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Yellow | no more than 5 skids

If thats true at 5 skid minimum pickup for a Company that needs new business & new money then I think its safe to say The End is Near....
 
I thought the thread was about PUSHING no more than 5 skids on the dock. Must be a Roadway thing. We never did that at Yellow. CHOO CHOO............ GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!!!!!!! GOTTA FINISH MY TRAILER!!! BOSS HAS ANOTHER HOT ONE FOR ME !!!!!
 
A number of years ago they requested that we call in before picking up a certain number of skids. I believe the reason was that they wanted to check what pricing was in place for that customer first. Customers that did not produce a given number of skids on a routine basis were the ones they were most concerned with.
 
This is roadway code for linehaul drivers, not to pick up more then 5 ladies of the evening(lot lizards for you yes voters from rio linda)at the service area. An insurance thing ya know!

You out there BIG R?:biglaugh:
 
turboj said:
This is roadway code for linehaul drivers, not to pick up more then 5 ladies of the evening(lot lizards for you yes voters from rio linda)at the service area. An insurance thing ya know!

You out there BIG R?:biglaugh:
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this is bunk​

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freight janitor said:
has anybody been told dont pick up more than 5 skids, just wondering if this is a local thing or all over??:biggrin:
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Many years ago, mid 90's, that was the rule at yellow so city route drivers didn't fill before servicing many customers. Other volume drivers serviced the volume customers. Haven't heard of it being done for years.
 
freight janitor said:
has anybody been told dont pick up more than 5 skids, just wondering if this is a local thing or all over??:biggrin:
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Story Time

Pre merger, we had a customer that shipped 40- 50,000 lbs - 10 to 15 bills, 30 or more skids (all seperate billing to various USA locations $$) daily. During the merge and subsequent lay-offs we weren't servicing the customer and we lost the account to Con-Way.

Now Con-Way has shut down it's local terminal and they can't look after them so now we have a chance to get that account back. When this was brought to mgmnt's attention they sort of shrugged and said "we will see".

I went a little higher and discussed this with someone and they informed me that "their hands are tied" and there is a 'line in the sand drawn' and through retirements, deaths, whatever, they have to have the Unionized population down to a certain level, and that taking on large accounts, even though profitable, is not a priority at this time.

The company is indeed committed to 'shrinking to prosperity' which is code for reducing the full-time unionized workers to a certain level (60%) of the merge population) then outsourcing (non union temporary drivers) for any future overflow, which brings us down to 15 years being the 'junior man'.



Zollars: YRC On Road to Profit, May 19, 2009

Zollars: YRC On Road to Profit | Journal of Commerce



“Shrinking to prosperity has never worked in the LTL business, yet YRC is attempting to be the first to pull it off, wrote Ross. “ We do not know whether the company will still be operating as it is today or operating in a different/smaller form.”
 
Renscout said:
OKC/531 we have 2 drives 1600-mid do nothing but swap trailer loads from customers. No limit here.
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Kinda like that, only these were drivers who ran many loads per day. The route drivers ran 1 route with 1 trailer all day long, 15-40 deliveries and 5 to 12 pickups. If the route driver filled too soon he wouldn't have enough time to make another run and would be done before the end of his shift. It wasn't just afternoon drivers that ran the volumes, there were early drivers and drivers on 10 hour shifts also.
 
stpinindy said:
Kinda like that, only these were drivers who ran many loads per day. The route drivers ran 1 route with 1 trailer all day long, 15-40 deliveries and 5 to 12 pickups. If the route driver filled too soon he wouldn't have enough time to make another run and would be done before the end of his shift. It wasn't just afternoon drivers that ran the volumes, there were early drivers and drivers on 10 hour shifts also.
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If you have drivers who do 15-40 deliveries and 5 to 12 pick ups you must have some small seniority list over there!! Come on!!
 
ROADY said:
If you have drivers who do 15-40 deliveries and 5 to 12 pick ups you must have some small seniority list over there!! Come on!!
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I wondered if anyone would call him on those figures. I don't think I have ever done more than 24 deliveries in freight. Even as a package driver with a 70mi route I topped out at 130 stops (and I was the top guy)
 
SCRABBLE said:
I thought the thread was about PUSHING no more than 5 skids on the dock. Must be a Roadway thing. We never did that at Yellow. CHOO CHOO............ GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!!!!!!! GOTTA FINISH MY TRAILER!!! BOSS HAS ANOTHER HOT ONE FOR ME !!!!!
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haha sounds like the heros and saviors at holland at night.
 
ROADY said:
If you have drivers who do 15-40 deliveries and 5 to 12 pick ups you must have some small seniority list over there!! Come on!!
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Roadway in Eagan MN, the straight truck driver that ran Edina and Bloomington in the late 80's wanted 40 deliveries on his truck every day so he wasn't expected to drive a tractor trailer. Often he might have several for southdale mall and would deliver all at once. Making several deliveries within a block. I couldn't if I wanted to but YES he did on a regular basis. The list wasn't small, the run(most runs if possible) was compact. What a wild idea making money by combining shipments instead of playing numbers with stock and debt.
 
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