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Was checking out our company employee website the other day and came across a featured transcript of our LTL's first 'Your Voice is Heard' podcast that was conducted on 05 October,2016.There was some really informative stuff concerning what's going on w/ XPO LTL. For example: insurance, ss beam safety & maintenance, re-branding status, pay scales for different regions, PTO status, etc.
Check it out. They said that they will continue to do these podcasts if there is justifiable responses from us. Soooooooooo... if you want your voice to be heard...then get engaged.
 
vetran peddleman said:
Was checking out our company employee website the other day and came across a featured transcript of our LTL's first 'Your Voice is Heard' podcast that was conducted on 05 October,2016.There was some really informative stuff concerning what's going on w/ XPO LTL. For example: insurance, ss beam safety & maintenance, re-branding status, pay scales for different regions, PTO status, etc.
Check it out. They said that they will continue to do these podcasts if there is justifiable responses from us. Soooooooooo... if you want your voice to be heard...then get engaged.
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Are these things we want and need or things they have already decided on?
 
I have become extremely disengaged as of late. I spend enough of my time at work as it is so at this point I won't spend one spare second of my own time.
 
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Sounds like they still have a lot of Con-way brass still in place . I heard a lot of names of people I knew .They didn't clean it out enough in my opinion.
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Yeah I agree TF...but xpo didn't know anything about running an LTL when they bought us out last year. And that's probably the reason why they kept most of these guys on. Consequently, the xpo brass has had to depend on the old guard Conway brass to run the company.
 
vetran peddleman said:
Yeah I agree TF...but xpo didn't know anything about running an LTL when they bought us out last year. And that's probably the reason why they kept most of these guys on. Consequently, the xpo brass has had to depend on the old guard Conway brass to run the company.
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We'll see how long that lasts. Right now they are still essentially running XPO LTL as it's own separate segment. As they both, further integrate XPO as a hole, as well as alter XPO LTL to handle economy freight, there may be more corporate consolidation. All up in the air. They have told us over and over. Closer you are to the freight the safer you are. I believe them.
 
Management gave the impression that more podcasts ( communication ) was based on feedback and demand. We are near the end of the month ( when they did the previous podcast ) and so far , nothing.

How could there be demand for something most employees never heard of?

My local management actively tries to prevent communication between the drivers and executive level management. If something like this podcast caught on , I believe management up and down the chain would be horrified.

Low level management doesn't want to be exposed and executive level management doesn't want to hear the truth and have to act.
 
As we begin November there is no evidence of a new podcast for LTL. Another avenue of communication shut down.

To put this in perspective , the truckload division which was sold a few days ago had several podcasts and even had a new one available right before they were sold.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist , but I will say it seems deliberate , like a plan or strategy to limit the amount and type of communication between the drivers specifically and upper management executves.

It would be nice to have a reliable , high quality source of information and a forum for questions and answers that was endorsed by XPO executives.

By being secretive and avoiding the bulk of people that work at XPO , executives invite distrust , low morale , and rumors. People want to information when it comes to how they earn a living , and when they are worried or afraid ( especially when it's reasonable to assume more changes are coming )

- How hard is it to communicate with your employees , and make yourselves available for questions and answers?
 
icuicp said:
As we begin November there is no evidence of a new podcast for LTL. Another avenue of communication shut down.

To put this in perspective , the truckload division which was sold a few days ago had several podcasts and even had a new one available right before they were sold.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist , but I will say it seems deliberate , like a plan or strategy to limit the amount and type of communication between the drivers specifically and upper management executves.

It would be nice to have a reliable , high quality source of information and a forum for questions and answers that was endorsed by XPO executives.

By being secretive and avoiding the bulk of people that work at XPO , executives invite distrust , low morale , and rumors. People want to information when it comes to how they earn a living , and when they are worried or afraid ( especially when it's reasonable to assume more changes are coming )

- How hard is it to communicate with your employees , and make yourselves available for questions and answers?
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300 percent agree. It's become an information is on a need to know basis, and you don't need to know kind of thing. Even the tm's are in the dark. The new president should be in tom Clancy's next novel, he's totally covert and black ops. Where's Waldo?
 
If there was more than 5 of us Con-way/XPO LTL drivers, dockworkers, and/or supervisors all in one place we could probably get access to someone higher up.

What about that Facebook page thing? Anyone ever ask how to contact Jacobs, Tony, or anyone like that?

Send them an email with questions that were collaborated from fellow drivers, dockworkers, and supervisors. They don't respond? Tell the news! Various trucking websites and such and leverage them.
 
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