… And repeal the trucking exemption to the FLSA.
Seriously, it’s not 1938 anymore, companies know where their drivers are and what they’re doing, there are NO excuses for maintaining the exemption to the FLSA. All it does is drive down wages by allowing gimmicky mileage, commission, bonus pay, and load pay structures.
If companies had to pay their drivers ALL on duty & drive time w/ OT after 40, you can bet they would SCREAM about higher costs, but then start jumping down brokers and warehouses throats. Things would move up, drivers would start moving, no more 8 hour waits, a lot more efficiency.
The way it stands now, having gimmicky pay lets these costs be shifted onto drivers and not shippers/receivers and ultimately consumers. Hopefully OOIDA makes progress on this issue.
Just maybe the FLSA will finally apply to trucking
As an aside, this screws over loaders and mechanics too. It’s just absurd, and we all know what would happen if we tried to make an “exemption” for load planners and dispatchers!
