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You don't have to be an owner-operator to write a book about trucking any more than you need to lose your virginity to write a book about sex. All that is required to write a good book on any topic is the ability to gather good information and present it in a reader-valued way. You don't need to...

With our carrier, D-time is not specifically addressed in the lease agreement that contractors sign. The policy is stated by dispatchers and contractor coordinators when we ask, but it is inconsistent. Sometimes we get paid D-time and sometimes we do not. For example, we got paid for a delay a...

In another thread, the question came up about what the different carriers pay for detention time and under what circumstances. That being a topic in itself, I started a new thread for it here. For expedier wannabees and newbies reading this, detention time (D-time) is not the bad thing you...

I can't speak for our carrier about why they don't pay. That is an inside policy decision that I am not privy to. I can say that our contract does not specifically address detention time. When a circumstance develops where a truck is delayed and a driver might reasonably expect D-time pay, we...

pjjjjj, the word that weaves your responses together is "should." No one will disagree with you that things "should" be a certain way. The problem is that they are not. In fact, there are brokers that do close up shop overnight. In fact, there are shippers that go home for dinner and don't...