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How would you incentivize truck drivers without encouraging law-breaking? Per mile and per hour both encourage driving more. And per load does too, because yo
by jedberg 4y ago
How would you incentivize truck drivers without encouraging law-breaking? Per mile and per hour both encourage driving more. And per load does too, because you can get in more loads if you drive more hours (and faster!).
The only way you could avoid it is paying a flat salary. But the companies would never do that because then the drivers would go slowly and follow all the laws, cutting their profits. And besides, most truck drivers are owner/operators, so there is no one to pay them a salary.
Unless the government steps in. Have the government pay them for resting, so they make the same money either way. That's about the only way I can think of.
- kd5bjo 4y agoYou could also require the per-mile payments to match what the electronic logs show, so that driving off the clock means that they’re driving for free.
- bsder 4y ago> per hour both encourage driving more. That doesn't make sense. Whether you delivered one load or two loads in 12 hours, you get paid the same. In addition, it incentivizes the idiots at load and unload to do their job as the trucker doesn't care if he sits as he gets paid the same. "Per hour" is really the only thing that aligns the truck drivers with overall safety. You still need these kinds of trackers as the trucking companies will then be incentivized to give drivers 12 hours to drive 2500 miles, but at least you won't have the truckers trying to subvert them, as well.