Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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commercial carrier journal | june 2018 21 JASON CANNON is Equipment Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail jcannon@randallreilly.com or call (205) 248-1175. zations – the American Trucking Associations and Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association – trade barbs with one another and with their respective opposing memberships, dragging the industry they claim to support through the mud. However, neither the smallest single-truck owner-operators nor drivers for the largest publicly-traded carriers deserve to have their hours of service held hostage by shippers that can't manage a clock. Detention is a punishment some of us received far too oen in school. It shouldn't be an accepted practice in trucking, casually written off as a cost of doing business. According to research compiled recently by CCJ sister publications Truckers News and Overdrive, drivers cite "lack of respect" just behind "low pay" as the top two reasons they leave employers. Valuing drivers' time, and compensating them for that time, is an ex- tension of respect. Implementing a system that pays drivers for the hours they use, especially if some of those hours are wasted on a shipper that's behind schedule, takes care of both of those issues. It shows the drivers you respect their ability to uphold their end of the deal by showing up on time, and it compensates them better than the cents per mile that currently may have to be spread over multi- ple unplanned days away from home. WANT MORE EQUIPMENT NEWS? Scan the barcode to sign up for the CCJ Equipment Weekly e-mail newsletter or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK. It shouldn't be casually written off as a cost of doing business. Lite Check_CCJ0618_PG.indd 1 4/27/18 1:32 PM