Trucker's Vacation

When it comes to a regular job, you are paid for vacation based off your hourly pay rate (8 hours per day off) or for salary, you are paid the normal amount. I know most companies offer drivers a week after being with them a year but how do truck companies calculate vacation pay being that a truck driver's pay is based of miles driven? Since they are not driving, how do they decide what to pay them?

This is my experience with this. They took my total miles over the year and came up with an average number of miles per week. Whatever amount of pay that number would produce became the dollar amount for my vacation pay. I think some companies use a different method. Hopefully you'll get some other responses, but that is the way mine has been calculated.

This is my experience with this. They took my total miles over the year and came up with an average number of miles per week. Whatever amount of pay that number would produce became the dollar amount for my vacation pay. I think some companies use a different method. Hopefully you'll get some other responses, but that is the way mine has been calculated.

That's not a bad deal! Swift is just a flat rate--$500 for one week of vacation if I remember right.

Pianoman talks newbie:

That's not a bad deal! Swift is just a flat rate--$500 for one week of vacation if I remember right.

That's the first year. After that you get a whopping $grand on your company anniversary. Then you work out time off with your DM. (Watch those days off, you may need to give up your "Herschel" if you're gone too long.)

That's the first year. After that you get a whopping $grand on your company anniversary. Then you work out time off with your DM. (Watch those days off, you may need to give up your "Herschel" if you're gone too long.)

Gotcha, that's what I thought. Yeah, they count the $1000 as 2 weeks of vacation.