At a mega, who typically makes more money, a trucker or a fleet manager?

Individually, no. Collectively, yes.

 

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Generally, jobs that require more education to get the job typically pay more than the jobs that don't require an education to get the job.

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This is very often not true , plumbers make way more than social workers
Also I dont believe that many megas require a degree to be a driver manager,
I have always been told they dont make much money

 

What is an ultra credit?

 

Some ta petro thing. Fill up you get a shower or meal

 

It's well known and documented fleet managers ( dispatch ) make all the long money. Go home at the end of the day to the smokin hot wife in their new Lexus whilst you're sitting at a Road Ranger for 3 days waiting on a load.

 

In addition to that is how much accessory pay you can cheat your drivers out of while making them think they have it so good.“. There’s a real art to this and it’s something most, “good“ dispatchers know how to do.

 

Oh for ####in sure.

I remember ten years ago when I started, I would put my detention requests in, and they’d never get paid. And I don’t know if this still happens, because I haven’t worked reefer since- but the shippers/receivers and lumpers would just cut ya a paper check.

After how many loads I didn’t get paid detention on, not even a share, I just started throwing the things out. Pissed billing off like you would not believe.

And this was with FFE before they were bought by kllm, while I was still under work for hire contract, making jack #### to begin with while running my balls off.

And it’s this exact moment I’m feeling a little…crusty…

 

Yeah it still goes on today but it’s a little different and it varies from company to company. The really good companies, everything is automatic. You don’t even have to request it, but those are far and few between. New drivers are always taken advantage of. They don’t get paid for breakdown pay, layover pay, none of it. And they just act dumb. The issue is surrounding the way the pay structure regarding accessory pay is set up at most trucking companies. Your dispatcher, or your fleet manager, gets a big fat bonus usually every quarter based on how much of that money he is able save. Companies know they have to offer this to attract good drivers. Paying it out is a whole Nother ball game. On average I have to ask 3 to 4 times and even threaten to quit before they’ll pay it. And this creates resentment. I get dirty looks when I go into dispatch and stuff. But I don’t care anymore. And a lot of the times I end up sitting and wasting time and wasting days is because of something they screwed up. And then they’re gonna get their bonus and I’m not on top of it? I don’t think so. Lol

It irks me that trucking companies have set up this conflict of interest where dispatchers are in charge of your accessory pay and they get a bonus based on how much they save. If that’s not a conflict of interest, I don’t know what it is. But they do it that way on purpose.

 

I got my CDL at a mega. I stayed there for 2 years. Started out at $0.38 in Dry Van and finished making $0.52 a mile in flatbed. Only ever saw one week over 3,000 miles and I barely made over $50K my second year. I've seen job postings for our Fleet Managers and a couple spilled the beans to me when they were quitting. They make $18 a hour and work 12 hour shifts 7 on 7 off (we are assigned 2). The night dispatchers are basically in training and start at $15 a hour. They mostly get paid to watch training videos and tell you to ask your dispatcher when they come in the morning. They also get bonuses for their driver's performance. The mega I worked at had an expectation that a truck should run at least 120,000 miles a year. So of course most of the dispatchers was in favor of making that bonus and that's why once you hit your ~2,400 miles for the week you seem to be handed bread crumbs sitting 6 hours for an appointment time 30 miles away from your last drop just to go 300 miles down the road while the driver leaving the house that day got the long run out of the place you just delivered to. It's always why they ask you about every week if you want to train once your 90 days solo is up. I can't speak for how much the bonus is though. But at least at that mega, the dispatchers made less or about the same as a rookie driver that doesn't know how to run and play the system. They also have a high turnover rate just like drivers. I had 6 different dispatchers come and go in my 2 years.