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Setup: Pay Contract for Contractor Truck Driver -- Load Attributes
In order to set up rate to pay an contract driver for load-based attributes you need to set up a 'Pay Contract' for the contract driver. Select Contracts | Payment Contracts | Contract Setup from the Main Menu. This link explains how to use the 'Pay Contract Wizard' in order to set up a pay contract.
The key steps involved in setting up a pay contract for a driver employed by a subcontractor in the wizard are Steps 2 and 6:
Step 2: Select the Worker (not an employee) for the Pay Contract
In this step you select the contract driver you want to pay. In order to do this you must click on the 'Type' Worker/Operator which fills the list on the left with your contract drivers (as well as your own employees). You then select the contract driver (you can only select one at a time) you want to pay. Technically, The Logger's Edge will pay the driver's employer.
Note that there is an entry called "DRIVER" This entry is very powerful in that it acts like a wild card for drivers. If you select DRIVER, you can pay the employer of the truck driver entered on the load slip. Thus, if you want to pay all drivers based on identical terms, you can setup one pay contract using the DRIVER wild card and it will cover all workers. Moreover, if you use a DRIVER contract, but want to pay one worker an exception rate, you can set up a specific contract for that contract driver. The Logger's Edge is smart enough to choose the specific worker contract when a DRIVER contract might otherwise apply.
Example. I have five truck drivers that work for me that get paid $2.00/Tonne, with the exception of Jeff Kent whose employer gets $2.10. I set up one contract that pays "DRIVER" to cover all contract drivers. I then setup another contract to pay Jeff Kent specifically -- this contract will trump the "DRIVER" contract so that Jeff's employer will only be paid only once.
Step 6. Enter Pay Rate
This is the step where you enter the rate you want to pay the contract driver. A detailed explanation is available in the link: Setting up a Pay Rates: Calculate Pay based on Load Attributes. The screen below shows an example of the rate screen. (See Pay Contract Extensions for an explanation of how to pay based on distance.)
The two requirements for a contract driver to be paid according to a pay contract are
(1) that the block on the pay contract must match the block of the load (or the block entry must be blank), and
(2) that the activity must be Trucking.
In this screen you can set up the rate breaks you want to use to pay the contract driver. In row 1 (in the example above) I have entered a blank for the block, indicating I want a rate of $7.00/Tonne to apply to trucking for ALL blocks. In row 2, I have entered an 'exception' rate that indicates that if the trucking is performed in block '03-RAINBOW-2991', I want to pay $8.00/Tonne. The rate in row 3 is the same as in row 2, except that it has an effective date of 6/1/2004 -- meaning the rate of $9.00/Tonne will apply for loads delivered on or after 6/1/2004. For loads delivered between 1/1/2004 and 5/31/2004, on block 03-RAINBOW-2991, the rate of $8.00/Tonne is operative.
