spend waiting on a load after getting unloaded? What if that period of time turns into your ten hour break?

 

Then you'll see just how often they CAN manage to get you home.
Those lanes just magically opened up !!

 

Its not the drivers fault he has to sit for three hours.If you were working any other profession once you start to work you get paid until you go home. I take the example of heavy equipment operators,can you you tell one of them after they start working that your not ready for them and to sit three more hours ,and oh you won't be getting paid for it.I think not.

 

I can't believe how brainwashed truckers have become.They think they should only be getting paid when the truck is moving.That's like working at a factory and only getting paid when the assembly line is moving.