They need to mandate hourly w/ OT after 40

Objective of the game is for the company owners to get rich, not the drivers.

 

I dunno, there are times I wish I was paid hourly, and other times I'm glad I'm paid the way I am (percentage).

I think an employer should be able to pay however they choose, but not be legally mandated to choose one or the other.

I also think that the driver, having the freedom to choose where they work, can decide for themselves whether or not to work for any company, and shouldn't need the government regulations to help them to decide.

 

I don’t think it would actually make that much difference. Companies have a target annual amount they want to pay for a driver, and they’re just going to adjust whatever pay method is used to make sure drivers aren’t going over that target. There are high paying jobs in trucking that pay by mileage, and there are low paying jobs that pay hourly, and vice-versa. In other industries I’ve been in that were subject to overtime, the companies always tried their hardest to make sure nobody got it.

 

How do you want your 70k a year to be printed on your pay stub? You're still going to do 120,000 miles and the same job. Not to mention if paid per hour to get fuel how long you think the average wait will be to get thru a pfj now..

 

I've seen too many P&D dairy farmer truck drivers....sitting around milking the clock. If it was mandated that all drivers were paid that way, these companies would need to add 10-15% more trucks just to move the same amount of freight, just from the percentage of lazy ##### who ride the clock. Sorry, if you insist on paying me hourly, I will hand you the keys. On OTR, they would have to pay the drivers with experience $35-40/hr to make the kind of money we make on a CPM job.

 

I agree with others, there might be a short term dislocation but the pie isn't gonna get cut different for very long if that does happen.

Related question: do you self educate while driving to learn profitable skills and multi task?

 

The market and such should set wages..if driver is top of the line with their credentials and such and an employer deems that driver should be paid top wages, then so be it..if a company doesn’t want to pay good, then the good drivers will go elsewhere..

does folk’s think that lazy workers who only do the minimum and still have to be told how to do their job deserve top wages?..no…

 

actually here is what will happen.

More trucks and more drivers. Limiting them to 40 to 50 hours and that's it.

Carriers would not tell the warehouses or customers what they have to do, they will not. These customers will tell them they will figure out better ways to move their produces, which could include rail as it used to be.