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Please tell me that Mike Moss rumor is true!

Yes, it is true. Terminal manager read us the usual " Left to pursue other interests" statement yesterday morning.

Apparently Mark McMinn will be the #2 man in the company. I know Mark. I have lot of respect for Mark McMinn. He always told me the truth, even when he didn't want to tell it and I didn't want to hear it. Mark has been with ABF for about 30 years...... up through the ranks.

Mark McMinn has a big mess to clean up...... A rolling Moss left stones strewn all across the place.........
 
on the bottom of board means waiting for phone to ring ,it may not ring for several days, will always work on the weekend and if you are not available to work on weekend ,you may not work at all. That being said ABF has excellent benefits and if you can hand in for a year or two it will be a great job.


We differ on the definition of “a great job.”
 
on the bottom of board means waiting for phone to ring ,it may not ring for several days, will always work on the weekend and if you are not available to work on weekend ,you may not work at all. That being said ABF has excellent benefits and if you can hand in for a year or two it will be a great job.

Haha yeah, they gave me that "on call for a couple years, then you'll get a bid" nonsense in Chicago. Five years on call (while temporarily holding two bids that were later cut) and I left for greener pastures. It's so weird to have a life again.
 
Haha yeah, they gave me that "on call for a couple years, then you'll get a bid" nonsense in Chicago. Five years on call (while temporarily holding two bids that were later cut) and I left for greener pastures. It's so weird to have a life again.
Years ago you could make ends meet with on call and missing some days and filling in a little at other places when you did miss a day, the jobs were worth it. That is not the case today, not even close.
 
Years ago you could make ends meet with on call and missing some days and filling in a little at other places when you did miss a day, the jobs were worth it. That is not the case today, not even close.
I guess I would say that I was well compensated for what I did, but the lifestyle was 85% ABF, 15% whatever I could wake up enough to do.

Yeah, I took a temporary paycut to come to my current company, but I have weekends off, and I've lost 50 pounds.
 
Yes, it is true. Terminal manager read us the usual " Left to pursue other interests" statement yesterday morning.

Apparently Mark McMinn will be the #2 man in the company. I know Mark. I have lot of respect for Mark McMinn. He always told me the truth, even when he didn't want to tell it and I didn't want to hear it. Mark has been with ABF for about 30 years...... up through the ranks.

Mark McMinn has a big mess to clean up...... A rolling Moss left stones strewn all across the place.........

I guess this would go under "I wonder why", but why didn't ABF put Mark in this position instead of hiring someone outside the company? ABF has supposedly had a promote from within policy for years. I have seen management & hourly employees hired from failed carriers & they always want to do everything the way it was done at their previous employer.
 
I guess this would go under "I wonder why", but why didn't ABF put Mark in this position instead of hiring someone outside the company? ABF has supposedly had a promote from within policy for years. I have seen management & hourly employees hired from failed carriers & they always want to do everything the way it was done at their previous employer.
It's the all new ABF, what Robert Young III did worked too well to just keep it going.
 
Not to compare apples to oranges, but my dad manages a steel hauling company. Freight has been rising and falling to such a degree so far this year, he can't hold on to the drivers he hires when volume is up.

Could just be a weird time, economically.
 
Yes, it is true. Terminal manager read us the usual " Left to pursue other interests" statement yesterday morning.

Apparently Mark McMinn will be the #2 man in the company. I know Mark. I have lot of respect for Mark McMinn. He always told me the truth, even when he didn't want to tell it and I didn't want to hear it. Mark has been with ABF for about 30 years...... up through the ranks.

Mark McMinn has a big mess to clean up...... A rolling Moss left stones strewn all across the place.........

The wording was much the same as Roy Slagle's "Retirement". They both got the boot. Good to see them gone. The company is better off with them not on the payroll.
 
To stack the deck with yes votes. Hiring standards at our barn have dropped to nothing. Can you spell "truck"? ..... hired. Our TM justifies it with potential retirements and UPacks. My guess is to get enough yes votes on the list to pass an even worse contract than the last one. Most of our new hires have never made $20 hr or had the benefits we do. They'll say yes to anything that was better than their previous job.

If you worked at a pizza shop for over 10 years, making and delivering pizza for $10 an hr and now you're making 60K with a pension and benefits, what will you say to a "little pay cut and some concessions"? Yes, that's an example of a guy we have. Hell of a nice guy, but how do you think he'll vote when the company uses its scare tactics and our union tells him this is the best contract you're gonna get....

JMHO
From the looks of the last vote with only about 14% returning ballots it doesnt seem how someone votes on something is gonna be a problem!
 
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