How does hourly pay work?

Your paid hourly, that’s all. Start your day at terminal, 12 hours later end your day at terminal. What happens between these times is your paid time. So pre/post trips, fueling are on the clock. The “ lunch break” or 30 minutes of time is off the clock.

 

Punch in clock, do work; punch out clock, go home .

 

If its a typical trucking company, they will find a way to screw you at least a little.

 

Lol aint that the truth

 

It can be.

It can also screw you.

I'm working "dedicated" for a customer right now. I am a "system driver" on a mileage scale while the guys assigned to the account are on a daily rate of $210, usually for a 10 hour or less day, so for the sake of argument let's say $21 an hour.

The customer only had 18 loads today. We were all done in under 8 hours. A daily rate driver would have made $210, and an hourly driver $168. I made $225.

Tomorrow I'm filling in for a local guy who makes $22.50 an hour. I start at 0700 and will be back at the yard by 1700 and I will make $350.

It doesn't really matter the method of pay - hourly, daily, salary, piece rate. What matters is what the gross pay amount is and how it relates to the effort/skill needed to complete the work.

 

Only took a few times sitting in traffic to convince me to go hourly.
If you have a good route setup, hats off and safe travels.
But for the routes I usually end up running, I'll take hourly.

 

It all depends. I should have mentioned last Wednesday when I only made $195 because dispatch gave me a "long load so I could make some money" - Milwaukee to Joliet and back. Mileage pay on that load? Forget that. But running local in GB at $50 a load, 7 loads a day, done in 10 hours? Sign me up. The devil is in the details.