![]() He also criticized the lack of enforcement around truck drivers’ ability to see freight bills. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. William McKelvie, a truck driver for over 25 years, explained that in addition to unpaid detention time, broker fraud and a lack of overtime pay, layover rates for overnight hauls have decreased in years, down from $500-$1,000 to $250 or less. TriumphPay, a carrier payments platform, estimates that at least $500m to $700m of shippers’ and brokers’ freight payments are going to double brokers annually. Double brokers use false identities to bid on loads from customers, they take the fee and then post the load again, leaving a legitimate broker or company to fulfill the shipment they ultimately aren’t paid to do. Brokers coordinate shipments by matching truck drivers with loads requiring delivery. We can be on duty 12 hours a day and we’re not getting paid for those 12 hours.”Ī worsening issue for truck drivers, he said are increasing cases of “double broker fraud”. Also, after 40 hours, companies pay employees overtime but drivers don’t get any overtime and we can put in 70-plus hours a week. If you come to a shipper and have to wait, I’m working. ![]() “We believe all drivers should be paid for all hours worked, because once you come on duty, you’re working. “Drivers should be paid detention time,” said Randall. Ray Randall, a truck driver for over 20 years who has worked across the US said he had spent hours in line at ports, unpaid. More than 2 million Americans work as truck drivers in the US today. When adjusted for inflation, the average pay for a truck driver in the US in 1980 was about $110,000 annually, compared with about $48,000 today. Pay for truck drivers has dwindled in recent decades even as the industry has consistently complained it can not find enough drivers. We don’t need taskforces and studies,” said Fernandez, who also serves as deputy secretary for Truckers Movement for Justice. This has been going for years and has only gotten worse with the lack of federal action. ![]() The group said they met with senior officials from the DoT in 2021 as part of Joe Biden’s trucking action plan, a set of initiatives meant to increase the supply of truck drivers by creating new pathways into the profession, but that they have yet to see any movement on their three core demands. On 1 May, a group of about 75 truck drivers with Truckers Movement for Justice held a protest outside the US Department of Transportation (DoT) offices in Washington DC to demand action on wage theft in the form of a lack of overtime pay and unpaid wait times for delivering or taking on loads, and a lack of transparency of freight bills that have contributed to cuts in drivers’ compensation. “My whole week gets wrecked because of one customer that just didn’t care about the time. Even if there’s an appointment, they just don’t show much that they care about wasting my time,” he said. “I think that I’ve got my schedule down and then just one customer can completely mess it up.
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