Yellow | New YRC Freight President Shakes Up Management!

Great...there will soon be as many "Chiefs" as there are "Indians" !!!
You know, we've said such things before. I agree with you and several of the other posters on this thread.

1) Please remember that WE, not the management, are the stability of this company. They turn over almost as quickly as the leaves on the trees.
2) We, like the airline people, the railroad people and the auto workers are pretty much married to the company. It is our responsibility to make it work. The cost of separation and starting over somewhere else is enormous.
3) We have the duty to "take the bull by the horns." You all know who the bull is in this circumstance.
4) When you have an extraordinarily cantankerous (or arrogant or incompetent) bull to deal with, you send them to the slaughterhouse.
5) I surmise that Hawkins will prove to be a "short timer."
6) Take care of the equipment like it costs YOU for repairs. It's all we've got.
7) If you are a freight handler, handle it carefully. Claims are "eating our lunch."
8) Do it right. Show the management that they're really not needed. How humiliating for them when they come to realize that THEY are the excess baggage.
 
You know, we've said such things before. I agree with you and several of the other posters on this thread.

1) Please remember that WE, not the management, are the stability of this company. They turn over almost as quickly as the leaves on the trees.
2) We, like the airline people, the railroad people and the auto workers are pretty much married to the company. It is our responsibility to make it work. The cost of separation and starting over somewhere else is enormous.
3) We have the duty to "take the bull by the horns." You all know who the bull is in this circumstance.
4) When you have an extraordinarily cantankerous (or arrogant or incompetent) bull to deal with, you send them to the slaughterhouse.
5) I surmise that Hawkins will prove to be a "short timer."
6) Take care of the equipment like it costs YOU for repairs. It's all we've got.
7) If you are a freight handler, handle it carefully. Claims are "eating our lunch."
8) Do it right. Show the management that they're really not needed. How humiliating for them when they come to realize that THEY are the excess baggage.


Screw that you screw me your getting screwed back till they close the doors.
 
Its a good chance this new management system doesn't work , but at least they are trying to make a difference . Dam !! lets give it a chance before we whine like b!tches . :17:
 
Its a good chance this new management system doesn't work , but at least they are trying to make a difference . Dam !! lets give it a chance before we whine like b!tches . :17:

Its the line my old buddy's pockets management club so you give them a chance.
Until I get my retirement back I'm a member of the fork the freight club.
 
Its the line my old buddy's pockets management club so you give them a chance.
Until I get my retirement back I'm a member of the fork the freight club.
With you and the other "fork the freight" people in our midst, we don't stand a chance. One of the most difficult things I've had to deal with in the MANY years I've been with this company and its predecessors is people who express the sentiments that you do. Pardner, if you don't want to be part of the solution, you are part of the problem. We don't need problems. If you persist in being a member of "fork the freight", would you do the rest of us a favor and get the ^%$@ out???
I don't really need a future here; my time is in and I can retire today if I want to. That's not true of a great many of our peers though. They still need to work, and are hoping that we COLLECTIVELY can turn this company upwards, turn a profit, get our pay and pension money back and put this company back on solid footing. If you don't want to be a part of that, then please leave!
Here's the problem---we've lost a lot of business over the past five years, nearly all of that within the first month after March 1, 2009. That means that filling a trailer from San Bernardino to Nashville takes twice as long as it used to (pick your favorite breakbulk pairs, those are just for example). Because it takes twice as long as it used to, the service time suffers. Because the service time suffers, the customers seek quicker ways to move their freight. So.....it's a vicious downward spiral. What we all need to do is get that spiral going the other direction; more business makes faster transit times, which in turn makes more business and still faster transit times. If we have to hold trailers because they're not full (it's costly, VERY costly to ship them not full) instead of filling them and shipping them in one seamless motion, we are "shooting ourselves in the foot." When people like you deliberately damage freight, that costs the bottom line. Your wages are dependent on that bottom line being a positive number. It also hacks off the customers, who then seek other ways to move their freight (see sentences above).
Now let's not kid ourselves--I want my full pay scale, my full pension money and everything else we've been bargaining for since 1955. We all want those things. However, those monies don't fall out of the sky. We have to make it happen through hard work, efficiency and doing it better than our competitors. If you (and anybody else) isn't on board with that, you need to go spread your poison at ConWay or FedEx please.
 
