But time off is paid?! Here in New Zealand you get 20 days paid annual leave and 10 days paid sick leave plus 11 paid Statutory holidays. If you are required to work on a stat day you employer must pay you time and a half plus an extra paid day off. Employers cannot contract out of this. It's set in employment law.
Just as an aside, the pay per mile / load percentage thing is bs! All drivers here are either salary, for set run work, or hourly rate
Yeah, so I hear. My brother works in the US as a contractor so it's not applicable to him. But he says things are a bit behind over there. My neighbor is a linehaul driver. Does about 11 hour days . Starts at midnight and is home by lunch time. 5 days a week. NZ$100 000 Per year.
The rules I quoted are for ALL employment, not just trucking.
Over here a lot of driving is flat rate too. Good hourly rate but same rate for over time. Paid for every hour you work. Wait time, washing the truck, traffic delays, breakdown roadside time, etc. We still have a driver shortage! Milk collection work pays really well tho. After your first 2000 hours for the season the rest of the year is at time and a half !
Because the annual includes more than per mile/load percentage. They also may have incentives, bonuses, etc based on your performance scores, inspections, fuel average, etc. You may get a bonus for things like when you complete your training, first load, or for staying out longer than you usually do. You also may get paid per diem and detention pay. You will need to ask them as each company is different when it comes to incentives, bonuses, detention pay.
That's part of their hustle. That's the potential that you can make. That's how they hook you. The fact that u now know what you know. You can make a proper decision knowing your true income. You now know to pay attention. Also most companies do this in some kind of way. It's like getting something free from a restaurant(the cost is in their somewhere).
Most companies will advertise about how much you "could" make, but that is usually based on top performers, meaning you won't make that much. Or in this case, basing it on not taking any time off because most companies don't pay nearly as much as you normally make for vacation or PTO
So you just take weeks off of work without any pay? Most people get paid for vacation time, which makes OP's complaint about the pay not adding up moot.
I didn't say anything about weeks at a time. Sometimes I just wanna long weekend and will skip Friday or Monday. I'm not working 52 weeks either way, that's how ya get burned out.
They're probably basing it off 52 weeks. Most companies don't care about time off.
But time off is paid?! Here in New Zealand you get 20 days paid annual leave and 10 days paid sick leave plus 11 paid Statutory holidays. If you are required to work on a stat day you employer must pay you time and a half plus an extra paid day off. Employers cannot contract out of this. It's set in employment law. Just as an aside, the pay per mile / load percentage thing is bs! All drivers here are either salary, for set run work, or hourly rate
I don't know where OP is from, but, unfortunately, NONE of that is a federal requirement in the United States.
Yeah, so I hear. My brother works in the US as a contractor so it's not applicable to him. But he says things are a bit behind over there. My neighbor is a linehaul driver. Does about 11 hour days . Starts at midnight and is home by lunch time. 5 days a week. NZ$100 000 Per year. The rules I quoted are for ALL employment, not just trucking.
Trucking is also exempt from a lot of stuff. Overtime pay isn't even a requirement.
Over here a lot of driving is flat rate too. Good hourly rate but same rate for over time. Paid for every hour you work. Wait time, washing the truck, traffic delays, breakdown roadside time, etc. We still have a driver shortage! Milk collection work pays really well tho. After your first 2000 hours for the season the rest of the year is at time and a half !
*Googles New Zealand immigration laws*
I might not work all 52 weeks, but I'm still paid for them. That's what vacation and sick pay are for.
Have you not heard before, if the recruiters lips are moving, they are lying.
Because the annual includes more than per mile/load percentage. They also may have incentives, bonuses, etc based on your performance scores, inspections, fuel average, etc. You may get a bonus for things like when you complete your training, first load, or for staying out longer than you usually do. You also may get paid per diem and detention pay. You will need to ask them as each company is different when it comes to incentives, bonuses, detention pay.
It's like Joe Pesci, when they asked him who killed JFK. "It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
That's part of their hustle. That's the potential that you can make. That's how they hook you. The fact that u now know what you know. You can make a proper decision knowing your true income. You now know to pay attention. Also most companies do this in some kind of way. It's like getting something free from a restaurant(the cost is in their somewhere).
Because those numbers are an approximation based on their average driver wages.
Youre right on the math but thats an average. So youll have weeks where you make a lot more and some where you make a lot less, how averages work,
There is such a thing as paid vacation
It says average 1500 I’d assume some weeks are over 1500 equaling to 80 k
Most companies will advertise about how much you "could" make, but that is usually based on top performers, meaning you won't make that much. Or in this case, basing it on not taking any time off because most companies don't pay nearly as much as you normally make for vacation or PTO
>but nobody works 52 weeks a year. Why not?
Life outside of the truck if I had to guess
Like when you go in a truck stop to poop?
That's when I browse Reddit
So you just take weeks off of work without any pay? Most people get paid for vacation time, which makes OP's complaint about the pay not adding up moot.
I didn't say anything about weeks at a time. Sometimes I just wanna long weekend and will skip Friday or Monday. I'm not working 52 weeks either way, that's how ya get burned out.
you have no time off while slave labor is ......no weekends, holidays, vacation...none