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I usually accept these loads, but I deliver when I feel like getting there.[/quote]

You aren't going to last long in this industry with that attitude.[/quote]

At 7 bucs hr that otr pay's. I hoping you right.

 

Most companies cannot afford to let a driver sit for "3 or 4" days just because they refused a load especially if there is other freight available that the driver can deliver legally. At Crete I probably get 1-2 load offers a month that I can't deliver legally. All I do is tell them and if there is a load I can do legally they offer it to me. If not, then I sit till there is. Its part of being a truck driver. Companies that punish drivers for refusing freight based on legal reasons are not going to be around for long.

 

this is my opinion. drivers will drive illegal when they want too, we all have done it. ten one day dispatch sends a load that you don't want, all of a sudden we are quoting rules and regs crying that we cannot run illegal even though it has been done in the past. dispatch sends those loads to people that have quietly done things in the past. just don't atart doing it and there will be no problems. i also want to see the math that otr pays 7 dollars an hour, your crazy.

 

Also some guys want to say a load is illegal just because it would mean taking a ten hour break and nothing more than a ten hour break and they might not be able to spend all night jacking around in the truckstop. By the way I am on hometime for now.

 

otr pays 7 dollars an hour, your crazy.



Its easy take you pay for the wk divide by the hrs away from home=less then 7 a hr.


thats for every hr not just the ones working/driving. some ppl value all their time not just what the log book says we were working.

 

And I suppose Mickey D's values (and pays you for) your hometime??

 

why when y'all figure pay do you include your time asleep in the bunk. nobody gets paid to sleep. and if yu were even half as smart as you think you are then you would be taking the per diem, whch increades in amount in major areas. sure not income now, but less paid in taxes or a bigger refund. so now you do the math, and only use the time that you actuall work...not sleep.

 

The problem with the per diem is that it lowers your taxable income. What does this affect? Well, it lowers your social security based income, it lowers your workers comp insurance in the event of an accident at work, etc.

I'd rather pay more in taxes now and know that when I need the income that it will be higher.

 

I figure most include bunk time b/c it's spent in the bunk of a company truck :wink: And I think if a dispatcher was told that at the end of his 8-10 hr day he was to pull out a sleeping bag and sleep at his cubicle with no acess to running water or a toilet he might just count this "personal" time as company time ,and figure it into his weekly hourly pay . :wink:

 

Wow.... I didn't realize dispatcher cubicles were located in foxholes! I really thought they were in buildings with RESTROOMS!! :roll:

We don't even pay our soldiers in Iraq based on a 24 hour clock!! What makes SOME truckers think they should get PAID for every minute they are ALIVE??? :shock: :?:

If you want to get paid for sleeping, eating, playing video games, etc.... GO ON WELFARE!! :wink: