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A Vitran/Central city driver, with 25 yrs. with Pjax/Vitran/Central and a spotless driving record and only missed maybe 1 day a year due to illness, was laid off yesterday from the Dunbar, WV terminal. He had the most senority of ALL the drivers there and made $21.55 an hour. They skipped 10 drivers to get to him. The layoff came in an email from Michigan, not the terminal manager. 2 other drivers were laid off too.

They merged the Vitran terminal in the much smaller Central terminal the week before Thanksgiving. In the firing process so far, Vitran employess - 3 line haul drivers quit, 3 office people were laid off when they merged. Since the end of November, they fired 1 Vitran line haul driver, laid off 5 Vitran city drivers in the first round, then 3 Vitran office people in the second round, then 3 more city drivers - 2 Vitran and 1 Central, in the third round. Out of 24 Vitran people, only 6 city drivers and 1 office person and 1 line haul driver are left. As for Central people, they laid off 1 driver.

They lost almost every Vitran account in this area due to customers finding out that Central bought Vitran out, they refused to let Central haul their freight and gave it to other trucking companies. The dispatcher for this terminal is in Michigan and probably has never been to this area, which creates the most havoc. When you need to get a hold of someone the company for hot issues the driver and the manager have to call and leave a message or send an email, which may not be answered for hours which creates utter chaos and puts everything on hold. They give very little authority to the terminal manager or the other 2 office people, regarding ,most issues.
 
what a nightmare same **** with us in pa with the exception that ct drivers regardless of how long there there are keeping there runs and no layoffs vitran people are doomed !
 
The CT drivers have all kept their runs and have worked every day while the Vitran drivers in the last few weeks have been cut to 1 or 2 days a week and had to call in to see if they can even work. Central Transport has essentially destroyed Vitran. It's like they've blown up Vitran and all the pieces have landed in the hands of all the other LTL companies. It's amazing how a large company like Vitran was living and breathing the first of Nov. and 2 months later all the drivers, management, and customers and freight have virtually disappeared. They lost the business here, not to screw ups, but to customers refusing to work with Central and going to other companies. That in itself speaks volumes about Central and their past history.
 
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The CT drivers have all kept their runs and have worked every day while the Vitran drivers in the last few weeks have been cut to 1 or 2 days a week and had to call in to see if they can even work. Central Transport has essentially destroyed Vitran. It's like they've blown up Vitran and all the pieces have landed in the hands of all the other LTL companies. It's amazing how a large company like Vitran was living and breathing the first of Nov. and 2 months later all the drivers, management, and customers and freight have virtually disappeared. They lost the business here, not to screw ups, but to customers refusing to work with Central and going to other companies. That in itself speaks volumes about Central and their past history.
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Goes to show everyone that CT really only wanted the GM freight and nothing else.
 
gandolf said:
The CT drivers have all kept their runs and have worked every day while the Vitran drivers in the last few weeks have been cut to 1 or 2 days a week and had to call in to see if they can even work. Central Transport has essentially destroyed Vitran. It's like they've blown up Vitran and all the pieces have landed in the hands of all the other LTL companies. It's amazing how a large company like Vitran was living and breathing the first of Nov. and 2 months later all the drivers, management, and customers and freight have virtually disappeared. They lost the business here, not to screw ups, but to customers refusing to work with Central and going to other companies. That in itself speaks volumes about Central and their past history.
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They have taken care of their own...They had a great opportunity to keep some of the best Vitran drivers by treating us fairly by integrating the routes and runs fairly....But they chose to give the Vitran drivers the BS leftovers.....Bouncing us to a different route every single F day.....................While their precious CT drivers kept their routes and felt no changes from this acquisition.....The TM's should have done their job by adjusting routes and making necessary changes.....They chose not to do that... The TM's were just lazy or incompetent and didn't want to take the time to adjust the routes and runs and that created massive turnover of the best drivers...That my friends is the business model of CT.....Poor management and no accountability. The one chance they had to upgrade their personnel was lost with total incompetence in management.
 
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gandolf said:
A Vitran/Central city driver, with 25 yrs. with Pjax/Vitran/Central and a spotless driving record and only missed maybe 1 day a year due to illness, was laid off yesterday from the Dunbar, WV terminal. He had the most senority of ALL the drivers there and made $21.55 an hour. They skipped 10 drivers to get to him. The layoff came in an email from Michigan, not the terminal manager. 2 other drivers were laid off too.

They merged the Vitran terminal in the much smaller Central terminal the week before Thanksgiving. In the firing process so far, Vitran employess - 3 line haul drivers quit, 3 office people were laid off when they merged. Since the end of November, they fired 1 Vitran line haul driver, laid off 5 Vitran city drivers in the first round, then 3 Vitran office people in the second round, then 3 more city drivers - 2 Vitran and 1 Central, in the third round. Out of 24 Vitran people, only 6 city drivers and 1 office person and 1 line haul driver are left. As for Central people, they laid off 1 driver.

They lost almost every Vitran account in this area due to customers finding out that Central bought Vitran out, they refused to let Central haul their freight and gave it to other trucking companies. The dispatcher for this terminal is in Michigan and probably has never been to this area, which creates the most havoc. When you need to get a hold of someone the company for hot issues the driver and the manager have to call and leave a message or send an email, which may not be answered for hours which creates utter chaos and puts everything on hold. They give very little authority to the terminal manager or the other 2 office people, regarding ,most issues.
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we lost 17 drivers yesterday in pa a few had over 25 years of service in!
 
me and another driver got laid off at my terminal in va. 4 other vitran drivers where told they had to transfer to another central terminal an hour away this coming Monday or they had no jobs. I was the senior driver with 15 years in. I don't feel too bad though, I was going to quit next Friday for a new job I start jan. 20th. I feel a big relief to be honest. ill miss the people I worked with for a lot of years but there aren't to many left anyway. 3 now I think. most of the central drivers I met I liked. the management on the other hand are just the companys lackies. we went from a terminal doing 400 bills a day to 40 . in 2 months. no one wanted to do business with central. they are set up as a tax write off to lose money. im glad im gone.
realtree said:
we lost 17 drivers yesterday in pa a few had over 25 years of service in!
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vijax said:
me and another driver got laid off at my terminal in va. 4 other vitran drivers where told they had to transfer to another central terminal an hour away this coming Monday or they had no jobs. I was the senior driver with 15 years in. I don't feel too bad though, I was going to quit next Friday for a new job I start jan. 20th. I feel a big relief to be honest. ill miss the people I worked with for a lot of years but there aren't to many left anyway. 3 now I think. most of the central drivers I met I liked. the management on the other hand are just the companys lackies. we went from a terminal doing 400 bills a day to 40 . in 2 months. no one wanted to do business with central. they are set up as a tax write off to lose money. im glad im gone.
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Richmond terminal ? i took a trailer down there Tuesday it looked busy to me..
 
just goes to show how bad working at c.t. really is. i just can't believe how much damage and **** poor service there is. this is twice as bad as vitran was at the end.
 
Just so you guys know that have been laid off, Estes has the welcome mat out for all Vtran drivers. Pretty much at all locations are hiring.
 
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