It's poor brain dead people like you that having nothing in life to do but work and die that ruins it for the rest of us. I built this company to some POS yellow cancer came and destroyed the freight business so I leave when I get even. You been screwed all your life so I know you don't know no better.
 
Its the line my old buddy's pockets management club so you give them a chance.
Until I get my retirement back I'm a member of the fork the freight club.

I sense you may be a high up person in the fork club for many years, and will be gray all over and still have no more pension than you have right now.
 
It's poor brain dead people like you that having nothing in life to do but work and die that ruins it for the rest of us. I built this company to some POS yellow cancer came and destroyed the freight business so I leave when I get even. You been screwed all your life so I know you don't know no better.

You know - it's "fork the freight" people like you that cause people that do a good job to have to work harder and longer to get what they deserve... It's always harder to do a good job when you have to carry someone else's poor work on your shoulders....
 
How am I supposed to listen to something I didn't know about?
Nothing posted about it at 511
Nothing said at pre-shift
Heck I didn't even see it on Truckingboards
The idiots running the place can't carry a thought all the way down to the worker!

You are not supposed to listen to something you didn't know about... - but I HIGHLY doubt there were less than 1000 employees that "knew" about the call....

Nothing posted at 511? - Ask your supervisors about it!!

Truckingboards - while a fun place to hang out when you need to kill a few hours and brain-cells... is NOT the company go-to for info. Have you heard of "Driveontogether.com" Think carefully here.. say NO and that means you haven't read all of the propaganda mailed to you in the last 5 months... Say yes - and you admit you don't visit it for credible information about the company - IT WAS POSTED THERE.

The "idiots running the place" as you call them cannot hold your hand and make you participate... they can only put the info out there... I got it... you had it....

Just saying...
 
It's poor brain dead people like you that having nothing in life to do but work and die that ruins it for the rest of us. I built this company to some POS yellow cancer came and destroyed the freight business so I leave when I get even. You been screwed all your life so I know you don't know no better.
Pardner, if you knew the truth about what you wrote here, you would be trying to crawl under a rock and hide. You know nothing about my brain, but I can tell you definitively that there is obviously much more electrical activity going on in my crania than in yours.
Did you graduate high school? I have three college degrees, all of them well accredited (look up to see what that means). I have a tested IQ in the 130s to 140s (depending on the test), and a very active life outside of work. Do you fly airplanes? I do, and I'm not talking the radio-controlled kind. Have you ever served as a job steward? I've got six years under my belt.
I think you need to seriously backtrack on your untoward comment; that would be the mature thing to do. Honestly, with your work ethic, my guess is that you live in a trailer with no mirrors, since you clearly can't look yourself in a mirror.
Now get a grip, please!
 
and with all that you are driving a truck ?
Yeah, I am. Unfortunately, timing is everything and mine wasn't on time. I earned my last degree (a Master's) when I was in my late 40s. Since that time, the job market in my academic field tightened up considerably, and the hiring folks wanted a different demographic than I had to offer. So here I am still, and that's OK.
 
No need to debate thing that can not be of any good for all by calling each other names.
I think you should be wondering Y, yes, why is Mr. Welch selling off appox. 1 and 1/3 million shares of stock.
Is he trying to water down the price of stock again?
If so why?
He does not need the money $$$ or at least I have not seen him shopping at the Good Will Store with the rest of US.
Check Security form 4 under his name, public info.
Strange, something is up.
 
No need to debate thing that can not be of any good for all by calling each other names.
I think you should be wondering Y, yes, why is Mr. Welch selling off appox. 1 and 1/3 million shares of stock.
Is he trying to water down the price of stock again?
If so why?
He does not need the money $$$ or at least I have not seen him shopping at the Good Will Store with the rest of US.
Check Security form 4 under his name, public info.
Strange, something is up.

All Welch is doing is rubbing it in our faces that's all.
 
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