Tag: detention pay

Overdrive Extra

Detention study thorough, but meaningful change proves elusive

One in five small carriers don’t even charge detention, using brokers that don’t try to collect it, and believe not billing it gives them a competitive edge.

September 26, 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

Owner-operators report mostly negative, if any, change in detention times since ELDs were mandated for most

Early detention-poll results show most readers feel that the load/unload locations they visit had either seen no change (44 percent) or actually gotten a little (18 percent) or a lot (20 percent) worse on detention since late December 2017 when the electronic logging device mandate first came into play.

March 6, 2019

Voices

POLL: Have detention times improved since the ELD mandate came into play?

What’s been your experience at shippers and receivers since the ELD mandate came into play in late 2017? Have detention times gotten shorter, longer, stayed the same? …

February 27, 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

Channel 19

Round-up: Plea for common sense at the counter of knowledge, bucking the blockchain hype machine, more

Opposing blockchain views, the march of technology and one longtime owner-operator's plea for a return to common sense by drivers and more.

June 14, 2018

Business

App-based freight matching service Convoy intros auto-detention pay, new load features

Payable on the first minute of the third hour at a shipper’s facility, drivers can simply request detention pay through the press of a button within the Convoy app.

March 27, 2018

Channel 19

‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone

‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.

February 13, 2018

Voices

‘Don’t work more for less’ is reader Tom Hall’s message on hours, ELDs

“A specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will ‘haul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'” –Tom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.

January 16, 2018

Voices

POLL: Less-than-upstanding dealings with freight brokers: What have you experienced most?

From a meager truck-ordered-not-used payment after a conveniently “cancelled” load to late payment, no payment and having to file on a bond for hopes of payment, name your most-often-experienced frustration when dealing with freight brokers.

January 15, 2018

Business

Blockchain: Better tools to fight detention abuse, with added utility for driver, carrier credentials

Using geofencing and other location data, a blockchain system might document detention time with a high degree of accuracy. If the system is part of a “smart contract,” a driver would receive detention pay quickly. Drivers/carriers, meanwhile, might use private keys to take control of their business data.

January 9, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs put spotlight on the detention quagmire

The uncertainty around detention timing in live-load/-unload situations is perhaps the biggest potential problem for drivers and carriers using ELDs. It’s also one in which ELDs may be the best tool for combatting the issue, to the benefit of drivers and fleets.

December 12, 2017