@TMK11746851 I[Ryan Johnson] Am A Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you don’t already know how trucker pay works, you’re likely going to be surprised, maybe even shocked, but you’ll understand why there’s a driver shortage.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you think $2.13 an hour is far too low of a wage for servers, as I do, it’s worse for truck drivers.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
While servers are paid almost nothing hourly, with the expectation that tips will make up the difference, truck drivers get NO guarantees of ANY wage, and we are NOT expected to get tips.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
Truck drivers, farm workers, and restaurant staff are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). [Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
While many states have corrected some of the worst abuses against farm workers and restaurant staff (and many have not), [Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
the one profession that is still untouched by any reform is trucking, largely because of federal interstate commerce exemptions.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
Trucking companies will use every loophole they can to not pay their workers, and the laws are so loose that employers can literally make up the rules as they go.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
If you’re an employer who wants to rob their employees blind, trucking is the profession for you.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
Truck drivers can legally be paid in multiple ways.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
This is true for all levels of trucking, either direct employee, ‘independent contractor’ owner ops leased to a company, or owner operators under their own authority.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
They can be paid hourly, a percentage of the load, by the mile, flat rate, or a combination of all of these.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
But in all of these cases, the wage laws that apply to 99% of the public who are paid hourly do not apply to trucker pay.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
Before that, however, I want to make it clear that large amounts of unpaid time for everyone but hourly drivers are not a bug of this system, they are a feature of it.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
The system encourages drivers to lie about how much time they work for free, by paying them only if they are moving, or a pittance(or nothing)if they are stopped.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
Over the road (OTR) drivers can only legally work 70 hours a week, local drivers can only work 60, so what does a driver trying to make ends meet do?[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
You lie about how much time you sit, as you aren’t getting paid, and will only be paid when you are driving.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
The trucking industry could get people back tomorrow. It’s simple: ALL HOURS WORKED ARE PAID.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
This should be their new motto. Advertise jobs as $30 an hour, plus overtime after 8 hours.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
Pay for parking, load and unload, breakdowns. Pay drivers like every other industry pays its workers. The driver shortage will resolve itself overnight.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]
They[Trucking Industry] have the power to fix this problem. When truck drivers are interviewed about the “driver shortage,” universally, it comes back to pay. Yes, it really is this simple.[Read more at bit.ly/30S61Io by Ryan Johnson via @Medium]

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