hair follicle companies pay more?

My take: I think it's an actuary thing. Actuaries (the number crunchers whose work is used for setting insurance prices among other thibgs) seem to have found a correlation between those passing hair tests and lower incidence of costly collisions or other mishaps. I don't have the hard data to back this claim, it is speculation on my part. But many have said that the insurance companies offer lower insurance rates if drivers are hair follicle drug tested, and that makes sense. Many of the biggest companies are likely self insured, but if there were no discernable difference in outcomes, why would they cost their business 10% of potential employees during a period of acute driver shortages? And following that, if a company spends less on liability, it stands to reason some of that savings would make it's way into the drivers paychecks.

Just a theory.

 

If cost savings were really passed on to the drivers, then my suggestion to my terminal manager years ago was valid; get me an old CF cab over, pay me 10 cents a mile more than the other shmucks in this yard, then I’ll stop complaining about these new crap boxes we drive!

 

Schneider does hair follicle testing and they don't pay that much. It's somewhat demeaning.

 

Knight, dry or reefer does a hair test. Here are my checks from last year, I drove for them briefly.
knight edited checks.pdf

 

I don’t care what they pay, I’m not dealing with bean counter BS

 

I personally don't see how drug testing impacts a driver's pay. The only thing that truly impacts a drivers pay, is the driver him/herself. Companies are going to pay whatever they pay, and for experienced drivers, it will be competitive. 45 - 55 cpm, that range is somewhere around what your average experienced driver will make. However many miles that driver runs will tell the story. That number range i put up is not including incentives. Straight up pay and miles. Companies pay what they can afford based on their freight and business model.

 

No, they should not pay more simply because a driver is legally qualified to operate a CMV.

Remaining drug free is a requirement to operate a CMV. You don't get paid extra for following the rules.

 

I guess I still do not get it. Being drug free is a requirement to get and to keep a CMV. Seeing people wrapped up in what sort of drug testing xyz company is going to do is just ridiculous to me. Dont do them.....pretty simple really

 

Just think if they gave drivers a second hair test after 3 months or so................ There would be alot of drivers cleaning out their Trucks.