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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;reddove, post: 4085711, member: 104527&quot;]06/20/14-Hourly pay<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_25510.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_25510:" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; This can be good or bad. In my opinion, they only people that should get hourly pay are the local drivers. Sometimes they have these contracts, mostly with the steel pipe companies out of Houston. They&#039;ll need 10 trucks and they don&#039;t have enough local drivers so they start pulling regional and OTR drivers to do these. You get pipe loaded from one location and drop it off in another. If it&#039;s in the local area, you&#039;ll get paid per hour ($16.00). If you go a little out of town usually around 60 miles you&#039;ll get paid per load. The per hour sucks because you&#039;ll be doing this for 1-3 days sometimes. If the customer closes early and you only worked 6 hours you are not making any money even if you do have to get there at 6am. I was home in san antonio. I thought they might of put me on that account like they did last week that was $250 per load. I got to go home every night. But noooo, I had to drive to houston to do this crappy hourly pipe load. I had a TWIC card and these pipes were picked up from a port. When I found out I was going to get paid hourly, I decided not to kill myself on this and with good reason. The dunnage was those LARGE 100 pound logs. I call them that because They were just logs with the edges made square. Half of the boards still had bark on them (These were the shipper&#039;s dunnage) I wore my weight lifter belt for this one to protect my back. Unlike the other pipe terminals I been to, the guys at this one were lazy as hell. This poor lady, about 100 pounds soaking wet was pushing the dunnage off the pipes. I ran over there to help her. The other terminal employees helped but you can tell they were slackers. I usually do 3 loads depending on certain factors but today I only did one load and the second I have in the yard along with the other pipe loads to be delivered monday. For some weird reason the loaders at the shipper took a two hour lunch break. The receiver close at 1500, so after they finally loaded our trailers it was straight to the yard to do it all again monday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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