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Sep 17, 2007

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE? * USA - No wonder so many drivers stress out and have heart attacks?

Truckers' Questions Revised

USA -victimofthieves, by ElevenBravo /newsgroups.derkeiler.com -16 Sep 2007: -- ...
- If you make $8.50 an hour, at 70 hrs, and 50 weeks a year, you will gross $36,125 a year with over time?
- If you make $11.00 an hour, at 70 hrs, and 50 weeks a year, you will gross $46,750 a year with over time?
- If you make $10.50 an hour, at 70 hrs, and 41 weeks a year (6 days off a month), you will gross $36,592 a year with over time?
- If you make $13.00 an hour, at 70 hrs, and 41 weeks a year (6 days off a month), you will gross $45,305 a year with over time?
- $150 a week covers additional expenses of living on the road, $150 a week covers not seeing your family that week, truckers should receive$300 a week incentive pay for the road?

* Compare to $13 an hour, entry level construction job, $1105 per week (70 hrs with overtime) plus $300 a week incentive pay would equal $16.50 per hour or $57,502 a year with 41 weeks, or 6 days off a month?

Furthermore: - "Incentive Pay" also covers getting up in the middle of the night when you hear noises and make sure someone is not jacking your fuel or cargo?

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