You missing the point. We don't know where we are going until we get back to the truck on Monday. I didn't even get the load until a few minutes before 0700
How would you handle no detention pay for something out of your control
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He didn't start early enough and it bit him. Hopefully he learns to start early enough, or get an hourly job so he stops giving away free time..FlaSwampRat Thanks this. -
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You only have x amount of hours on this planet. You are selling your time to a company, get paid for it.ExOTR, BigDog Trucker, okiedokie and 1 other person Thank this. -
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Wait in line at your company's terminal to leave. #megalife
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Wow... reading comprehension is bye bye on this thread....
If they won’t pay your detention, it’s your decision. Does it happen a lot? Do you like the job? Is it worth quitting over the $75? or whatever??
Sometimes #### happens and it screws you up. I worked for a guaranteed detention after 2 hrs company. A couple times #### happened and I didn’t qualify for the detention. I just made it up in other ways... like If I was finally done after 1 1-2 hrs detention, I dragged my feet till I had 2 hrs... lol Be creative!
I don’t get the ‘free time’ concept ‘by the hour’ guys push. CPM is the way some get paid. Doesn’t mean fueling is free time, my compensation is just figured out at a CPM rate. That’s just the way the pay is calculated. Yours is by the hour.
If I’m painting your house and I give you a price to paint it by the square foot, that doesn’t mean the time I ran to the paint store is uncompensated. It’s worked into the SQ FT price. If it starts raining 1/2 way through the job, I can’t charge more cause it’s taking longer. It is what it is.
Yes, sometimes thewait times to get loaded or unloaded suck, but it is what it is. Hopefully most of the time it is compensated. If not, look for a better company. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad and you can justify a certain amount of ########....
I haul Pharmaceuticals now. Hardly ever a wait to load or unload. Find your niche...
most weeks when I figure out my pay, I’d be shorting myself to get paid hourly. But each his own....Last edited: Dec 9, 2019
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The one thing I do guarantee everyone when they hire on is they will have it shoved up their ### on occasion through no fault of their own.
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Broker did that once for me on 2 hours detention. He Ended up regretting it after, I paid $20 to the warehouse worker to get me unloaded 7 hours after I arrived on the next load.
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