Overtime and pay for all trucking time!

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  1. Loudstacks

    Loudstacks Light Load Member

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    Repeal the Fair Labor Standards Act Overtime Exemption

    Worth getting this info out to all truckers so we can get paid for all our time, overtime pay! Port workers just received a 62% Pay increase, we're essential workers, inflation doesn't effect us? We deserve to be paid for ALL our time on the job including in the sleeper, all time at the docks, etc...
     
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  3. BoostedTeg

    BoostedTeg Road Train Member

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    If you go local you get paid for everything you do.
     
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  4. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    Not necessarily..
     
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    Ok I’m sure there are places that skip out. But all the local jobs in my are paid by the hour and OT after 40.
     
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  6. Thrasher28

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    Trucking companies aren't stacking money hand over fist, so we'd all get paid the same regardless of how it's figured. If they are, it's to set themselves up for bad markets like this.

    Gonna have to go higher up in the hierarchy to bring more money to companies and drivers across the board. Trucking companies are always last to get their piece of the pie.
     
  7. Thrasher28

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    One option is to crack down on fly by night carriers not paying drivers, running less than qualified drivers, running raggedy equipment to drive down rates, etc., but kind of hard to do when there's hundreds of thousands of trucking companies and anyone outside of the industry only cares if their product shows up on the shelf.

    Or could add back in tax deductions for W2 drivers like it used to be and help a little, but Uncle Sam only pretends he likes the working class
     
  8. Ridgeline

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    This has been discussed by fleet owners for the last few years and the drivers are not getting it, if something like this happens, the industry changes, the drivers will be force to deal with limited hours and limited net pay.

    An average driver is above what the market really should be paying for a driver, not saying many deserve more but with the driver resource pool having more stupid people driving and costing the industry more than just money, if you want to change this and make more, then the drivers need to fight against the steering wheel holders who cause the problems.

    From the link - a couple lies
    Drivers are constantly leaving the industry to pursue other opportunities and less experienced, and statistically less safe, drivers are needed to take their place.

    This is a lie; it has more to do with treating this as a job and not as a career, and there are a lot of dissatisfied drivers when they can't fit into the needs of the industry but rather expect the industry to conform to their needs.

    Our roads are more dangerous because truckers aren’t guaranteed overtime. The system allows shippers and receivers to excessively detain truckers at loading docks.

    This is another lie, overtime has nothing to do with what the real cause is - the Hours of Service FMCSA regulations. All overtime is going to do is to cause more problems for the carriers when they can not afford the driver's demands and they have to speed up that revolving door to fill the customer's needs.

    Yep, cut your own throat, the carriers will respond to limiting your hours.
    Yes, that's what we get with a union that openly says they will hold the country hostage until they get their demands met, automation is needed in the ports, the union needs to go away.
    Yep to a point.

    Nope, you don't. You will end up working an 8 hour day with relayed freight or putting it on rail, gone will be regional and OTR work.
    This is the real problem, the rates are held down by crap owners who are making that 20% margin while crapping on everyone - especially the driver.
    Yeah, they need to be returned and simplified.
     
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    :laughing-guffaw:,good heavens, I wish I had a nickel for everytime this topic came up, wait, maybe I do. Truck drivers never got overtime because it was never considered a "real" job. You just sit there, the truck does all the work,,,or so they thought. I never could figure out why that was so. I mean, I figured, I should get paid from the time I leave my 4 wheeler, until I return. If over 8 hours, I should get overtime, every other industry does. It's something I just learned to accept, and yes, driving a truck was a lot easier than grinding some metal cabinet, or whatever. You can't expect someone that isn't in trucking to know that, just "driving around" as far as they know. If it's any consolation, it will never happen, and best to move on from the industry if you can't make it on straight pay. I've had even local and regional hourly paid jobs that didn't have O/T. Just the way it is. Don't be swayed by the dockworkers strike. I read, starting pay for a dock workers is right around $20/hr., and after 3 years, is $39 or about $81K/year. They want to start at $44, and $75 in 3 years over the next 7 years. Not exactly sure what a dockworker actually does, sit in a machine and hoist containers? :dontknow:
     
  10. Cattleman84

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    They want $75 an hour after 3 years???!!! I know experienced pipeline welders that dont make the kind of money, and IMHO they are some of the ones who SHOULD be paid that kind of money.
     
  11. OldeSkool

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    I work local and get paid from the time I arrive at the terminal until I clock out. Anything over 40 is paid overtime. I average 50-55 hrs weekly. I love it.
     
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