XPO | Linehaul?

Whew!! Sounds like YRC all the time,H....

Last time I applied at YRC, all they had available at the ABQ terminal were team positions that ran all the way out to the west coast and back. Haven't been or lived in CA or any of the Pacific coast states in five years after moving away from there. Not too eager to return to that mess.
 
Guess I'll bug them tomorrow. I was also going to check back with Estes and Core-Mark back over in Albuquerque after speaking to them last week. Worse comes to worst, I might just see about doing the regional hauls with where I'm at right now until I get caught up on bills. The $800/mo pickup payment I ended up in due to a mix of errors isn't really helping things out much either.
Get those out of the way and then I could focus on going back to the "bare minimum".
Coremark is like real work. LTL city work is alot easier than that, typically.
 
Previous manager changed bids to cater to threats of bottom people " if I have to go to linehaul , I will quit" - Magically , there was an extra city bid.


Can't make numbers without bodies. Some weird decisions being made that would have never flown at the old Con-job.
 
Man, the things people will complain about while they're still taking in a paycheck. Give me a consistent assignment that will make me a decent amount of money each week and I stay shut up.
Pay's been getting real dismal at the tanker outfit I'm at right now. The latest gossip trend on the Indian River front is that the terminal is trying to do away with shuttlers and have all the work spread out between the dairy loaders and the regional/long-haul people with sleeper cabs. Either do strictly one of those two things or leave, it seems.


" outsourcing " " sub vans " " sub service " you see that all over this board and throughout it's threads. They all mean exactly what you are talking about there. Doing it cheaper with someone that will do it cheaper every time you can. That is effecting us all. It's no different here than where you are as far as that goes.
 
Guess I'll bug them tomorrow. I was also going to check back with Estes and Core-Mark back over in Albuquerque after speaking to them last week. Worse comes to worst, I might just see about doing the regional hauls with where I'm at right now until I get caught up on bills. The $800/mo pickup payment I ended up in due to a mix of errors isn't really helping things out much either.
Get those out of the way and then I could focus on going back to the "bare minimum".


I thought Estes was privately held. Complete opposite of the mega-conglomerate that this is.
 
OK how about this we hire for either P&D or LH not just a driver that can be bounched around from days to nights. Now when a LH driver bids into the city he is at the bottom of the city board seniority list for the first year. Then next year when he bids city again then he falls into his correct seniority position and vice versa. Thus will stop the flip flopping from year to year and also if someone wants to switch they will deal with one year at the bottom.

That's what we do at OD except we take it one step further, if you jump boards you go to the bottom and you gain seniority from there. But our city is only bid by route. If you have enough seniority to bid whatever route is available, it is yours and it generally comes with it's particular start time. Then you stay in the same area every day. Volume drivers don't have a route, most do just that, run volume loads, but they do bring them in to cover vacation/call out peddle runs too.
 
OK how about this we hire for either P&D or LH not just a driver that can be bounched around from days to nights. Now when a LH driver bids into the city he is at the bottom of the city board seniority list for the first year. Then next year when he bids city again then he falls into his correct seniority position and vice versa. Thus will stop the flip flopping from year to year and also if someone wants to switch they will deal with one year at the bottom.
I AGREE that's why I am leaving because, I wanted to do line haul an they put me in the city. They need a bid system like other LTL.
 
Well, Estes P/D in Albuquerque picked somebody else and the Estes linehaul in Phoenix told me I needed two years of hauling doubles elsewhere before I could get on over there for a linehaul position. At the same time though, they told me to that I could try for a P/D position instead and then work up the doubles experience that way.
 
The bottom line is that right now you can get a job any where. If they think they can force you to do something, they are wrong. We have had plenty of people quit over the silliest :::shit:::. The new guys have zero respect for this place. The old guys have zero respect for this place. It's what most of our posts here are really all about. No one cares. There is no accountability. And it doesn't matter.

I am glad I am not at your terminal. Here at mine the long time drivers respect their job and do it well. We try to teach the new guys this is a good company to work for and to do a good job. Here at this terminal we care. There is accountability and we know this is a good job to keep.
 
I am glad I am not at your terminal. Here at mine the long time drivers respect their job and do it well. We try to teach the new guys this is a good company to work for and to do a good job. Here at this terminal we care. There is accountability and we know this is a good job to keep.


I wish more terminals were like yours.
 
OK how about this we hire for either P&D or LH not just a driver that can be bounched around from days to nights. Now when a LH driver bids into the city he is at the bottom of the city board seniority list for the first year. Then next year when he bids city again then he falls into his correct seniority position and vice versa. Thus will stop the flip flopping from year to year and also if someone wants to switch they will deal with one year at the bottom.
How bout, hell no!!!!!!!!
 
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