What we as Vitran employees need to do is not listen to all the crazy talk that is going around. We need to pick up business in any way that we can in order to prove that we are a worthy company and a value to the new owner. If we can do this, then it will change for our benefit. We can all grow business in some way from our position. Whether it is getting the bills processed correctly with minimal mistakes so we can get all the money due, upselling our services, making timely deliveries when they are supposed to be there and stop excuses for not making it, loading our loads to capacity and making more direct loads that can deliver more timely, and the list goes on. We need to get some pride in who we are as a company and stop sitting back and letting this bring us to the point of being on edge and not caring what happens. If we are going out then let's at least go out knowing there was absolutely nothing else we could have done to save what we have. Nobody likes to work. That is what it is called work and they have to pay us to do it. If we all do our jobs to the best of our abilities then we only have ourselves to blame for failures. I love my job and don't want to be unemployed any more than the next person so I am going to step up and do as much as i can and learn as much as i can about other things going on around me so i can be better than I was when i joined the Vitran team.
All this has done nothing to help the spirit of things around Vitran and that is the biggest hurdle we as a company face. We need to take more pride in who we are and what we are doing and maybe things will turn around on their own with our help. It's worth a shot at keeping our jobs and our company!! I know there are many out there that will not agree with me and chose to take the negative side. If you do, that is on you. As long as I know I am doing all I can in my job, then if we go out, I will walk away proud of the person I am and the job I done to attempt to make a change in who we are and how we are perceived as a business. I saw we stop chasing greatness and just make it happen for God's sake!!!