Hourly pay

I've been paid by the mile and by the hour. You trade one set of problems for a different set of problems. Neither way is problem free or better in most ways compared to the other.

 

So many more factors than just that.

 

So many more factors than that.

 

Started out working per mile and stop pay. Now I’ve been with a company that pays hourly. The biggest benefit is the OT pay. Never understood why we are taken advantage of so much. If you work more than 40 hours a week companies should be forced to pay employees OT pay. We’re literally out here working 65 a week without getting extra pay. Why don’t the OT regulations apply to truck drivers??

 

I am staunchly pro-hourly-pay. So much of the desperate NONSENSE I see on the road would stop if people knew they were getting paid regardless of speed.

I'm downright courteous, even in traffic jams. There's no intense frustration at not rolling anymore. Don't care. I'm here as long as I'm here, and it's fine.

 

Why overtime after 40 hours? What makes 40 so special?

 

Because unions deemed that an acceptable amount of hours for a full workweek.

 

Be careful with the whole OT thing. Don't forget there was a law put in place 3 presidents ago to jack up tax on overtime pay after 50 hours in effort to get family providers home more. So there is diminishing returns there.

 

unions had little to do with it, this crap about the unions changing the work environment is created just like the unions created the Middle Class.

It was the industrialists who found out that it was better to allow the worker to have more time which forced them to buy more crap and the industrialists made money by making more crap for the workers to buy. Ford proved that when he went to a 40 hour work week in 1926.

 

Being paid hourly and receiving a percentage of the load worked for me with neither binary set of problems.