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On 9/21/2013 11:18 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 9/21/13 11:03 PM, wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:34:38 -0500, Califbill wrote: We are discussing truck drivers. Figure rack person separate. They are paid separately. And they probably net $50k after road expenses. http://w3.primeinc.com/driver-benefits for PRIME. When you read down, that is a tough job. They expect a 2 man team to drive almost 17,000 miles a month. I am not sure how many hours you actually have to be driving to do that but two 40 hour a week drivers only have 336 hours. That means they have to average about 50 MPH and everything else is overtime. That is why they want contractors who do not get overtime (self employed) I am guessing they push the "10 hour" rule to the limits and beyond. Like Red Sovine says" I'm talking little white pills and my eyes are open wide". I was a teamster (local 639 Harry) just long enough to know I didn't want to do that for a living. I was a teamster for two summers, the one before I left for college and the one after I finished my freshman year. The next summer, I got a union job as a welder's apprentice at a boiler factory. My dad had a lot of friends in the trades, and he was able to make a few phone calls and get me a spot for the summer. I was delighted to have these jobs, because they paid a lot more than the crappy minimum wage summer jobs any of my friends had and, actually, they were kind of fun, albeit backbreaking. The summer after my junior year, I was hired by the newspaper for a full-time job as a reporter, and worked five evenings a week while completing my senior year. The newsroom workers at that time were not organized, but typesetters and printers sure were. All of the typesetters were grads of schools for the deaf, and were terrific at operating the banks of linotype machines. Truck driving, not my summer union grunt job. Try to keep up. |
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