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Originally Posted by GMAN
I assume that you are referring to detention pay. Carriers don't usually get paid for sitting unless it is called for in the contract they have with the shipper or consignee. They are usually paid by the mile or load. Most will pay drivers detention after a certain amount of time has elapsed, providing they collect detention from the shipper or consignee. They usually don't pay for at least the first two hours.
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Now see....IF detention started on arrival....or at least at the scheduled appointment time......there would not be "Unpaid" driver time. Instead of telling a company that they can hold a driver for 2 or 3 hours unpaid.....the industry standard should be....the truck arrives ontime at it's scheduled appointment....truck and driver get paid.
When a driver is forced to sit at a shipper's location or a consignee's location, for hours on end, with out remoneration (for those whom don't understand....that means PAID), THAT is unpaid wages. If the driver is unable to go and do as driver sees fit, as is always the case at either facility.....the driver should be collecting a wage. That does not happen....and it does not happen because of the way that FLSA was worded in 1932.
If the driver logs all of his or her time at a shipper's or consignee's location "Off-duty".....then the carrier is not obligated to pay the driver one red dime (nudgenudgewinkwink), yet...if the driver does log all that butt time as "On-duty".....then that driver is labeled "Un-cooperative" and is starved out, because that driver's HOS make him or her unavailable for that next load....cheap as it may be.
The FLSA is what makes corporations fairly compensate it's workers (yes..union bargaining does to an extent as well).....yet allows corporations to short pay "Truck Drivers". The FLSA statute that covers "Truck Drivers" was worded with all that high dollar "mileage pay" in mind......again...........
IN 1932!!
FLSA needs to be changed just as much as DOT HOS doesn't.
end of rant