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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Buzzdog, post: 152233, member: 6652&quot;]Brickman,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I completly aggree with you that the driver should not be paid the entire ammount for the tarp job.&nbsp; But being paid the the drivers % of the tarp fee would be more then fair.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a considerable cost in purchasing and maintaining tarps and bungees.&nbsp; There is also a good ammount of time that is invloved in tarping the loads.&nbsp;&nbsp; On average it takes me anywhere from 45 minutes up to 2 or more hours depending on what the load is.&nbsp;&nbsp; The $10 that TMC pays is for tarping and untarping.&nbsp; So the 30 minutes or more it takes to untarp and roll them back up is covered in this $10 also.&nbsp; So when you take the total time that you have wrapped up (no pun intended) you are looking at sub minimum wage for the compensation.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would quickly overlook this if I was making up the difference in the line haul fee, but has I have already stated, I have only pulled cheap freight.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Another point to ponder with this company.&nbsp; I really wish I had a recorder going when we had our &quot;log&quot; class in Des Moines.&nbsp; The &quot;log&quot; girl told us that we had to log all of line 3 activites as they happen because the trucks are tracked.&nbsp; That we have to maintain legal logs.&nbsp; Then she tells us how to log time spent at customers.&nbsp; She said to immediately go to line 2 when we arrive and do nothing more in the book.&nbsp; Once we were either completely loaded/secured/tarped/ready to roll or unloaded and sent our next dispatch ready to roll, we would then drop down to line 4 for 30 minutes only and show the rest of the time at the customer at line 2.&nbsp; This policy is confirmed by prior posts by TMC employees stating that the &quot;Iowa DOT&quot; informed them that only 30 minutes be shown on line 4 at customers.&nbsp; So it is a little hypocritical that it is sanctioned by the company to falsify your logs when it concerns time at the customer and line 4, but you better not fudge a single bit when it comes to line 3.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As a driver I have always viewed any time that was logged on line 4 as &quot;free&quot; time because it usually involved job activities that I was not being compensated for directly ( PTI, Fuel, DOT inspections, Random Drug Test, Unloading, Loading, etc ).&nbsp; Line 3 is the revenue line for drivers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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