chain pay?

I'm using your comments as a jumping off point, not directed at you.

A lot of drivers don't make a lot of money I will give them that but those who do make good coin seem to also complain that the company is screwing them every chance they get.

No one forces anyone to work in this industry, no one is a slave but hell a lot of people act like they are.

 

You have no idea how many times i wish i could thank this response!

 

I have seen a pickup truck on Donner chaining Walmart company trucks (not the swift drivers that yank Walmart). They park and he goes truck to truck chaining. I've also seen some Walmart drivers doing their own.

 

Hourly and regional is different than OTR. OTR is not paid to drive, OTR is paid o deliver a load from point a to point b with product in same condition as when loaded, in as timely manner as possible and safely. That means all parts of the trip including planning, chaining when necessary, fueling and any other chore needed to get the job done.

Hourly are usually local and regional, and are normally doing other jobs OTR does not do along with their driving, and they usually don’t turn as many miles as OTR.

If you think OTR pay should be broke down, it can be, but at the end of the day the gross will remain the same.

I wonder if you folks that scream for more pay for this or that realize that you’re family is the ones that bear the extra cost every time rates go up. Business remain in business by passing costs along to their customers.

 

If people think chaining is included in OTR pay, how about we pay you to chain all day. We will pay you say $120 that about what someone would make driving 300 miles in snow all day, depending on their rate per mile.

I would not want to throw chains on side of the road in snow storm. Drivers get hit and killed. Plus you trash you clothes. Then you have worry about throwing chains off and running over the chain that fall off in the road. It a mess and I would not want do it again getting paid or not.

 

Actually they don't every time.


Way back in 92 my second otr company use to pay everything.
We got paid for fueling.
If we need to get a different style trlr we would get additional drop pay for going to a yard a switching on top of cpm
Heck we even got 10 bucks for bumping a dock on top of any unload pay and stop pay. Pull a Kmart with 3 stops or so it was good$$

Companies are just greedier than ever now days.

 

With the rising costs of health insurance and consumer goods. It's about to get a whole lot worse.

Analysts expect the economy to be crawling next year. Retailers are struggling and automakers are starting to announce plant closures. Even big names like GE are hurting.

 

I just heard this morning GM is shutting down its Oshawa plant at the end of 2019.

 

That was yesterday's news. This morning had more details with added closures.


Mozilla doesn't like to copy and paste. It's on cnbc.com.

 

instead of chaining, park it untill they open it up. get on laptop and spend your time on somthing that will make you money whether its longterm like investments or short term like ebay, then you can say you got paid for not chaining. drivers assume everyone is just sitting there wasting there time waiting for the road to open as if one cant be productive on their downtime.

and sure you make money to keep moving but when another driver loses it and takes your fender off youve gained nothing.

yes i will chain but i try to pick and choose my battles wisely, not just listen to some driver decide whether im as tough as him or not, its not a competition, havnt we seen the movie between the nerds and jocks and how it ends. the nerd owns the football team,the jocks work for him.