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“We believe all drivers should be paid for all hours worked, because once you come on duty, you’re working. “Drivers should be paid detention time,” said Randall.
Ray Randall, a truck driver for over 20 years who has worked across the US said he had spent hours in line at ports, unpaid. More than 2 million Americans work as truck drivers in the US today. When adjusted for inflation, the average pay for a truck driver in the US in 1980 was about $110,000 annually, compared with about $48,000 today. Pay for truck drivers has dwindled in recent decades even as the industry has consistently complained it can not find enough drivers. We don’t need taskforces and studies,” said Fernandez, who also serves as deputy secretary for Truckers Movement for Justice. This has been going for years and has only gotten worse with the lack of federal action. The group said they met with senior officials from the DoT in 2021 as part of Joe Biden’s trucking action plan, a set of initiatives meant to increase the supply of truck drivers by creating new pathways into the profession, but that they have yet to see any movement on their three core demands. On 1 May, a group of about 75 truck drivers with Truckers Movement for Justice held a protest outside the US Department of Transportation (DoT) offices in Washington DC to demand action on wage theft in the form of a lack of overtime pay and unpaid wait times for delivering or taking on loads, and a lack of transparency of freight bills that have contributed to cuts in drivers’ compensation. “My whole week gets wrecked because of one customer that just didn’t care about the time. Even if there’s an appointment, they just don’t show much that they care about wasting my time,” he said.
“I think that I’ve got my schedule down and then just one customer can completely mess it up.
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