Is my company putting the wood to me?

So i'm new. I have been with this company for a little over 4 months.

I work in flatbed and run on a dedicated account for a major home improvement company.

I was offered the job straight out of training.

The company gave me a general idea of what i could expect to make based on "The averages
of the other drivers on the account. More on this later...


So here's the setup up that I found out after the fact.

There is a 50 mile radius that one must live within to qualify to work out of this distribution center. They hired me knowing I lived 135 mile away. They have me bring the truck home every night and I pay for the parking spot out of my own pocket.

Well, as it turns out, this company pays from the distribution center to where the delivery is made and the milage to the next pickup, whether that be back to the DC or to a lumber plant we frequent for back loads to the DC,

So this is how my day goes. I drive 135 miles to the DC, pick up my load, deliver it to the store in question and then drive from that store home.

This is where the problem comes in. The miles I drive from my parking spot to the DC and the miles I drive home from my last delivery thy refuse to pay me mileage.

This mileage equates to better than 2500 miles per month that I am driving their equipment, on the clock, and responsible for their equipment.

What that means is that roughly 4 hours of every day is unpaid driving that eats my clock and minimizes my ability to maximize my income. As a result of this I'm making less money than I did as a b-class straight truck driver-It's pathetic.

My question is this, This company offered me a job knowing I lived far outside its normal hiring radius and then refuses to pay me for the miles I incur as a result of the decision they made. Obviously they never told me I would have to spend four hours a day driving(unpaid) in order to be paid for the other hours I drive that they deem worthy of payment. As a newb I had no idea this was even possible as the company flatly states "We pay all miles-loaded and empty."

I have the feeling that I have become a cautionary tale of how Newbs get raped, but I feel like this kind of situation is utter bull and I feel like this can't be legal.

I'm probably wrong and that's why I am asking here. maybe trucking is full of this crap, but we're not talking some "Flybynight" company. They have 1600 trucks and are making money hand over fist. I just can't understand why they would do some crap like this-It's just petty!

 

They do. I wondered the same, but they seem happy to do it.

 

I'm in a day cab, Naps suck in those! LOL

 

I think even they knew a newb wouldn't fall for that blatant of a screwing!ROFL