Layover pay

YES..................................

 

I have fond memories of driving for Tri-State Motor Transit in 1968-69. We were paid the first eight hours and the motel bill when chains were required. When the delay pay stopped, we chained up and went on.

 

The company has no control of acts of nature. Layover is meant to compensate you lack of freight, or to much time under loads (typically the weekends), things the company may have more control over. I would guess that there may be a company or 2 that pays if you get shut down. But if they all did, they would go broke, everytime a snowflake fell, drivers would be shutting down, then expect to get paid.
Now thinking safety, would this help from drivers pushing it when weather is bas, maybe. Heck I went 10 years before I found out we were allowed to shut down for weather. If the states didn't close the roads, we ran em. Might be rolling at 15mph, but we were rolling, chains and all.

 

Just going to throw my 2 cents in here. HAHAHAHAHAHA Get paid for bad weather. LMFAO Thats Funny.

 

And here is where a union would come in. Yes, union companies pay their drivers for delay time, for any reason. I don't know too many non-union outfits that even appreciate their drivers that much.

 

I think a lot more union drivers have lost money walking picket lines than nonunion drivers have lost sitting out storms .

 

Big 10-4 on that Rick. They lose more money on union dues the we do on lose time do to weather.