They need to mandate hourly w/ OT after 40

Rising tides can sink a boat as well.. As I've said before, I don't really care about what others do, but last thing I want is more government intervention into anything. I don't advocate for anyone struggling to make a living, but I DO think a little struggle is not all bad. Makes you appreciate it more once you make it .

I wouldn't be opposed to them removing whatever exemption the trucking industry currently has, but I can almost promise there will be some stupid regulations attached. And that's what I DON'T want

 

If the government were to establish a minimum hourly rate then yes I would agree that however you’re paid should be able to be broken down to be at minimum wage or higher.

I simply feel that companies should be able to pay how they want. Be it hourly, mileage, or percentage. There are a lot of companies paying a lot of employees in other industries in ways other than hourly, trucking should be able to operate the same way.

 

Or drivers that think hourly pay and OT are very important could work for companies that pay hourly/OT. I've worked hourly as a driver. It is NOT the paradise most CPM drivers imagine. Your boss often decides to monitor your activity more closely to discover who is milking the clock and who is not. Life is full of decisions and consequences. Make them like the outcome is important. Govt is incapable of fixing problems, just changing one set of problems for a different set of problems, which will cause different demands for govt action, wash, rinse, repeat. We now have millions more laws than decades ago and hardly anyone is walking around singing about how few problems they have. EVEN UNION DRIVERS HAVE COMPLAINTS. They have hourly pay, OT, and written work rules. Why should everyone work under the type of pay you like instead of the type of pay trucking companies and drivers decide will work for them?

 

OK Norma Rae, when is the strike?

 

Life would be much easier for everyone if they let you make all of the decisions. What part of New York are you from?

 

Wouldn't the most unionized areas of the country be the most humane and pleasant places for workers to live? Maybe NY can build a wall to keep NYers from fleeing to better states with more opportunity and higher quality of life. It worked for the East Germans, for a while.

 

Drivers are just part of the system.

I remember the 'structure' at a union shop.

Despite years of contractual wrangling, somehow, the numbers still ended up in the companies favor.

Guys running mileage were 'time in' by Thursday morning meaning they had reached the point of making as much as the hourly guys hitting 40. They were not dispatched again that week UNLESS there was overtime AND we could get hem to answer their phone which NEVER happened .

Hourly guys were guaranteed 40 if they started on Monday, less on Tuesday, and so on with 'junior' men starting their week on Wednesday or Thursday and worked the weekends.

The company had all of their wage costs 'contained' and every day was a 'dance' of union vrs company as each interaction was 100% scripted by the union contract.

The company still had the winning hand. Anytime the bottom men refused a call out [weren't dispatched the night before] you called the next junior man until you reached the last man who you could 'force' out or they were terminated.

Somehow the junior man always took the force so the company won in the end.

With a moderate amount of OT and none of the un-needed BullStuff the same amount of business could have been done by 2/3 rds of the drivers but that local would only have collected 2/3 rds the dues and penson fund monies

 

Shouldn't the decision about the acceptable pay for a particular job be made by the applicant that wants the job and not some guy on the internet? If the job pays what he thinks is good pay, he takes it. If it is too low, he applies elsewhere. That system works better than more corrupt govt involvement.