$12/HR Local Hazmat Tanker

The labor board did tell me many years ago that if my average salary dropped below the minimum wage they could get involved but that was the only way. Trucking has never been required to pay time and half time though or double time.

 

Well that's pretty white of em ! Lol

 

84 Lumber ( Western PA ) pays CDL straight truck flatbed while operating a Moffett to remove product $9hr ( a Multi-billion ) company. The owner proudly shows his wealth. Private resort and casino.

 

Trucking is exempt from the FLSA law. That is the Federal law that mandates OT for MOST other jobs. Any trucking company can CHOOSE to pay OT to some or all of their drivers. They are NOT REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW to pay OT. I worked as an hourly driver for almost 20 years.

 

It's all relative to where the job is. A grand a week and home every night is not a bad gig in BFE Mississippi. In other words, while you hang up and laugh, Billy Joe is strapping in and getting ready to boil lobsters. Sal in Jersey not so much.

 

Must be jobs in North Korea, not in my country

 

That is pretty crummy, but not totally out of line, you are starting at the bottom. To put things in perspective, in the mid 80's, I applied for ( and got) a tanker job hauling hazmat, only they didn't call it hazmat then, suicide jockey, was more like it. The job was gasoline, propane and anhydrous ammonia( nasty stuff)Starting pay, $7.50/hr.( or about $17.00 today) I was young and stupid, and said, what the heck, they promised teens/hr. "in a few short years". Long story short, I worked there 2 days, as a ride along, and told them to cram it with walnuts.

 

Yes in your country.
Right here in good old USA.
And a lot of those same companies don't
Give a paid vacation either.
They don't have too.

 

Ummm no, that's below the bottom and under the table illegal alien wages