unpaid down time ??

This is all the more reason that you should expect to be paid for time sitting away from home due to a breakdown of the company's truck. You and your family are already making huge sacrifices with you being away from home for days or weeks at a time. If your truck breaks down and you are sitting, unpaid, for an extended time, then you will have to stay out, away from your loved ones, that much longer to make up for the lost pay.

To me, this is a no-brainer. It's the company's truck. They, not the employee, assume the risks of breakdowns, including lost revenue while broken down. The employee should not be harmed due to a failure of the company's equipment.

Most companies I know about claim to pay breakdown, detention, etc. They should honor those claims. Simple!

By the way, you live in a great area for trucking jobs. Lots of local opportunities, even for rookies, in which you can be home every day, paid hourly, and avoid these breakdown pay issues altogether.

 

Agreed. If a promise is made to the driver of breakdown pay, they should absolutely be compensated when a breakdown occurs.

The OP was complaining about breakdown pay not beginning until 1.5hrs of being out of service (which I'm sure was explained during orientation) ...yet for some reason ya have folks that are obviously aware of the policy, still sign on the dotted line & are all "woe is me" during their 90 minutes.

 

If down time happens on MY time it is work time.

Instead of spouting off like and expert with not a single mile under your belt, you need to learn and listen from experienced drivers.

 

Why don't ya quote me "spouting off like an expert" instead of me calling you out for opening your mouth & inserting your foot for not reading a thread title before jumping in.

My replies (that were not questions) were comparative to real life situations such as walking, factory work & raking a yard. Who do you work for exactly? You've had an account here for almost a year... yet no profile at all... barely a handful of posts, haven't began one single thread, obviously havent figured out in your 10 months here how to add picture and have added nothing constructive to the coversation Mr. "Expert".

 

Ive been driving a cmv for 22 years and currently drive for UPS.

My comment stands and if it confuses you as ot seems it has, it will make sense when you are actually on the road and experiencing it for yourself.

 

I can appreciate your take on the industry Rubberneck (and do!), but would (as a fledgling) appreciate them even more with a dash of substance juxtaposed to flat comments.

 

I work for a small building materials company that has only one truck. I am responsible for the truck when I am on duty, and that's why I expect to get paid. I parked the truck and go home at the end of the day and then I clock out. I clock in when I cross the gate in the morning, and clock out when I cross it after my run. Pretty simple really.

 

I'm a firm believer in fair and sensible compensation for a fair and sensible day's work. I'm fortunate enough to be paid for everything I do and I agreed to labor for my employer under those terms. Remember folks, ALWAYS research a perspective place of employment BEFORE jumping blindly in to the seat. ASK QUESTIONS, take notes. Tell them that you want it to be a beneficial relationship for BOTH parties involved. If you don't like what you hear, schedule another interview elsewhere.

 

So the lack of trucking School is preventing you from reading the links you quote? Read your own reference!

That is a driver safety inspection not a maintenance routine!

The DVIR was never intended to be "the only means the company has to be aware of issues in the fist place."

Only the crappiest of companies rely on the DVIR. Just wait to the DOT audits a company that claims it relies on the DVIR to make maintenance decisions.

Many if not most in this industry are paid by the hour. It is only the crap companies that don't want to to do the maintenance and then try to beat the driver out of pay for their effort in spite of the their own neglect.

 

You do realize the section quoted (396) is Inspection, Repair & Maintanence?