My friends over at Good Ol Boyz Podcast had me back again, to discuss a few things on their Tuesday evening Live Stream.
Click here to listen on their Patreon, and if you like what you hear, consider listening to the rest of their deep catalogue, which includes many very interesting guests such as Curtis Yarvin, Michael Anton, Malcolm Kyeyune, Charles Haywood, and several years worth more; when you see the value here, consider becoming a paying subscriber like myself.
Items discussed -
- I fielded some listener questions about trucking, the autonomy of the job being lost, changing tires in The Outback, and uhhhh Lot Lizards?
- The Guaranteeing Overtime For Truckers Act, how it started, and how it’s going.
More on the GOT Act here -
- The Ongoing shitshow that is the Public Order Emergency Commission/Emergencies Act Inquiry in Canada
- Curtis Yarvin’s observations on The Media Driven State and how this relates to Trudeau and The Canadian Media lying themselves, and the country, into this mess
- The Canadian Anti-Hate Network and how they fell for a meme, brought the entire Canadian Media and Political Establishment with them, and the resulting political imprisonment of Jeremy Mackenzie
And we carry on with commentary on various other news items, as The Boyz usually do on their Tuesday show.
Thanks for listening, and feel free to send this to any trucker or podcast junkie in your life, it’s one way to while away the time on the road, or in an airplane, or lifting iron.
Stay tuned here for more commentary from me; work has slowed right down to nothing and I should have some more time for writing this week.
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Listening to it now, loving it.
Re the GOT, thought you might like to know how it's done in the UK. Most drivers here are paid per hour, or, in a minority of cases, a flat day rate. Driver's will also get a nightly allowance for a night out, which is tax free, and a daily meal allowance, which is also tax free.
There is a rule that says an employer must "not make payments to drivers related to speed of delivery, distances travelled and/or the amount of goods carried if that would encourage breaches of the rules". Which means drivers can't be paid just by the mile or km.
Bonuses are another matter, and I believe many tipper drivers are paid a per-tonne bonus, car transporter drivers get a per-car bonus, and my old employer, where I did international (European) work, paid a day rate, plus allowances, plus a percentage of gross revenue, which was quite a good way of doing it IMO. They could just leave you to it, knowing you had at least some incentive to get on with it. You'd go to the desk Monday morning, and it would be "OK, 4 drops Germany, last one near Austria by 1 pm Thursday, try to clear customs [in Germany] by the end of tomorrow". Then it would be up to me when I maxed my hours, which ferry time I took, and what decent "Autohof" I choose to stop in. If there wasn't a problem I wouldn't even to speak to them for 4 days.
Sorry, I'm waffling. Thought you might like to know how it goes here. We have the same problem here with DCs racking up waiting time (4 hours for me the other day at one of our leading supermarkets), and we all deserve to be paid for it. Good luck in your campaign, buddy, I'll be following how it goes.