Overnight Drivers
Kent
42 Posts
We have truck drivers that will occasionally be out overnight. They will sleep in the sleeper portion of the truck. What are our obligations to pay them? Do we only pay for their drive time or do we have additional responsibility? If not, is there anything wrong with us paying them an additional 2-3 hours of straight time to compensate them for the night out?
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I always assumed third-shift jobs paid more due to the time of the shift.
Good luck.
A company I used to work for had both owner operators and company drivers. The company drivers were paid by the mile. We occasionally compared the logged driving hours with the paycheck to make sure we were meeting minimum wage requirements, but never had a DOL audit to challenge our practice. No one questioned their sleep time or their stand around time when the loading and unloading were being done.