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Business

The double-edged sword of appointment times

Appointment systems are great if you’re right on time and the facility keeps its appointment ducks in a row — not so if you get held up en route or, God forbid, you’re early. In such cases, professionalism greases the skids…

September 22, 2015

Business

Why you deserve $64/hour for (every hour of) detention

Calculating a fair detention rate: A majority of operators indicate either total revenue per mile (38 percent) or profit/net income per mile + fixed cost per mile (45 percent) as appropriate benchmarks for detention rates.

September 17, 2015

Voices

POLL: Best way to tackle detention?

Should government mandate, as the Obama administration’s DOT has attempted, that carriers pay detention to drivers, or is continued industry standardization of detention pay the best tack? Something else?

August 14, 2015

Business

How much is your time worth?

“I can’t rightfully condone Burger King bag enemas, but I can tell you to ask for detention pay…. Your time is valuable, too.”

March 4, 2015

Channel 19

Road not taken: Let’s go truck… I mean, er, lumping!

Another “road not taken” here, and it’s an unlikely one, at best. While many operators “lump” something every day, full-time work doing so I imagine is no doubt unappealing to many. The income potential, says Michael Croker, Director of Operations for the Universal Lumpers service, in business for 30 years, is on the quite low […]

January 22, 2015

Channel 19

Thinker-tinkering: Inventors among the trucker set

It’s people like Chris Barbeau, Robert Jordan and others that lend credence to notion of the creativity-inspiring quality of the open road. Keep thinking, keep building, operators.

January 13, 2015

Voices

The scrum over mandatory detention pay

Following the Obama administration’s nod to the notion of mandatory detention pay in its draft highway bill, debate has intensified over whether the federal government ought to be involved in detention at all.

May 30, 2014

Channel 19

Last haul from the Texas pea harvest: Unloading with Cody Blankenship

Photos and reporting from a Bells, Tenn., unload with Cody Blankenship, who sees parking availability as the biggest issue going, despite Jason’s Law. Hours, e-logs compound the problem…

December 17, 2013

Business

Attention to detention: Solutions to the problem of uncompensated time, part 1

Everyone in the supply chain benefits from uncompensated detention time – except the driver. Some see a shift toward hourly pay as a solution; other solutions are explored in this part 1 of a two-part series on detention.

October 24, 2013

Business

‘Trucker appreciation life’

“There are a lot of people out here doing it right…. For the ones who are striving to do it like you should, thank you.”

September 15, 2013

Voices

Readers split on government, industry solutions to detention

Though all recognize the problem, grown ever more onerous with further restrictions on drivers’ hours with the new rules. Here, find a round-up of views and some examples of detention success.

September 6, 2013

Voices

POLL: Do you collect detention pay?

Preparing for an Overdrive feature on the subject of detention time and pay, this poll probes the extent to which detention is compensated industrywide.

September 5, 2013