Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I think it's a rule of p&d driving, the shorter the trailer the more pick ups you get! Except one route I ran with a 48 I would always come back full no matter what. I'm prob getting bumped back to that route soon too.

 

I've seen other posts you said you run the eastern shore I've prob bumped into you?

 

@MACK E-6 I didn't know R&L have their own tow trucks.

 

Just spoke with an AAA Cooper driver today. No overtime at all, straight pay all the way up to the full 70 hours.

Southeastern has started paying OT after 45. Estes is OT after 52. OD is OT after 60. Everyone is hiring in my city right now, these LTL companies are going to have to start lowering the OT limit close to or at 40 to stay competitive. As they should. I even learned recently that the dockworkers and yard jockey's at Estes get OT after 52 hours too, just like the CDL drivers. How the hell the trucking industry gets away with not having to pay regular/non-CDL, hourly employees OT after 40 is beyond me.

 

Yeah, that’s a bunch of equine excrement.

 

There's a rumor among drivers that OD will start paying ot after 50 hrs.

 

pitt ohio does, as well. they refurbed at least 1 old truck i know of. we don't see it too often since we're out on the end of the line.

pitt also pays ot after 40.

 

That looks like something FedEx should have.

 

They'd need more than one.