R&L | TEAMS

I have seen ads for company teams, looks like we may be getting back to the old R+L YEH!

hahahahahhahahhaaaa , back to the old R&L ain't happinin' pal! you must have bumped ypur head somewhere.

I have to agree with LostShepard. Dont hold your breath waiting on the "old" R+L. It isnt going to happen. We cant even get good P&D guys anymore. We had three hired last week. After one day of training, all three quit. They have ruined their reputation among drivers.... They put up a notice in our drivers room about a sign-on bonus. If you refer a driver that is hired and last past his 90 "working" days then you get a $500 bonus.. Now what do I use to sell this company to another driver?... 0 sick days= fail .. no matching contribution to 401k= fail.. no profit sharing= fail... Q: "whats the starting pay".... A: "I dont know it's different for every guy coming though the door" = FAIL
You get the point. There is nothing to entice a driver to come work here.....sad, but true.

we were a company team for 10 1/2 years.the first 8 were great. then things started changing.it got so bad we left at the first of the year.could not stand anymore sitting, watching loads go out on o/o's,or outside carriers, then getting a line houl run of 200 miles, or sitting broken down for hours because of the junky ass sleeper tractors were had to drive, of gettin a day or day and a half instead of our 48 hours off, because someone screwed up and missed a load. i would advise anyone looking to run team for rl to not do it unless the company goes back to company teams and does away with the o/o's .in fact, instead of running team, run as hard as you can away.and it pains me to say this, because for the first part of our 10 years, i loved working here.i did have the option of staying and running linehaul, but they are treated worse than teams. no thanks.

Well,I can tell you that today my TM put up a memo for internal hiring for a team out of out terminal.I was very surprised and told him as much.Problem is its for internal hiring only so if no one wants to be out 5 days it won't get filled.

i hope the best for any new teams.if it goes back like it was several years ago, it will be ok.as i said, we were waiting at terminals for up to 7 hours for a load, sometimes only going a few hundred miles. other problem, they need b etter team tractors.they cant expect teams to sit in shop and not get paid, and lose miles. or sit on the side of the road freezing, or burning up with a down tractor; waiting for the wrecker. been there, done that too. a lot of things need to be fixed for teams before its once again a good job.

i forgot, if its not asking too much, what terminal, or area are you at.thanks

HTF. Thats Hartford Ct. Northeast region.

well, thats something different. hope they dont do them like before, back and forth from ne to hubbard, oh all week.sort of boring, and at the same time hectic on i80

Back when I worked in Central Dispatch, I about had a dispatcher in tears one night. A team hit the Quaalcom with an arrival message at his terminal (in NJ, I think...I think his name was Lenny). The dispatcher called me to suggest (tell, not ask) that he could send the team somewhere with a load. I asked how long would it take to get the load ready. The reply was 4 to 5 hours so I told him that if I did not see a gate departure on the Quaalcom within 2 hours, he needed to cut them loose back toward WIL with empties. At the 1:45 mark, I called to let him know time was ticking and he lost his temper, yelling that if he had more time he could send them loaded. I calmly told him that in 16 minutes, I would dispatch them myself if he would not (I had told the team to scout empties when they got there, just in case). A little after the deadline, I got their gate departure and the team called (laughing) to say that I had just made an enemy. The way I look at it is this: if a terminal could not get a load together in a reasonable amount of time (2 hours max...barring unusual circumstances), Central could use the team somewhere else. I felt bad for most of the teams while I was there. I saw a lot teams delayed for no reason, causing service failures. I hope you guys all get working again, making money and rolling miles.

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Back when I worked in Central Dispatch, I about had a dispatcher in tears one night. A team hit the Quaalcom with an arrival message at his terminal (in NJ, I think...I think his name was Lenny). The dispatcher called me to suggest (tell, not ask) that he could send the team somewhere with a load. I asked how long would it take to get the load ready. The reply was 4 to 5 hours so I told him that if I did not see a gate departure on the Quaalcom within 2 hours, he needed to cut them loose back toward WIL with empties. At the 1:45 mark, I called to let him know time was ticking and he lost his temper, yelling that if he had more time he could send them loaded. I calmly told him that in 16 minutes, I would dispatch them myself if he would not (I had told the team to scout empties when they got there, just in case). A little after the deadline, I got their gate departure and the team called (laughing) to say that I had just made an enemy. The way I look at it is this: if a terminal could not get a load together in a reasonable amount of time (2 hours max...barring unusual circumstances), Central could use the team somewhere else. I felt bad for most of the teams while I was there. I saw a lot teams delayed for no reason, causing service failures. I hope you guys all get working again, making money and rolling miles.
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Will never happen till all management is replaced from top to bottom. R@L needs to get back to its old school roots, till than good luck to all. :hissy: :buttkisser:

Hopeful sign, 4 Team runs posted at my terminal. New team runs too, in addition to our existing teams.

Also, was seeing Paramount O/O on the yard all the time. But lately have only seen a few,
and I'm seeing more and more company teams on the yard........