What are (if any) average miles discrepancies on your pay stub?

I don't nitpick. If the amount of my paycheck meets or exceeds the amount of work that I've put in and the BS I've had to deal with for that week, then I don't worry about being shorted here or there. When that equation flips the other way, then I start looking at options. I haven't had to look at options for quite some time now.

 

Companies do not get paid for miles driven. They get a line haul rate plus Fuel Service Charge. Why you think you are getting paid for the miles you drive you are really getting paid a set rate from place to place. The pay per mile thing is just a way to justify your check. You have the right to ask what the run pays before you do it. But it would take a class action suit to bring companies into line paying you by the exact miles. And that won't happen because of things like out of route miles and the like.

 

There must be some legal complaints about this going on also. I've noticed there is a lawyer billboard in Texas saying "not getting paid for all the miles you drive?" It then goes on to show the pic of the lawyer and invites you to contact him....it's a known fact for several years now that this is true amongst us drivers. I met a Walmart driver the other day while my truck was at the dealer shop for 1 day, we got talking, he said it's like 5 to 10% at times, he said he drove the route given on a load, and stopped like 10 miles from his delivery and got up with dispatch and said, okay I drove the exact route and I see the customer isn't here, but that's what you gave me miles wise for dispatch, of course he was being smart azzz and trying to prove his point to them...lol...but it should be hub miles not practical miles. Agree Walmart pays descent, but you get the message

 

and i wonder how many cases that lawyer won, did he mention that in his ad?

all any company has to do, at trial, is present to the court, thier pay scale. once it is seen what percentage is simply not paid, and for whatever reasoning, and many times by the way, we as drivers DO SIGN a plethora of paperwork when hired on right(??) i think case closed. once a signature is affixed to all the paperwork, we are pretty much bound that we agreed to the terms of employment.

bring on all the insipid lawsuits you can, you got to have proof you were wronged.

the only time (from my understanding) any state labor board or department can get involved, is when a business goes under, or hourly wages are not properly paid. i have yet to see any labor dept go after trucking companies, for mileage pay.

why so many dummies say, "call the labor board" think they are going to do a flip for us.

better they should have said, "call the Marshal's".!!

 

My first OTR job, 35 yrs ago, was for a small moving company
I was his only tractor/trailer driver.
He paid me .25 all miles, paid all meals, 12 an hour for labor, and all the motels I wanted, though it was a sleeper cab.
I kept everything in a notebook, and when I came in I would hand him the notes which he never glanced at, just shoved in a file.
He never cheated me, I never cheated him.
We both made good money
He even flew me home a couple times.
Sure miss those long gone days.

 

I have bought several cars that had more in change laying around in the car then I paid for the car it's self.

First, how companies get paid is should not be a driver's business unless you get paid percentage. A driver's contract is with the trucking company not the customer. The trucking company should live up to their end of the bargain.

That end is negotiating the rate the company gets for the service. Way to many desk jockeys are derelicts on that end of the business and find the only way they can make the company money is to cheat the driver.

Which is exactly why so many companies pay piece work. Oh so innocently "forgetting" to pay a portion of the promised pay nets these companies big bucks. When the employee is screwed, taking the shortage of pay to the state labor board is almost impossible because the piece work pay structure is to complicated for the pencil pushers their to understand. And, the rules on the books are not congruent with the piece work system anyway.

$15 day x 300 days on the road is $4,500 a year. That means something to me.

Multiply that by Swift's 23,000 drivers and $103,500,000 is even good money for Jerry each and every year.

 

Every load I get has the paid miles for it listed on the load assigned.. I do the math by my CPM and know instantly what the load pays.

This is pretty much the same as percentage but the variable changes.

With a percentage load, your percentage is constant but the cpm you earn varies, with Milage based pay the CPM is constant but the percentage varies.

Which ever way you agree too, you should know what you are being paid before you start the load.

Does your company not give you the milage before you do the load?

 

I won't work if it doesn't pay by the hour and never under $25.
Its that simple.

When I was otr with Conway I got screwed many many times spending 3 free hours in a dock only to have to go spend another free three hours in another dock. Paid zero $'s to drive across the same city.

Nope...never again. I pity the otr company driver really.

Why I don't tip waitors but tip the delivery guy like ten bucks. Lol.

 

Grow up? Getting screwed is getting screwed. The dollar amount makes no difference. You should be paid what your owed. Screw you company out of $30 and let them find out, you think their going to ignore it the way you do?

 

well I'm lucky to work for a guy who pays all miles and many extras, but I've also had the displeasure of working for outfits that paid PC Miler (gypsy) miles where they're basically not paying you for 5-10% of actual real work you did for them. I know why they do it: mostly greed but also due to the boilerplate formula that makes the accounting and payroll easier. Is also because they don't trust the drivers and would rather screw them out of 5%+ than pay 1-2% extra out of route/truck route miles it took to actually do the job.