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.