User talk:Driverpatriot

Future Plans

Here is an outline of the content related to OTR Truck Driver Compensation (US) that I think Wikipedia is missing.

Clean up OTR Truck Driver Compensation article

• base rate (basically the existing article)
• additional pay
  • dock pay
  • offload pay
  • detention pay (link to full article)
  • idle bonus
  • fuel surcharge
  • etc. (please recommend additional categories of pay)
• per diem (link to full article)

Unpaid work time

• short miles
• layover
• loading and unloading
• chaining
• breakdown

Household goods mileage article

• insert redirect pages for common terms
• How it's calculated
  • overview of the tools used (print book, software, etc.)
  • brief explanation...even rip and cite section of print guide or software explanation that illuminates methodology
• history of this practice
• lawsuits (Swift class action, etc....may need link to full article)

Regulation of Trucking Industry

• this will be a mammoth article
• history of regulations
  • pre 1980
  • 1980 deregulation (existing article def needs work, is written with blatant pro-regulation bias, short on verifiable fact)
  • post deregulation (including CSA 2010, which is a blurb on the FMCSA article, should be full article)
• I'd need lots of time to research this, would rather reach out to folks to see if they will contribute

Lease-purchase programs

• history (?)
• create some sort of breakdown for understanding these contracts
• thinking I will create a blog for people to scan in lease-purchase contracts and have other users breakdown/rate the contract...let readers rate these breakdowns for usefulness

Detention Pay

• brief overview
• examples of specific companies breakdown policies (just a few...I've heard that Wikipedia frowns on lists:)...I mean :(
• section on Defazio bill (is this already an article?)

Per Diem

• overview
• detailed explanation
• history?
• per diem pay policies (link to full article with examples)

Driverpatriot (talk) 09:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)