XPO | Slipping bars

It must be a per barn thing. At my barn we have Shrink wrap, shovels brooms, tape, and trash cans between every other door. we also have dock hooks at every door and on every forklift and every door has a safe stack bar at it. That is one of the items the dockworks must do every day is check the supplies on the dock.
Take a little pride in where you work.
It sound like the docks are like truck drivers. You have the ones that have all kinds of :::shit::: piled on the dash and other spend a little of there own time to keep it clean.
Glad to hear some places are keeping up with things. We have a new TM at my place. He is doing what he can to turn peoples attitude around. It will be a long, uphill battle. I’ll give him credit for trying.
 
It must be a per barn thing. At my barn we have Shrink wrap, shovels brooms, tape, and trash cans between every other door. we also have dock hooks at every door and on every forklift and every door has a safe stack bar at it. That is one of the items the dockworks must do every day is check the supplies on the dock.
Take a little pride in where you work.
It sound like the docks are like truck drivers. You have the ones that have all kinds of :::shit::: piled on the dash and other spend a little of there own time to keep it clean.


Where is your TM getting the money for all of this ?
 
Glad to hear some places are keeping up with things. We have a new TM at my place. He is doing what he can to turn peoples attitude around. It will be a long, uphill battle. I’ll give him credit for trying.

We all got reasons for being here. What reason do we have to see a better future at XPO ?
 
Sounds like a fishing expedition
We had meetings back in 2015 . We were told it was a new way company was going to do the employee survey. Yeah right... it was conducted by a company called Cruz and associates ( persuaders) They were on a fishing expedition. Now I’m not saying this is what is going on at your place but you have to keep your eyes open. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I guess it all depends on ones perspective. To me, it’s the company wanting to do better. They asked, we answered and now they’re addressing some of those issues.
It was the regional HR rep.
 
So in a round-a-bout way we are expected to do our jobs???? Well :::shit::: imaging that.
The whole damm thing will fall apart now with them expecting employees to do what they are paid to do.
Yes. As an added bonus, hopefully we won’t be told to ignore parts of our jobs in order to make sure we get the docks closed down by a certain time.
The audits will be reviewed and FOS and TMs are supposed to be held accountable for too many fail audits.
 
Come on, be real! Flavor of the day. No money to pay people to keep this up, never mind that yeah, you won’t have too many pups to load where all safestack is functional. Shrink wrap and shovels and brooms at every door? Maybe at some, but not many. Managers don’t want to spend the money. On anything.
At our barn, there are times in the day when dock workers are waiting on freight to get back. They will use that time to get things started. Once running, it’s on the FOS to make sure things are stocked. If a door is missing shrink wrap, the FOS should get a roll from the sector stand and replace it.
 
It must be a per barn thing. At my barn we have Shrink wrap, shovels brooms, tape, and trash cans between every other door. we also have dock hooks at every door and on every forklift and every door has a safe stack bar at it. That is one of the items the dockworks must do every day is check the supplies on the dock.
Take a little pride in where you work.
It sound like the docks are like truck drivers. You have the ones that have all kinds of :::shit::: piled on the dash and other spend a little of there own time to keep it clean.
Maybe the program has already rolled out a your barn?
I wish people took pride in their job.
 
It’s similar to lean because it’s an organized work space. It’s nothing like lean because there’s not layer after layer of waste.
That period was so frustrating for me and others. The TM at the time had all the brown noses running around for a couple years doing all but their core job of driving. We went short on drivers every day while those guys ran around painting Lines, and labeling everything. Customer service suffered and we had to pick up the slack . In the end the 3 City drivers who never went out on runs .. just stayed in painting and labeling earned over 80 k + each and got a free lunch everyday. What a crock. Lean accomplished nothing !!! We said when it was implemented it wouldn’t last a year . We were wrong it unfortunately lasted 2 before Xpo pulled the plug on it. Gotta give Jacobs the credit for that.
 
There won’t be a good trailer in the door anywhere. When will they hire the mechanics to fix all these trailers ? And when will they send the bars and tools for us to replace the ones that we can ?
The tools and parts are all supposed to be on hand for the dock workers and drivers to fix the bars.
I’m not sure if the mechanics will be doing anything differently.
 
At our barn, there are times in the day when dock workers are waiting on freight to get back. They will use that time to get things started. Once running, it’s on the FOS to make sure things are stocked. If a door is missing shrink wrap, the FOS should get a roll from the sector stand and replace it.
That sounds great but they can’t buy tape and shrink at our place because of budget restraints.
 
Core jobs. I see people posting about drivers doing things besides driving. FOS's doing things besides supervising.

Once you get too far from what you were originally supposed to be doing things get stupid.

I have no problem staying in my lane - LITERALLY!!! Even though you can get a driver to do it , do you want a driver taking an hour+ to replace a mudflap or let a mechanic do it in 10min tops?

For example even though the title says Driver Sales Representative , it is highly , HIGHLY frowned upon to talk about pricing in any form or fashion to the customers. Let the AE's , TM's , and othe alphabet soup people handle it.

As far as that goes , most of the drivers I know would be thrilled to let the support staff do their job so that drivers could spend MORE time doing their CORE JOB. Driving.

P.S. - for the wiseguy that says you can't just drive , I get that. The point being , the more things you give drivers or FOS's or anyone to focus on outside of their main job the less chance of them being good at anything. "Jack of all trades , master of none..." ring a bell?
 
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Core jobs. I see people posting about drivers doing things besides driving. FOS's doing things besides supervising.

Once you get too far from what you were originally supposed to be doing things get stupid.

I have no problem staying in my lane - LITERALLY!!! Even though you can get a driver to do it , do you want a driver taking an hour+ to replace a mudflap or let a mechanic do it in 10min tops?

