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My experience talking to truck drivers is that many are paid per mile and per stop, not per hour. So sitting for 10 extra hours and not getting paid for it coul
by colejohnson66 5y ago
My experience talking to truck drivers is that many are paid per mile and per stop, not per hour. So sitting for 10 extra hours and not getting paid for it could easily piss someone off enough to strike. Especially if you change is as drastic as this:
> One trucker told the news outlet that prior to Abbott’s order, he made two crossings into the U.S. a day. Now, he’d be lucky to have one or two a week given the long delays at the bridges.
- ilaksh 5y agoIt could be the difference between being able to pay rent or not.
- HWR_14 5y agoSimilar problem when they are waiting 10 hours for a load to finish filling. It's all unpaid time.
- hiccuphippo 5y agoJohn Oliver recently made a show on this: https://youtu.be/phieTCxQRLA https://youtu.be/phieTCxQRLA
- sva_ 5y agoTruck drivers are treated like dog shit, seemingly anywhere. I saw some documentaries about them here in Germany, and it's an ungrateful soulsucking job. Sleep in a truck, get barely any showers, and shit in toilets that would make porta potties seem luxurious. Most of those left now seem to be eastern Europeans. People express concerns that those jobs could get automated away, but I don't necessarily share those worries. Most of those people working those jobs are near retirement age, and we'll have a real problem filling up those positions in the coming years, at least in this region. Barely any young people want to work such jobs.
- pkaye 5y agoI've been seeing news about Walmart raising their in-house trucker pay to $110k. Not sure how many truckers they have though. https://tucson.com/news/national/walmart-boosts-trucker-pay-to-110-000-leads-industry/video_fb51a758-5930-58be-bc41-a9ff37730ba9.html https://tucson.com/news/national/walmart-boosts-trucker-pay-...
- wavefunction 5y agoThey're trying to recruit existing employees for these truck driver positions.
- chottocharaii 5y agothat is misleading. $110k isn’t salary, it’s money paid to owner-drivers
- missedthecue 5y ago$95k for salaried drivers doesn't sound bad though
- bag_boy 5y agoI have worked with a lot of freight drivers. They have to do some seriously stressful tasks: - unloading pallets, some over 1.5k lbs in weight. When they’re stuck, the truck driver is responsible for getting them out, and that’s that. Not every small biz has a forklift lol. - you drop off your load in a warehouse and nobody is there to receive it/unclear directions/your pickup directions suck. You spend the next hour walking around a warehouse searching for someone to sign for you. - backing up to a dock and interrupting traffic = outraged commuters who get ridiculously upset - unloading broken pallet loads by hand. I couldn’t and wouldn’t do it.
- quartesixte 5y ago>When they’re stuck, the truck driver is responsible for getting them out, and that’s that Not to say that it doesn’t suck being a truck driver, but most of my experience has been that if the load cannot be unloaded by the receiver, the shipment is taken back and the driver is still paid for the attempt.
- edrxty 5y agoI think it depends on the type of delivery/carrier. I've had full size lift gate trucks deliver pallets to my house and they were responsible for getting 1000lb oversized pallets out and down from the truck in one piece. They weren't always successful.
- pc86 5y agoI'm genuinely curious what you're having delivered by the half-ton to your home? The only things I can think of would be a safe, or maybe gym equipment.
- Spooky23 5y agoMy father in law had a massive smoker delivered by LTL truck with “inside delivery”. It took 6 of us to roll that thing up his driveway.
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