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Yeah it's $40 an hour for vacation and sick pay. Holidays are $32.50 I think. They normally go up each year with the pay increase. One of those things we will find out later.
 
drummerforhire said:
It’s “up to” $40 an hour. If you have a little part time run you’ll get a little less.
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$25.50 an hour for vacation pay isn't a little less, more like a lot less. 80 hours total vacation pay this year for $2040, as on my pay stub yearly summary. Run of 2140 miles per week. Holliday pay 40 hours for $1280 which comes to $32 an hour. Sick pay 24 hours for $612 which comes to again $25.50.
So obviously there is a big discretion between the number of miles you run the previous year to the amount of vacation/sick pay amount received. Holiday pay the same.
 
elviscaprice said:
$25.50 an hour for vacation pay isn't a little less, more like a lot less. 80 hours total vacation pay this year for $2040, as on my pay stub yearly summary. Run of 2140 miles per week. Holliday pay 40 hours for $1280 which comes to $32 an hour. Sick pay 24 hours for $612 which comes to again $25.50.
So obviously there is a big discretion between the number of miles you run the previous year to the amount of vacation/sick pay amount received. Holiday pay the same.
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I don't get why you're not maxed out on vacation pay. With a 2140 mile weekly run it's still up in the the $80k's annually. That comes to around 40 bucks an hour on an 8 hour day. Even tho with those miles you probably work less than 40 hours
 
mildew said:
I don't get why you're not maxed out on vacation pay. With a 2140 mile weekly run it's still up in the the $80k's annually. That comes to around 40 bucks an hour on an 8 hour day. Even tho with those miles you probably work less than 40 hours
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Thanks Mildew. You were right. After you comment I did some more digging as to why I didn't receive the maximum vacation/sick pay of $40 but the minimum of $25.50. Then I remembered I did a transfer 8 1/2 months into 2022 from an Estes East terminal to a West. Could it be possible that corporate messed up and determined my rate from only the 3 1/2 months at West? Sure did. I'll be getting the additional $1500 I should have received next pay check. Owe you a beer!!! Cheers
 
elviscaprice said:
Thanks Mildew. You were right. After you comment I did some more digging as to why I didn't receive the maximum vacation/sick pay of $40 but the minimum of $25.50. Then I remembered I did a transfer 8 1/2 months into 2022 from an Estes East terminal to a West. Could it be possible that corporate messed up and determined my rate from only the 3 1/2 months at West? Sure did. I'll be getting the additional $1500 I should have received next pay check. Owe you a beer!!! Cheers
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Good deal!
Glad you've checked into it and they've found out the mistake
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nctruckdriver said:
Thx for the info. I personally can’t wait. Thought of staying extra board but I think I’ll take a run instead. Good money on extra board but tired of Northeast and the uncertainty.
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Thinking of switching to extra myself, not for the money, just tired of driving back and forth to work everyday, then looking for a tractor, having to fill it up again, They like to tear my assigned one up when I'm not there for some strange reason or another
We have a bunch of runs, day and night and I don't like any of them lol. I ran a couple of those 648 mile daytime runs for other drivers recently.
When I finished for the day I said to myself, "Anybody that runs one of these runs don't run one of these runs because they want too, it's because they have too!!"
That was a full day. Full day meaning like 13.5 hours. It's 2 days for some. We also have 6 hour daytime and nighttime runs.
 
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mildew said:
Thinking of switching to extra myself, not for the money, just tired of driving back and forth to work everyday, then looking for a tractor, having to fill it up again, They like to tear my assigned one up when I'm not there for some strange reason or another
We have a bunch of runs, day and night and I don't like any of them lol. I ran a couple of those 648 mile daytime runs for other drivers recently.
When I finished for the day I said to myself, "Anybody that runs one of these runs don't run one of these runs because they want too, it's because they have too!!"
That was a full day. Full day meaning like 13.5 hours. It's 2 days for some. We also have 6 hour daytime and nighttime runs.
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City dispatch at my terminal doesn’t care if the assigned tractor to a run is back on time or not. I’m torn between a lay down or turn. If it wasn’t because I run a lot of northeast I would stay extra board. It’s crazy the difference between running northeast or the south. I can get about 3k miles down south. Up north usually have to work 14 hours to get any miles.
 
mildew said:
Thinking of switching to extra myself, not for the money, just tired of driving back and forth to work everyday, then looking for a tractor, having to fill it up again, They like to tear my assigned one up when I'm not there for some strange reason or another
We have a bunch of runs, day and night and I don't like any of them lol. I ran a couple of those 648 mile daytime runs for other drivers recently.
When I finished for the day I said to myself, "Anybody that runs one of these runs don't run one of these runs because they want too, it's because they have too!!"
That was a full day. Full day meaning like 13.5 hours. It's 2 days for some. We also have 6 hour daytime and nighttime runs.
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648 mite as well drive a camper to work
 
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