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silent trucker

silent trucker

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Drivers,
if any of you read the routing on your trip sheet and see obvious errors, please bring this to the attention of your Service Center Manager so he can inform the appropriate folks. The other night, had a fill in driver get lost, because the routing for his leg from origin to turn point had a typographical error. He was "geographically challenged" <<<euphemism for dumber than a box of rocks, and was late because he didn't know where to go.

So please, read the highway routing and if it's wrong, let someone know.

ST
 
Had an extraboard driver lose over an hour because he went to the assigned meet point. However, the meet drivers for both centers decided to meet and switch across the road where there was more room and the food was better. Good learning point for me as I checked all meet points after that. Was super hard to convince TT at central to change it as it was not his idea.
 
CaptainKirk said:
Had an extraboard driver lose over an hour because he went to the assigned meet point. However, the meet drivers for both centers decided to meet and switch across the road where there was more room and the food was better. Good learning point for me as I checked all meet points after that. Was super hard to convince TT at central to change it as it was not his idea.
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I called TT once after flood waters closed I-29 from Fargo. Someone walked in front of my truck at the Flying J in Sioux Falls, SD and it was running so the VORAD beeped. He read me the riot act about talking while driving, even though I was parked to keep the A/C running. Hung up on him and called my local management.

roog
 
CaptainKirk said:
Had an extraboard driver lose over an hour because he went to the assigned meet point. However, the meet drivers for both centers decided to meet and switch across the road where there was more room and the food was better. Good learning point for me as I checked all meet points after that. Was super hard to convince TT at central to change it as it was not his idea.
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TT doesn't want to hear about any new ideas unless he came up with them!!!!
 
TT couldn't believe that his shortest distance route from SAC to EKA took 10 more gallons of fuel than going the alternate route which is 18 miles farther but is freeway and flat ground. The designated route has four 7% grades and a 30 mile stretch around Clear Lake where you can only go 35mph. But it's shorter so it's better, right?
 
I did tell my manager three years ago, the sheet still reads the same. I know, you all that that it would have been fixed. Silly driver!
 
Richard Cranium said:
TT couldn't believe that his shortest distance route from SAC to EKA took 10 more gallons of fuel than going the alternate route which is 18 miles farther but is freeway and flat ground. The designated route has four 7% grades and a 30 mile stretch around Clear Lake where you can only go 35mph. But it's shorter so it's better, right?
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all that schooling and they still can't fix stupid
 
Now back to the original point, to speak to someone regarding a routing error presumes that the rest of us are actively engaged employees.
Now that's some funny stuff.
 
Richard Cranium said:
TT couldn't believe that his shortest distance route from SAC to EKA took 10 more gallons of fuel than going the alternate route which is 18 miles farther but is freeway and flat ground. The designated route has four 7% grades and a 30 mile stretch around Clear Lake where you can only go 35mph. But it's shorter so it's better, right?
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well that would be 18 more miles they would have to pay a driver..come on RC.
 
Richard Cranium said:
Now back to the original point, to speak to someone regarding a routing error presumes that the rest of us are actively engaged employees.
Now that's some funny stuff.
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Yeah, that's asking way too much of the employees. Amazing how some folks claimed to care, yet prove at every opportunity that they don't.
 
There's only one thing I care about.
They stay in business long enough for me to retire.
They are too pompously ignorant to listen to their employees that have valid cost saving suggestions (to implement these suggestions would be admitting they screwed up).
 
RC, I won't argue they're arrogance...it's certainly legendary on some issues...yet there are many drivers I know who claim they were choir boys at Viking and the only reason they're not at FedEx is because they're disenfranchised. Truth is they were never choir boys. They were horrible employees their entire career...they robbed the company blind and cared only about themselves. All the while claiming to be "true blue".

What a joke...
 
Richard Cranium said:
And I can show you just as many choirboys that never took a penny they didn't earn that are just sick at what this place has become.
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Quick couple of questions here RC:

1) did you really think we could go from being a small western carrier to the largest in the US, and still maintain the personal touch Viking was famous for?

2) Is it a coincidence that the two largest LTL carriers use exactly the same business model?

3) Is it a further coincidence that of the top 10 ltl's, the ones that have continued to turn a profit, have all adopted some variation of that same business model?

4) Let's go for the jackpot: The only two of the top ten that have stuck to the beloved Viking business model, have implemented paycuts to survive, is this yet another coincidence?

Perhaps its time to accept the reality that the Viking business model, which dates back prior to the NMFA (early sixties) has become a dinosaur. Was it way more fun to work in? Heck yes! Is it on it's way out? Yes again.

How long Rail and PT will remain viable is anybody's guess. Perhaps with time, the old model will come full circle. You and I will both be retired by then.

ST
 
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RC, delusional would be, being happy with this business model. Don't know a driver who worked under the old model who is happy with the current one. That being said, most of us grin and bear it. We go to work, do the job and go home. Then there's the "Viking" folks who throw temper tantrums all day long, screaming and yelling about all things fedex.

I can't change the business model. You can't change the business model. We can either work within it till we're able to walk away, or we can beat our heads against the wall till we're bloody and we can't stand up straight. Or we can walk away now. All the whining in the world won't change this reality.

That's what it is.

ST
 
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