For example even though the title says Driver Sales Representative , it is highly , HIGHLY frowned upon to talk about pricing in any form or fashion to the customers. Let the AE's , TM's , and othe alphabet soup people handle it.

As far as that goes , most of the drivers I know would be thrilled to let the support staff do their job so that drivers could spend MORE time doing their CORE JOB. Driving.

P.S. - for the wiseguy that says you can't just drive , I get that. The point being , the more things you give drivers or FOS's or anyone to focus on outside of their main job the less chance of them being good at anything. "Jack of all trades , master of none..." ring a bell?
Spot on Sir.
A whole other issue and subject we could spend time on.
 
That sounds great but they can’t buy tape and shrink at our place because of budget restraints.
I bet it is up to each TM as far as ordering stuff. Any money they don’t spend helps their bottom line. I’m talking shrink wrap, safestack parts (and we have all that stuff, but many don’t), hot dogs, even staff. We had a FOS quit a couple months ago. His replacement lasted three weeks. I was told he will not be replaced. Do more with less. For what they get paid, it’s not worth it.
 
I think lean has some usefulness in manufacturing facilities but in trucking it’s a hard argument to see its value
 
Core jobs. I see people posting about drivers doing things besides driving. FOS's doing things besides supervising.

Once you get too far from what you were originally supposed to be doing things get stupid.

I have no problem staying in my lane - LITERALLY!!! Even though you can get a driver to do it , do you want a driver taking an hour+ to replace a mudflap or let a mechanic do it in 10min tops?

For example even though the title says Driver Sales Representative , it is highly , HIGHLY frowned upon to talk about pricing in any form or fashion to the customers. Let the AE's , TM's , and othe alphabet soup people handle it.

As far as that goes , most of the drivers I know would be thrilled to let the support staff do their job so that drivers could spend MORE time doing their CORE JOB. Driving.

P.S. - for the wiseguy that says you can't just drive , I get that. The point being , the more things you give drivers or FOS's or anyone to focus on outside of their main job the less chance of them being good at anything. "Jack of all trades , master of none..." ring a bell?
I think your right on the mark with this and I have been saying the same for years. There never seems to be a shortage of drivers that feel the need to pick up on responsibilities that should be part of managements duties. It does cause confusion when drivers are involved and privy to information and procedures that should only be handled by management. Concerns that are personal and involve disciplinary nature should be confidential.
Management has awareness of policy and practices ethics ( or their suppose to) that should be followed. When a driver is involved let’s say for example: drivecame viewing and coaching events they are note trained or aware of confidentiality practices.
When you take a driver from his or her core responsibility you diminish the driver pool and not only do his or her coworkers have to jump in to fill the void our customers also suffer in lack of service.
Obviously this did not start with Xpo . I think it serves to purposes allows the company to run with fewer management employees and yes it does blur the lines by design between management and drivers.
 
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Where is your TM getting the money for all of this ?
Maybe he knows how to budget what the company gives him. We also are provided plastic spoons, forks, and knives along with bowel and plates. He also buy those Lysol disinfecting wipes for the trucks, window cleaner, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, and soup for those really cold day. He gets all that and we still get a bonus every year. Right now we are on 129% for this year. Thought we did cut back and don't have Hotdogs or popcorn ever Friday
 
That period was so frustrating for me and others. The TM at the time had all the brown noses running around for a couple years doing all but their core job of driving. We went short on drivers every day while those guys ran around painting Lines, and labeling everything. Customer service suffered and we had to pick up the slack . In the end the 3 City drivers who never went out on runs .. just stayed in painting and labeling earned over 80 k + each and got a free lunch everyday. What a crock. Lean accomplished nothing !!! We said when it was implemented it wouldn’t last a year . We were wrong it unfortunately lasted 2 before Xpo pulled the plug on it. Gotta give Jacobs the credit for that.
That what you get when Paul Burgs office was at your barn.
This is a prime example of how Jacob's cut our OR out of the 90's. From what I heard the Lean Team at HQ had a sit down and explained what lean was and what they did. The a few days latter the program was cut and I think some were let go. I said from the beginning this was a big waste of time and money. There were many barn like your that paid guy OT just to walk around paint and score and push a trash can into a circle. I have been to the barns that were doing this and laugh. The funniest one was when I saw the FOS desk on the dock have little squares on it for the mouse, stapler, keyboard, and monitor.
I do remember how big of a deal when one of the barn in NJ got the bronze level award for simply putting items in a painted circle AKA putting it back were it belongs.
 
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Core jobs. I see people posting about drivers doing things besides driving. FOS's doing things besides supervising.

Once you get too far from what you were originally supposed to be doing things get stupid.

I have no problem staying in my lane - LITERALLY!!! Even though you can get a driver to do it , do you want a driver taking an hour+ to replace a mudflap or let a mechanic do it in 10min tops?

For example even though the title says Driver Sales Representative , it is highly , HIGHLY frowned upon to talk about pricing in any form or fashion to the customers. Let the AE's , TM's , and othe alphabet soup people handle it.

As far as that goes , most of the drivers I know would be thrilled to let the support staff do their job so that drivers could spend MORE time doing their CORE JOB. Driving.

P.S. - for the wiseguy that says you can't just drive , I get that. The point being , the more things you give drivers or FOS's or anyone to focus on outside of their main job the less chance of them being good at anything. "Jack of all trades , master of none..." ring a bell?
It would be nice to have a mechanic on site every day, but sometime we have to do it to get the job done. The have never ask me to service a truck but fix a light, fuel filter, and even a mud flap is not that far outside of our job.

I have to ask because I just found mine. I was cleaning out a drawer and found those waste of money business card Con-way had printed up for every driver. when I found them all I could think of what a big waste of money and throw them in the trash
 
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