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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1342461" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Not true.</p><p></p><p>They are going to give you the stops they are going to give you.</p><p></p><p>A 10.5 hour paid day is a 10.5 hour paid day regardless of how long your lunch break is. The only difference between taking a 30 minute lunch and a 60 minute lunch is what time of night you finally get home. Most people would choose to spend the additional 30 min. at home with their families rather than sitting in a restaurant or in the front seat of a package car for a full hour.</p><p></p><p>Years ago our local fought with management over the right of the driver to decide whether or not to take a 30 min lunch. The company <strong>wanted </strong>a forced hour because it knew a significant number of drivers were skipping all or part of that (thereby working off of the clock) in order to get home at a decent time. Back then, you had to call in and get management "approval" (which was almost never granted) to take 30 minutes. We are adults, why should we have to call in and beg for permission to a management person whose only goal is to try and screw us out of 30 minutes of pay? We won the fight, and now the only way the company can force a full hour is if service would be negatively affected such as on a route with late scheduled pickups.</p><p></p><p>It boils down to the driver being paid for all hours worked and having at least some measure of control over what time he gets home to his family.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1342461, member: 14668"] Not true. They are going to give you the stops they are going to give you. A 10.5 hour paid day is a 10.5 hour paid day regardless of how long your lunch break is. The only difference between taking a 30 minute lunch and a 60 minute lunch is what time of night you finally get home. Most people would choose to spend the additional 30 min. at home with their families rather than sitting in a restaurant or in the front seat of a package car for a full hour. Years ago our local fought with management over the right of the driver to decide whether or not to take a 30 min lunch. The company [B]wanted [/B]a forced hour because it knew a significant number of drivers were skipping all or part of that (thereby working off of the clock) in order to get home at a decent time. Back then, you had to call in and get management "approval" (which was almost never granted) to take 30 minutes. We are adults, why should we have to call in and beg for permission to a management person whose only goal is to try and screw us out of 30 minutes of pay? We won the fight, and now the only way the company can force a full hour is if service would be negatively affected such as on a route with late scheduled pickups. It boils down to the driver being paid for all hours worked and having at least some measure of control over what time he gets home to his family. [/QUOTE]
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