So why haven't more driver's pushed for detention pay?

you have to remember, your emergency does not constitute an emergency for someone else.


now too, you were a wrecker driver????

of course you got paid from the time you either left your home, or the shop for the emergency call.

in trucking, it is always a hot load or an emergency customer.

do you think you should get detention pay..??

YES, of course, once you do at the very least 2 hours of waiting upon arrival, at least nearly every company i ever worked for, went by the 2 hour rule.

some companies, as soon as you call and say you arrived, your pay clock starts.

you will always be "free labor, or your time doesn't matter to us time"

this is the way of trucking (like your trainer says), unless everyone got together and fight this, it'll never materialize.

 

Yep forget about what you did before.

It doesn't count.

Pay after 2hrs is the standard.

My previous company the clock started at the 2hr mark and you didn't actually get paid till the 3rd hour.

My current company they stay on the shippers/receivers to get the truck moving. I rarely ever wait more than an hour to get loaded/unloaded and out of the gate......the very rare malwart live to be the exception.

That's the difference between a good private fleet and just another #### bottom feeder.

 

Since this was an emergency load and the drivers did their very best to get to the cust ontime they should be compensated for something if not from the cust then their company.Then again it may not have been an emergency load after all,dispatch likes to put a scare into the drivers so they don't diddle dally around.I learned to have the( ill get there when I get there attitude).

 

oh...ok....an impending disaster emergency......

most emergencies in trucking are, they ran out of toilet paper in the CEO's office, and his secretary was sick (literally) and tired of using her tongue to clean his arse...

 

Very true lol I've been on those 'hot gotta get it there customer is waiting' loads before only to get there and find out the appt wasn't till the next day.

After 2 of those I didn't push any harder than normal to get it there.

 

Ive had more customers tell me I don't know why your dispatcher told you to hurry up and get here its going to be a couple hrs or longer before we ld/unload you.

 

Welcome to trucking...work for a company that pays detention. Guess that doesn't answer your question but I am sure by now you have noticed drivers can't come together on anything to affect change.