A Ram store is a work-truck store: flat-rate gas bays, an hourly Cummins diesel bay, and a fleet desk on flats because the gross is too thin for a retail percentage. WageTime was built for the work-truck store.
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A Ram rooftop pays nothing like a retail SUV store. Each item below is either an afternoon of the office manager’s time at close or a quiet liability that compounds while nobody has the hours to check it.
Heavy-duty Cummins work doesn’t fit book time cleanly, so many stores pay the diesel bay hourly with overtime while the gas bays stay on flat-rate flag hours. One service department, two pay models, and generic payroll wants to run every tech on one.
The 6.7L Cummins carries a powertrain warranty that runs for years past the gas basic coverage. So diesel warranty flag hours keep landing long after a gas truck would be customer-pay, and the warranty side of the flat-rate true-up never goes quiet on the diesel side.
The CP4 high-pressure-fuel-pump recall is a hardware job, not a flash, and it lands on the handful of diesel-capable techs. A campaign like that concentrates a wave of warranty flag hours on specific people, and the office has to route and pay it right.
Fleet and commercial trucks carry thin gross, so the desk pays a flat per-unit or a mini, not 20-30% of front-end gross. The commercial plan and the retail plan settle in the same close (one on percentage, one on flats), and the spreadsheet keeps both by hand.
A manufacturer On The Job upfit or graphics allowance passes through the deal, but it isn’t front-end retail gross. Drop it into the commissionable base by accident and every commercial salesperson is overpaid. Catch it by hand every month, or don’t.
ProMaster and chassis-cab units go out through upfitters and courtesy delivery. The prep, the commercial PDI, and the drive-away are real labor (flat fees, hourly, sometimes a 1099 driver) that lives outside the retail commission close and gets paid late, if it gets tracked at all.
The whole shop runs on one WageTime payroll: flat-rate flag hours for the gas and light-duty bays, and hourly, overtime-eligible pay for the heavy-duty Cummins diesel bay, side by side in one service department, without a second system.
| Tech · bay | Rate | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G. Alvarez #04 · gasFlat-rate flag · ASE A-series | $34.00 | Current |
| T. Bishop #08 · dieselHourly + OT · Cummins CMI L1 | $38.50 | Current |
| R. Okonkwo #12 · dieselHourly + OT · CMI L1/T-series | $41.00 | Current |
| D. Pratt #17 · gasASE A1-A5 · → $30.00 Aug 1 | $27.50 | Queued |
Replaces the second payroll a store spins up just to pay the diesel bay hourly, and the retro fix when a Cummins cert posts and the rate doesn’t move.
The diesel warranty tail changes pay for years: WageTime imports warranty and customer-pay flag hours split by repair order and trues every flat-rate tech up to the wage floor each period. Tell us your DMS on the demo and we’ll confirm the exact flow.
Replaces the assumption that a diesel truck stops generating warranty flag hours at 36 months, and the by-hand true-up nobody runs until a claim shows up.
WageTime runs the commercial pay plan and the retail pay plan in the same close: the fleet desk settles on flats and minis while the floor settles on percentage, with no second system and no side sheet.
Replaces the second spreadsheet the commercial manager keeps, and the overpaid check when an upfit allowance slips into the commissionable gross.
Upfit prep, commercial PDI, and drive-away driving get their own pay bucket: WageTime books each as a flat fee or hourly, W-2 or 1099, settled on the same run and kept out of the retail commission math.
| Person · class | Pay type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| J. Rivas · W-2ProMaster upfit coord + PDI | Hourly | 6.0 hrs |
| K. Two Bears · W-2Chassis-cab ship-thru finish | Flat prep fee | $120.00 |
| L. Byrd · 1099Courtesy delivery · 2 units | Flat fee | $300.00 |
| P. Osei · 1099Courtesy delivery · 1 unit | Flat fee | $150.00 |
Replaces the accessory-manager’s side sheet of who prepped and who drove, and the delivery fee that gets paid a month late because it wasn’t a sale.
Full-service payroll is $10 a month per person paid that month, plus $50 a month per company, with unlimited runs. No long-term contracts, no per-run charges.
Off-cycle runs and bonuses cost nothing extra. No long-term contracts; cancel anytime.
Example: 50 people paid × $10 + $50 company = $550 for the month
HR & hiring, onboarding, PTO, time tracking, benefits, and workers’ comp are optional add-ons, priced separately when you’re ready.
See a demoBoth on one payroll. WageTime runs flat-rate flag hours for the gas and light-duty bays and hourly, overtime-eligible pay for the heavy-duty Cummins diesel bay, applying the right overtime and regular-rate math to each. Rates bind to certifications with effective dates, so a Cummins CMI-cert-tied diesel rate sits alongside the shop’s standard ASE rates without a second system.
Yes. The 6.7L Cummins powertrain is covered years past the gas basic warranty, so diesel warranty flag hours keep landing and the warranty-vs-customer-pay split stays warranty-heavy far longer. WageTime imports that split per repair order, trues flat-rate techs up to the wage floor each period, and routes recall flag hours (the CP4 fuel-pump campaign included) to the diesel-cert techs cleared for the work.
WageTime runs a commercial pay plan beside the retail one in the same close. Fleet units settle on a flat per-unit or a guaranteed mini, often on a base salary plus per-unit amount, while the floor settles on percentage of front-end gross: computed on their own terms and paid together, with unit minis, volume tiers, and draw offsets applied to both.
A manufacturer upfit or graphics allowance stays out of the commissionable base. It passes through a commercial deal (often up to $1,000) but isn’t front-end retail gross, so it isn’t part of the base WageTime computes the percentage on. The allowance still shows on the deal; it just doesn’t inflate the salesperson’s gross-based pay.
Ship-thru prep and drive-away pay as their own bucket, apart from retail commission. Upfit coordination and commercial PDI can pay hourly, finish-out and drive-away can pay a flat fee, and a courtesy-delivery driver can be a W-2 employee or a 1099 contractor on the same pay day, each classified correctly. Everything settles on one run, and off-cycle runs cost nothing extra.
Pricing is $50 per company per month plus $10 for each person paid that month: no long-term contract, cancel anytime. Payroll runs are unlimited, so an off-cycle delivery-fee or final check costs nothing extra, and each rooftop files under its own EIN, deposits included. Switching is full-service and paid: a specialist configures your entities, pay plans, and people; after go-live, support is real people, around the clock.
A warranty-heavy fortnight of Cummins diesel flag hours, the commercial desk’s flats and minis, the upfit allowances, and the drive-away fees off the side sheet. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo store. Bring the diesel timecards and the fleet deals, and you’ll know inside the meeting whether it carries your comp plans.
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