Was Roadway's empowerment program ever introduced to your terminal? From around 2005 until the merger we Teamsters at Roadway Albuquerque worked the inbound and outbound shifts without management supervision. When we would bid starting times, one bid for the inbound shift and one bid for the outbound shift would be a Teamster who would stay in the office and work the computer and come up with a plan. It wasn't Teamsters telling Teamsters what to do. It was Teamsters working together without a supervisor.
Yes. But no one worked the computers. A super did. Former Teamster. But he stayed in the background.
I'll say one thing about that time.
It worked.
The drivers were ready in the morning. Most were hooked. And just left.
All the loads were loaded accordingly.
It was a good time to work. No bitchin. No complaining.
We knew the routes. All of them.
Now as for outbound. They just said make your own decisions.
And they. We. Did. That worked well to.
Omgoodness what a difference it is now.
You just depressed me. Lol.
We had problems of course. But no where near like now.
And your right. It wasn't anyone telling anyone what to do.
We all knew what to do without being told.
That's what grown men ought to be able to do.
Roadway was a good company to work for.
If someone asked me I would tell them who I worked for.
Not now. Just a freight company I say.
Most of that time I was on the inbound shift.
We only had five guys. And we got it done. No sweat. 4 guys unloading and staging. One guy loading the routes the way they were supposed to be.
It takes 10 here to do the same work and it's all messed up. Maybe eight guys. Never counted.