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Overdrive
| September 2015
S
ince Overdrive's last look at
detention problems and
detention-pay practices two
years ago, a lot has happened
in truckers' favor, thanks
to improved communication and tight
capacity industrywide.
"Drivers and truck lines used to get
just horribly abused" at the docks, says
The tables finally are turning. Fleets and
owner-operators, for years in a losing battle
with brokers and shippers over compensation
for wasted dock time, are exercising improved
leverage in negotiations.
BY TODD DILLS
A J.B. Hunt white paper cites holdups at shippers and
receivers as a major reason why, according to one
study, only 6.5 hours of the legally allotted 11
hours per day are spent hauling freight.
Detention
détente
