Yeah, I believe with modern tech. they’ll be able to track it. But over the road drivers, what are we tracking? Just hours driven? What else?
when on the job. what does a truck drivers duties entail?
they should get paid for each hour they are performing job functions.
Allan
Truck drivers rarely unload or load their trucks. Unless they are hauling for themselves.
back in texas in 1976, worked for a supermarket Handy Andy. truck drivers rode to Houston from San Antonio (appox 440 miles round trip) to deliver produce to their supermakets there. Drivers picked me up at first stop of the night and proceeded to deliver produce to each of the stores. we both unloaded the truck.
Allan
GPS is not all it’s cracked up to be.
This year ranchers who rent federal land to graze their cattle on learned that there would no longer be any fence fixed, no gates would be closed it would all be virtual fences.
Ranchers had to put shock collars on all their cattle. Calves, cows, bulls. That in itself took a lot of time.
Problem is GPS was not really reliable. The ranchers found cows that were severely dehydrated because the collar on the cow was shocking them if they moved out of the small area that the GPS had set for that collar. They found calves that were malnourished because the cow was locked into a small area and the calf could not find its’ mother. Collars fell off and cattle were miles from where they were supposed to be.
Plus, the added problem of the fact that once cattle learned to stay in their small area it was a nightmare to get the cattle to cross the boundary and move on to a new pasture. The cattle would move up to the boundary and when you tried to move them across, they would mill around until they would finally explode back at you and run for the hills.
from the gps insight website.
“Analysis of the GPS information provided by GPS Insight yields an accuracy rate of approximately 99.88%”
not perfect but nearly so.
everytime an uber has picked me up they come exactly to the right spot.
no misses.
Allan
Nice well intended ■■■■■■■■ fron people who don’t actually work in the trucking industry. This is just intended to raise costs and push US drivers out of the market. Some company drivers get paid a flat hourly rate and some get paid by the mile. Some also get stop pay and unloading (lumper) pay built into their compensation. Transportation is about moving freight, in a specific time frame, over a specific distance, to meet a scheduled delivery time. All industries are not the same, and neither are work schedules. Also many truck drivers are contractors, who provide their own truck, their own fuel, and maintenance, licensing and registration/permits. They don’t work hourly, they work by the job, with their compensation priced as $x.xx per mile to cover expenses + profit over each delivery. And whether a company driver, or contractor, their work is modeled around the DOT Hours of Service regulations. This is going to do 2 things: Raise the cost of freight and drive shippers to use foreign transportation companies out of Mexico and Canada to deliver US freight. NAFTA allows foreign transportation companies to send their drivers into the US with loads, then haul freight around the US. That foreign driver, and his rig, work under his companies compensation package, under the rules of his home country, where he actually picks up his pay. Cross the border with a load, pull freight under his pay rules, and his company gets to under cut US drivers and companies by the Delta between their wages and US wages.
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Not anymore. Now you are expected to unload your own freight. Very few trucking companies or the site they deliver to hire people to unload trucks by hand.
I was expected to have the equipment and manpower need to unload any freight delivered to a construction site.
I am expected to load and unload cattle delivered to or picked up at the ranch.
I am expected to have the equipment to unload feed ect delivered to the ranch.
You need to get out of the seventies and live in the world today.
GPS might work in your anthill. It does not work everywhere.
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correction 3 things.
the third being the raise of the pay for the truck driver.
Allan
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The pay of a driver who loses the contract, or whose company loses the contract, is $0.00.
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Looks like labor is for it and the companies are against it.
I will go with labor.
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how about deliveries to a supermarket.
most days in NYC, the local dagastinos near where i work. (10th ave between 54 and 55th streets, they have truck deliveries
drivers double park and then off load their truck onto the sidewalk.
Allan.
the usual suspects taking the company side.
and the usual suspects taking labors side.
i am shocked.
Allan
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The usual ignorant and foolish suspects, bleating for organized labor proposals, without a functional understanding of business and economics.
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I know.
Things have changed. You’re old.
Run to automation just as fast as you can.
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Things have been strangled by excessive government regulation.*
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You realize that none of this is a problem with GPS right?
These problems result from the supplier of the collars not programming the control zones properly. We’re talking a completely different application of location data here.
GPS is very reliable, how the vendor uses that data is on them, not GPS itself (not saying you are the programmer).
WW
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