Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: pay: Page 2
Voices
POLL: Should sleeper-berth time for company drivers be compensated directly?
While recent high-profile court rulings seemed to suggest that even off-duty sleeper time for employee drivers should be subject to minimum wage compensation rules, but a Department of Labor opinion has more recently contradicted that. What’s your take?
July 24, 2019
Business
Owner-operators earn more, work more than company drivers, Convoy analysis finds
Owner-operators earn on average about $6,000 more a year than company drivers, according to analysis released Wednesday by brokerage app Convoy.
July 17, 2019
Channel 19
Time and cost, redux: Where the owner-op is the smartest guy — in a roomful of carrier execs
So, what is your time worth? Turns out, it’s likely a lot more owner-operators have a clear sense of that than fleet execs when it comes to the trucking business.
June 4, 2019
Channel 19
Market-making: ‘Mustang’ Mike Crawford creates his own for parking
Crawford carried a joke into reality recently at an Illinois truck stop mid-afternoon that was filling up fast: “For this nice, easy parking space, give me $5 and I’ll leave right now for you.”
May 29, 2019
Business
Mike Landis: Managing sticky situations in food-grade liquid bulk
The independent fell into his current dedicated hauling for a tank fleet based near his hometown in Lititz, Pa., hauling reefer freight in a trailer he owned. A mutual associate recommended his Landis & Sons one-truck business years ago to the tank fleet. Now, “They almost dispatch me as if I was one of their trucks.”
May 10, 2019
Business
Dupré Logistics revamps driver bonuses
Dupré Logistics’ new incentive plan for drivers, structured to pay bonuses for performance and longevity in its Energy Distribution Services division, will pay out $1 million in bonus compensation above base pay to drivers for the first eligible period.
May 9, 2019
Overdrive Extra
What a driver really needs
“As with so many trucking issues, a look at Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs brings us back to pay. Without money, the first basic needs, on which the entire pyramid sits, cannot be met. Last year drivers saw movement, but drivers need a sense of pride. How can we bring that back?”
April 9, 2019
Overdrive Extra
No time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention
Due to the recent findings in the ATRI study on the worst freight bottlenecks, it should be no surprise that infrastructure is a hot topic once again.
February 27, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Local/regional fuel hauling and the winter volume boost, cost tradeoffs and more
This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast features small fleet owner Dave Marti of Forrest, Ill., with six power units leased to Transport Services of Sullivan, Ill., hauling fuel in the region around his home base, and a newly built six-bay shop. Balancing the volume/cost tradeoffs is one of the many calculations the owner’s learned to make over his years in business.
February 1, 2019
Channel 19
Truckers are classified as ‘unskilled labor’? Nope
A new video from TruckerNation effectively debunks this oft-repeated myth. What it doesn’t do is highlight what’s typically happened in my own experience when those invoking the myth are asked for some clarification — what follows, often, is an invocation of the reality of the exemption from overtime-pay protections for DOT-regulated motor carrier employee drivers.
December 19, 2018
Business
Judge rules drivers should be paid minimum wage for all hours worked — including sleeper berth time
The judge’s Oct. 19 opinion says that drivers’ total compensation, once divided by the total number of hours worked, should equal at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. However, the ruling only affects this case and doesn’t have a direct impact on the industry’s per-mile pay model.
December 6, 2018
Channel 19
At risk of repeating oneself … Pay and the ‘driver shortage’
More evidence improving financial and other conditions for drivers and owner-operators, and a shift in carriers’ top recruiting concerns to those of retention, will pay dividends for the overall economic health of trucking. That goes for the markets independents operate in, too.
November 29, 2018
Previous Page
Page 2 of 16
Next Page
