Detention Pay?

Detention pay and layover pay are two different things.

At my company, if they do not load/unload you within 2 hours of your appointment time you are paid detention pay for each hour after that. Of course this relies on you arriving on time which generally means backed up to the dock door, not just at the guard shack or appointment window. You have to write the arrival and departure times on the BOL and try to have someone sign it. Some places (i.e. Wal-mart for appointment loads) will give you a nice printed sheet with the appointment time, arrival time, loading start/stop times, etc. Other places will refuse to sign any times so you just have to write it on there somewhere and hope they believe you.

Layover pay is when you sit after delivering a load. With my company you start getting paid if you are idle for more than 24 hours. I'm not sure if you have to be without a load for full 24-hour periods or if you can get half-days or something after that first 24 hours.

 

Layover pay is a joke.
After 24 hours?!?!?
What other job do you sit around for 24 hours for no pay in a company vehicle?

You should go on the clock the moment you send in your empty call.

 

What other job do you ______________ (insert any other injustice that truck drivers suffer from)? This is no huge surprise. You *should* get a lot of things but you can wish in one hand...

Allow Me: extremely good paraphrasing!

 

detention pay is nice, it teaches customers a lesson, and it's even nicer when you get a nice chunk of it. Especially when it's 5 hrs of det. # $75 an hr and you get 29% of that money in addition to your regular percentage pay for the run.

 

Detention pay or delay pay is good part of my money. For me, 1 hour onsite is included in my stop pay and time after that is paid as detention. Some stops will take up to 4-5 hours so I just collect the cash. Cha Ching.

 

I think drivers should be on the clock the moment they begin work and payed until relieved of the work duties,...

 

That would then make the companys either pay hr or salery and then there is no incentive to try to make deadlines since I'm getting paid regardless of what i'm doing, and would proabley encourage the 34hr reset when under a load "hey i'm getting paid to relax". In my mind that would be bad for the shipper/receiver, the trucking company, and ultimately the company driver.

Granted I think O/O's would do better in this enviorment since they get paid by load.

Plz note this is just my opinion and you know what they say about them.

 

That may be a good idea for all company drivers or mileage drivers but it wouldn't work for me. I'd end up getting a huge paycut I'm sure.