After reading all these post you all forgot about one thing Tractor assignments. I see the cry me a river when a drivers tractor is not their, broke down or a city driver get tied up on the street. I have see drive come in our yard from another barn saying and I quote "I here to get MY tractor".
Now having been a driver for some 25yrs having an assigned truck is one of big thing to a driver. They keep it clean and they are better maintained, but we need to face the facts. XPO is all about the numbers we see that more and more everyday.
Now to my point.
Monday you leave in a the 2015 freightliner you have been driving all year. After a long night you get to you laydown terminal and they call a cab to take you the hotel. That terminal will now use your truck for the city operation. The FOS call you back in after 10-12hrs and has loads for you to take only one problem the truck you came in with is not back from the city run. The FOS give you a gleaming pile of
sterling to run you next 400 mile run in. There is no waiting for the truck to get back you have a gate time to make. Remember it about the numbers. You left stuff in the truck well to bad, you might get it back. The FOS got to make his numbers and you got a gate time to make.
When you get that 2015 freightliner you took time and energy to clean and maintain back, it's now trashed, grease everywhere, and stuff broken. I know truck are sometimes sent to a different barn but from what I have seen they do there best to keep the truck and or get them back to there original assign barns.
XPO is all about the numbers if we go to a layover line haul op. get ready to slip seat a lot. You wont be taking you truck to the hotel like OD, ABF, and Estes do. XPO runs a tight ship we are all seeing them cut equipment and running as little equipment as needed. We all know that have been doing this for years will bit XPO in the ass one day and I'll be the first one to say I told you so.