Longer Detention Times Increasing

Work for companies that pay detention pay.

 

People act like detention pay doesn’t exist.

 

The companies I worked for pulling reefers, paid stop pay which covered the first hour, then hourly pay after the first hour. Stop pay was always higher than the detention pay. One company paid $25 stop pay, then $12 hr. after the first hour.

 

It will never happen. Always going to have slow shippers and receivers and always going to have drivers willing to put up with it and wait.

 

They don't pay the warehouse people Jack and turnover is sky high , how fast would you move for a bunk paycheck you can't live on , its all a rush to the bottom.
Kimberly Clark here just fired over 75 of there fork lift driver's at the Cold Spring Plant that paid a living wage and replaced them with manpower temps , after threatening to shut the mill down ,Wisconsin taxpayers paid them 28 million to stay open , so they closed the Conway plant.
There are Demons running Corporate America.

 

That's what I love about ltl. Don't feel like getting this off the truck right now? No probs.... refused, call and reorder it when you are ready to receive it. We don't put up with that #### so I don't know why otr guy do? I have heard receivers ask if a truck had a sleeper before because the guy showed up near the end of the day a day early. He did so they waited until the am to unload him even tho they could have done it that night and gotten the guy on his way to his next load. Had he been in a day cab they would have unloaded it, y'all need to just stop waiting on these fools. If nobody does it they will have to fix the problem. I know that sounds way easier than it would actually be to implement but somethings gotta give.

 

You don't realize how excessive it really is till you do something like USPS loads, Street to Street, fully loaded 53' trailers 15 minutes or less. Really puts it into perspective. Lack of organization on the docks, they just dont know what there doing.

Even the shag loads I do for Pepsi, if I have to wait to be loaded I'm out of there in less than 30 minutes.

 

They prefer to wait for government intervention. It’s the easiest way of doing things.

 

detention

 

We work linehaul, but when it is slow will do local or regional for our company. My company then switches us to local pay which is by the hour and stop pay. Regional pay is miles, stop pay, and detention.

If I had to wait a long time and wasn't being paid I'd probably would have been escorted off of the property. My mouth is a mixed of Sailor and trucker when pissed off