It’s been longer than a week, and more than 60 log trucks are still shut down in Montana as their drivers protest the low rates they say a timber company is paying.

According to The Missoulian, the truckers went on strike June 6 because they said Plum Creek Timber Co., Kalispell, MT, wasn’t paying them enough to cover rising expenses such as fuel costs.

The Missoulian reported that the timber company pays drivers $59 per hour, a rate the drivers claim is not based on real hours but rather on estimations of how long a drive should take.

The drivers claim that the actual rate comes out closer to $40 per hour when wait times and actual mileage are figured in. They are demanding a pay hike up to $70 an hour, which is what they say that three-axle local dump trucks are making.

Plum Creek officials, however, maintain that the rates it pays are determined by logging contractors, and not by the company itself.

Tom Ray, Plum Creek’s regional general manager, continued to dismiss the shutdown, telling the paper that his company has no intention of talking to the truckers and that many of the drivers involved in the initial protest have already gone back to work.

The truckers said some mill workers dropped by the protest site and said that Plum Creek’s mill in Kalispell could be out of logs by the end of the week. Ray denied this, claiming that log supplies were fine and he expected them to increase by the end of the week.