Working for free...where do you draw the line?

Whatever you’re doing, don’t do it “off duty”, if you’re a company driver. If you’re off duty and you injure yourself somehow, then you may not be covered by your state industrial insurance, and could even face disciplinary measures from your company. If you do anything while you’re off duty, your company can face scrutiny as well as yourself.

As far as to whether I get paid to fuel or not, or any other task, my company is pretty good about having a pay structure that assigns appropriate values to each type of task.

By definition, you’re “working” when you’re performing any of these tasks, you should be compensated for it.

 

Yeah, that's kind of a toughie. On one hand, you want to be a good employee, and take the crap, hoping it will come back to you down the line, and on the other, work( I figured from the time I got into the truck until I got out to go home) always should equal pay. In my career, I've done lots of things for free, some I got paid back in other ways, some not, but that's the job. It's not a punch clock deal where you get paid for every minute. I've had trucking jobs like that, punch in and get paid for every minute, but the boss kept close tabs on those minutes, and that sucks too. ( where were you here? and why did this stop take so long? crap) Look at the big picture. Take a rough estimate how long you were at work, ( in the truck ) into how much you made that week. If it's too low, then I'd move on. Remember, with all the jobs out there, they need you.

 

I'm a owner operator. Not a leased on guy either. Lately I have drawn the line on bullcrap of waiting around to get loaded or unloaded(flatbed).

If I show up at the shipper and it takes more that an hour for someone to start loading, then I leave.
If I'm at the receiver and it takes more than an hour to start unloading then I'm stuck but still will call the broker and tell them I'm leaving.

Screw this crap of "they get 2 hours free" to unload and load the truck. I'm leaving.

 

Unless youre an elephant dont work for peanuts.

 

I polish my wheels and trk late spring or early summer. Still looking for someone to pay me, dang it.

 

Bein a flatbed company driver we do lot of work with no pay ... I wish my only work i had to do other than drive was just a safety online class and a phone talk with safety ... But then again i see bein a truck driver everything u have to do with safety and fuekinf etc.. Anything tbat involves the truck or ur license is part of the job and ur company is already paying it... No different than mcdonals payin a guy to make burgers.. That would be like him askin if he gets paid extra for puttin lettuce and tomato on the burger , its part of the job

 

If you have to log it, you should be paid for it.

 

Never been to a safety meeting as they are held during bankers hours. I don't do anything without pay and the subject has come up a few times. My usual response is "you have hourly employees for that" End of discussion. Always a shortage of drivers but no shortage of dock employees leaning on brooms or hiding behind dumpster for a dube.

 

All required meetings and training should be on duty and compensated.

 

cents per mile is piecework, not timed

OTR cpm they pay you for all of the tasks involved in moving the load from point A to point B, and each mile driven (well, sorta) is a piecework unit

It is what it is...

as far as training, i agree on duty and paid separate from cpm is how it should be