First day on my own and I cross dropped.

Was paid by the hour with O.T. when I hauled fuel. The only way to make money in the big city(Los Angeles/orange county). We were top pay and cherry picked drivers. Did we still have incidents? Yes but they were few and far between. Then our terminal manager retired and Corp decided to open the flood gates to anyone, this is when the incidents went threw the roof and drivers left by the droves. It's was great while it lasted but it's not the private fleet it once was.

 

Yeah when I hauled fuel I was paid by the load.

There were a couple companies that paid hourly. Nothing worse than getting behind hourly drivers at the lact. They took their sweet time.

 

That's a self inflicted wound. Nobody forced anyone to work for load pay. The two load pay companies in my area can't keep drivers for anything.

 

I don’t haul fuel anymore. Still know people that do though, and most companies in Houston are load pay. Suncoast is hourly but they have driver facing cams. Dupre used to be hourly but they took it away and they had all their drivers eventually quit, it’s a revolving door of drivers there now.

If on load pay you really need to be on night shift to make money in Houston as rack wait times are way worse during the day.

And of course waiting pay is after the first hour or longer depending on the company.

 

I’m load and mileage pay and wouldn’t have it any other way. I make way more than drivers at hourly companies in my area. Just gotta be fast.

 

We pay our tanker drivers by the hour. We don't want them dragging their feet but "fast" and tankers isn't usually a good combination.
There's nothing on the trucks, the trailers, or the product that we can fix as cheaply as paying the driver a little extra time to make sure things get done right.
They don't screw around under the racks but they don't get in a mad rush just because somebody unfortunate enough to work by the load is waiting either.

 

Most pay by the load in Oklahoma. Unfortunately it's similar to other driving jobs, local and otr, in that you are effectively punished for going to the bathroom or stopping to eat.

At the racks drivers make a dash to the bathroom, after loading as their bills are printing, trying not to lose any time. You eat either while driving or while unloading/loading product.

Of course there's no rule you have to live like this. But I call it punishment because not doing this results in either less pay, or less time at home. Take your pick. --And I'm talking down to the quarter/half-hour per day. But when you're out 12-14 hours a day, an extra half hour at home is a pretty big deal, to me anyway.

But I enjoy working in the city so it's good. I go home everyday so it's good.

 

yep am currently being taught how to avoid doing that, isn't each fill hose marked will the product? To avoid this I've been taught to draw a map of each compartment and to tick them off as you fill.

 

Our BOL's have a tank diagram that we mark prior to fill. As long as we follow that we are OK. It has a space for product and gallons, and if a split load, I put down the station number also.

 

This is really very simple. Pop the lid look in hole, read the tag, run a hose to the appropriate compartment and open the valve.