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Originally Posted by csramsey640
no no they wont forced you to shut your truck off. This gentleman just "strongly" advised against idling since we have those "bunk warmers"
I understand thats a lot of wasted $$, however I felt they were trying to save money, rather than save $$ and keep a driver comfortable.
I told him the same as driver training. Any savings will not be funneled into my pocket, so your asking me to take steps that will hurt my productivity, but help yours, without seeing some of the benefit myself.
Like the idle guy, who told me how much $$ I was burning in idle fuel. I said if I fut idle time in 1/2, would I then be "rewarded" even 1/2 of the additional savings? TMC would still make out $$ ahead, he said no.
You hit the nail on the head here.
They are asking you to sacrifice your comfort without compensation. Screw them.
Now if they want to offer an attainable fuel bonus it would be another story. Say keep your mileage above "X" and you will get an extra 1% of the load or something similar. A good pay plan aligns the goals of the driver with the carrier. As an O/O Rank is happy to go slow boat style as its money in HIS pocket at the end of the day.
When I was paid by the mile as a line driver I would always push the equipment as fast as possible, forget mileage. Now when you are paying me by the hour you get to have it your way; I'll drive any speed you want me to as long as I feel it is safe.