My return to LTL... with SAIA

Quick question about hooking and dropping sets. How are they paid? Do you have to give the first and last?
Thanks!

 

They are usually automatic and should be on your trip card, you get 15 min of your hourly rate to hook a set of doubles and 15 min to break a set of doubles, as a example my hourly rate is $27.20 an hour so when I hook a set that is $6.80, and when I break a set it's another $6.80, triples trailers if the situation applies are paid at a 30 min of hourly rate to hook, and 30 min to break up.

 

Easy fix, just take the truck to the hotel like I used to.

 

In my experience when I was systems they usually had me set up in EIC before my 10 was even up, I think the longest layover I had was 14 hours, but that was a rare case, most were 10 hour layovers with some 11 to 12 here and there, as far as the hotels, usually you will have good luck with them, make sure you have your driver trainer show you how to navigate the employee information center on your phone, there is a heading for terminal/meet information, in that you will find what hotels to stay at for that particular terminal, if the hotel is sold out, the best thing to do is to call the 1 800 number on the CLC card and a CLC rep will help you locate another hotel in the area that takes CLC even if it's not on Saias hotel list.

 

Thank you for your help. I'm sure the more terminals I go to the better. Training next week. Hopefully on my own the following week.

 

i think not calling off often carries a lot of weight within itself. i often wonder how some guys still have a job.

 

They are usually pretty flexible with systems drivers when it comes to that, the couple times I needed to call off they were cool about it, however when I got the bid run things changed, I was legitimately sick, and called off early in the day to give them plenty of time, they were cool about and they even put it down as properly reported, but still got charged a attendance point for it, that never happened when I was on systems.