Traffic

Wayco Wayne_2

my men 2.5 hrs to get to the first job yesterday due to heavy traffic. They should have taken less than 1 on normal days. I pay them from the time they come to the shop to pick up their trucks and materials, and to pay them to sit in traffic so long frustrates me greatly. I know some companys that dont pay their men until they reach the first job but that doesnt seem fair on some levels. Getting organized and picking up materials and paperwork is work too. What do you guys do?

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Phil_6

I'm with you...

I pay them. Besides seeming fair (to them), unless they go from home to the job in their own vehicles I don't imaging it's legal. Contractors I know have their men start the day at the jobsite, but the tools and materials are at the job already so if it's an hour ride, too bad. My brother has a job like that. It's a good job with good pay for sure but sometimes the jobs are 2 hours away.

Wethead7

Travel time

Most of our staff take thier company trucks home each night. These do not report to the office or any of the shops in the mourning. Raido calls send them to thier work sites. These are paid based on when they start. They are required to send paper work on each job. They need 30 hours a week to get leave time and other benfits. Service persons are on different sites in the day, travel time is paid for service staff only. These people are paid from enroute to completion.

The constuction staff is required to be on the site before they get clock in. Driving to the site is on thier time. paper and other tasks are paid at the end of the day. These persons are required to be on one site most of the time. They are paid less and have less benifits than service staff. They are almost never call-in on weekends or at night. The fact that they are making profit targets is part of the lower pay/benfits as well.



Mike

Bill Nye

If

they were not working for you they would not have been sitting in traffic. Not real good for morale to send a guy home with a short paycheck.

Pull this a few times and you won't have any employees. I know I would let it go one time, second time you would be looking for some one to replace me.

Andy Morgan_2

Travel Time

When we bid jobs that are going to require a decent amount of travel time, we try to put a price on it and build it into the cost of the job. Travel time is also figured for scheduleing purposes, as it could literally add days to a job.


Andy Morgan

R. Morgan Mechanical, LLC

Wayco Wayne_2

Traffic in DC

is quite unpredictable. What may be 45 minutes one day is 2.5 hrs another. It's hard to plan for and quite maddening. I sometimes can schedule around problem areas and sometimes we make panels in the shop in the morning in an attempt to let traffic pass us by, but sometimes you can't avoid it. I guess it's a case of pass the costs on to the customers and hope we don't outprice ourselves in the process.

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Mark Wolff

Service Work Laws

Federal labor laws require that service employees be paid from the office on. Wherever you designate your starting point to be at, they must be paid from that point on throughout the day, even until they return to that point in the evening. Our shop is the starting point for us. Some prefer the employees homes, but meeting at the shop takes care of paperwork, punch in/out, etc.