Issue link: https://read.dmtmag.com/i/655281
TRUCKING TOPICS 18 // COMPANY DRIVER // APRIL 2016 It's hard to predict the end result, but I could envision many more carriers, as Rajkovacz suggests, moving toward a hybrid base hourly model with mileage/percentage on top of that, should the exemption's removal occur. Whether that'd amount to more or less or (as Rajkovacz also has suggested may be likely) about the same money and hours in the end is an open question. But greater value placed on time versus miles could end up driving other changes in the business of trucking, too, like effi ciency at docks and from dispatch. And while state/ federal labor laws as a general rule just don't apply to owner-operators, Ammons argues owner-operators would stand to benefi t from better rates and a better position in the marketplace in the end. In any case, I know many of you also employ drivers yourselves — what's your view? And whether you do or don't, are we headed to an hourly base model for driver pay long-term? In recent polling on the future of compensation and owner-operator business relationships, 14 percent of the total vote fell in line with the point of view that hourly was the future for drivers. Should the FAA reauthorization item stand, or, as OOIDA and others are calling for, should it go? CD