Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

One thing that jumped out to me on that adp settlement is the missing breakdown on each pay category. I have 11 line items that add up to my year to date gross. Where are his? Maybe your ADP settlements are different?

 

Bobtail pays the same as linehaul, they just break it out so they can understand the true cost of loads and judge the planners.

Again, I know nothing about y'alls pay structure, but half the drivers I meet at my company don't understand our pay structure.

There are 3 mileage guys 'helping out' on the account I'm running right now. The other two 'opt' for the longer loads. One guy loves the Indy run. As my first run of the day I grab the load from the north side of Milwaukee and 'relay' it just south of Milwaukee, then scoot over to a customer, grab an mt (shuttle pay) and head back to the plant. Total pay $100 for less than 3 hours of total time. I can knock out at least two more loads, and if there's freight a third. Conservatively I'm looking at a $300, 11 hour day. Meanwhile, "Marc" hooks to that relay and boogies down to Indy, gets unload and back to our drop lot. He made $290 and ran a 13 hour day. "Marc" thinks he makes the same money that I do.

Zack runs 30 days at a time and then goes home for 6. Zack doesn't like to burn more than 9 hours off his 70 a day. Zack spends his weekends shuttling empty trailers back to the plant. Empty shuttles pay $10 less a 'load' than running freight for the same amount of time. Zack doesn't understand it would be more beneficial financially to run hard m-f, do a couple of loads/shuttles on Saturday then take a 34 on Sunday. Easily an extra $3,000 a year for the same total amount of work.

Neither of them seem to understand how our pay structure works. Heck, when I started on this account I had to have several conversations with dispatch about which loads paid better for me. He kept trying to give me miles when I kept trying to maximize loads.

The flip side is running OTR it's better to run the recap and keep moving. Most of our loads have open drop windows, so I've learned how to stagger my times to make sure I'm in a good position for the next load. Sometimes that means pushing and sometimes it means taking it easy. It depends on where in the country I am, where I'm heading to, and how much time is on my 70. It's art as much as it is science.

A couple of years ago I interviewed for an in house managerial position. When we got to the salary portion, I asked for 85% of what I was making as a driver. That was a deal breaker, and the hiring manager didn't think I was telling her the truth about what I made. About 3 years into driving I was in the office and having a conversation with the Ops manager about something pay related, I don't recall what. I do recall he pulled up and excel spreadsheet with all the drivers annual payouts and I was in the top 10. I hadn't yet topped out in the pay scale, but I was out earning drivers with more than 20 years experience.

I also recall that a few years ago I posted a W-2 and was 'called out' because my tax withholding was very small, percentage wise. That was back when drivers could claim per diem on their tax returns, so selecting greater than the standard deduction on the w-4 was a sound decision based just on my driving income. When you consider my larger tax picture, I had to make quarterly tax payments and my accountant advised me to take a smaller withholding so that at the end of the year I was paying in about $1,000-$3,000 rather than getting a massive return. Based on that one line item, many TTR members thought I was pulling a fast one. They thought I'd spent time falsifying a W-2 for 'internet cred' on a small trucking forum. Please. We should all be more open and honest about what we are being paid and what work is required to earn that pay.

 

Got into my loaner today. Went from a red to a blue truck. Here's to it running smoothly.

 

You missed my point as well. It's not about what you make. It's how you make you it

You missed my point as well. What you make is what you make. You are paid exactly what you are worth to the company. Same as me. I'm simply asking how much out of pocket does it cost you to work for company?

 

Heard you the first time.

It seems you pay union dues, what are they anymore? Used to be 2 hrs wage a month.Not sure what they are these days. Anyway, how can you talk about "free" healthcare, when it cost's you to join, and stay a member of the Teamsters? Or don't dues count?
My healthcare is $7.00 a week, and the company provides $10.00 a week, into a HSA. I'm happy with it.

I'm done with this babble, this is SSB's thread, and I'm not detouring it any more.

 

But what does insurance cost beyond the driver?

Is the company picking up the healthcare tab for all members of a a family or just the employee? And by healthcare, I mean medical, dental vision and prescription. So out of your pay for the year, you contributed $19,500.00 out of your pocket towards retirement and the company only gave you $4100.00? Is that a decent match? Forgive me because I don't know. No sick days? Not useful? I don't get it? If you are out on the road and get COVID, the Flu, a cold or are just too tired too tired to drive for whatever reason, you don't get paid? You are still in charge of their equipment. And are you telling that you don't get paid extra for working on a holiday? How fair is that? We get 10 recognized holidays as well as 2 floating holidays. And if we work on any of those, we are paid more for that time. Your vacation pay seems decent. As for food, I have no idea what it costs to eat out every day as opposed to eating at home?

 

You definitely put up with more horse$&@? from those idiots than most would!

 

Anyone got experience with the grand island JBS plant?