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Exactly Mudpuppy, the ones gripping are usually the ones calling up north and wanting more, I pulled in right behind a driver last night and he flew inside and went straight to the phone to call central before he even clocked in!! What is the hurry? Racing to get in those 8 dispatches I guess?
 
bfalls said:
Driving around with you head firmly planted in your butt must be an acquired talent. I can tell from your posting that you haven't had to look for a job in about 30 years or so. Just to let you know, the 2 favorite excuses that these "new" employers use are #1: You don't fit our business model and #2: You are way overqualified for this position. Not excuses, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, Got photo's and the T-Shirt to prove it. Take a damned good look around you, our numbers are dwindling, we don't have enough drivers to cover the volume of freight that we currently have, our fleet is over 10 years old and there ain't NOBODY coming to the rescue. Either we suck it up and do the work, or face the consequences. Either way, it isn't pretty, and the days of being able to just say "NO" are all but gone. This is going to become a 24/7/365 job in the very near future, I speculate, about the time electronic logging comes in. Then you will see a radical change to running on rest, 6 trips earns a 48 hour break, 12 trips a 72. Yeah, it's coming.
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Your conclusions about me are not even close to the truth.

I worked part-time driving until Holland called me about a year ago. The reason I worked part-time is because I refused to be treated like a doormat by these billy-big-rigger companies, or work over 60+ hours a week.

Several years ago, I won an unemployment claim against a large company whose initials are YRC GlenMoore, for force dispatching on an 850 mile run that absolutely positively had to go.

>>>> You get treated the way you allow people to treat you. <<<<<

You ever see a pickup with a pair of chrome balls hanging from the hitch. Well mine are much bigger, aren't fake, and I wear them, not my pickup!
 
the5tolls said:
I am actually hoping to get down that way this fall, my middle child is going to be at Ole Miss for the next two years at graduate school. I think it is only about an hour from our terminal there, I have only been to that terminal once. It should be a lot warmer winter for him then last year up here in Wisconsin!
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Congradulations to your middle child, awesome accomplishment.The only gears he or she will be shifting will be in their sports car.I know you are proud.Good job!!!!
 
Getoverit said:
Exactly Mudpuppy, the ones gripping are usually the ones calling up north and wanting more, I pulled in right behind a driver last night and he flew inside and went straight to the phone to call central before he even clocked in!! What is the hurry? Racing to get in those 8 dispatches I guess?
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Trying to make up for the 10k they lost in the giveback probably, slaves to their debt
 
Snark Monkey said:
I would quit if I was refused my earned day off. So what if you don't get a pension, and have to pay your own health insurance, at least the equipment would be decent to drive and you wouldn't have to sleep in some of those Gawd awful rat-trap motels (ie . . .Kansas City). Back in the day, you could file a grievance over dump motels. But I'm a dinosaur and my time is almost gone.
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" A driver returning to their home domicile and self arriving after noon on Saturday may drop for Sunday dispatch. They would have to notify central dispatch prior to 8am,provided there is no unreasonable delay in the movement of freight." This is the earned time off letter of understanding. They can make you work, and they have have in the past per the agreement. I don't know where you have worked in the past, but I've been here a 18 years and we never had the "6 trips/ 48 off". In fact when I started there were times when you came in on Sunday you went out on Sunday night. This was a fact of life, we knew that when we signed up for the job. We were also told to pack a 7 day bag because we were in the business of moving freight! You being here what, a little over a year might not know all this, but there has been a bunch of you Johnny come lately guys that seem to think they know every thing there is to know. Just remember this is Holland not where you use to work "back in the day". Remember Toto your not in Kansas any more!
 
I must not have stated it incorrectly, even though I am a Holland driver, I had driven for a short time for YRC in the past. YRC has the six day 36 hour seven day 48 hour deal, or something like that. I think if you work ten turns you can have 60 hours off. I was just a relay driver for one winter a couple years ago, so I am not an expert on YRC by any means. If it sounded like I was talking about Holland, sorry for the confusion. I guess my point was that I had heard some rumblings of YRC trying to push some sort of earned time off that is more like theirs upon us, it is probably just rumors that will never happen, but I have heard rumblings.

wood duck said:
" A driver returning to their home domicile and self arriving after noon on Saturday may drop for Sunday dispatch. They would have to notify central dispatch prior to 8am,provided there is no unreasonable delay in the movement of freight." This is the earned time off letter of understanding. They can make you work, and they have have in the past per the agreement. I don't know where you have worked in the past, but I've been here a 18 years and we never had the "6 trips/ 48 off". In fact when I started there were times when you came in on Sunday you went out on Sunday night. This was a fact of life, we knew that when we signed up for the job. We were also told to pack a 7 day bag because we were in the business of moving freight! You being here what, a little over a year might not know all this, but there has been a bunch of you Johnny come lately guys that seem to think they know every thing there is to know. Just remember this is Holland not where you use to work "back in the day". Remember Toto your not in Kansas any more!
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Friday night, over a thousand miles from home, I think I'll be calling tomorrow morning for my earned time off.....unless they give me an eleven hundred mile run tonight?
 
the5tolls said:
Friday night, over a thousand miles from home, I think I'll be calling tomorrow morning for my earned time off.....unless they give me an eleven hundred mile run tonight?
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Time to call the Diesel Doctor and have some "MOJO" put on that Bad Boy!!!! LMAO!!
 
wood duck said:
" A driver returning to their home domicile and self arriving after noon on Saturday may drop for Sunday dispatch. They would have to notify central dispatch prior to 8am,provided there is no unreasonable delay in the movement of freight." This is the earned time off letter of understanding. They can make you work, and they have have in the past per the agreement. I don't know where you have worked in the past, but I've been here a 18 years and we never had the "6 trips/ 48 off". In fact when I started there were times when you came in on Sunday you went out on Sunday night. This was a fact of life, we knew that when we signed up for the job. We were also told to pack a 7 day bag because we were in the business of moving freight! You being here what, a little over a year might not know all this, but there has been a bunch of you Johnny come lately guys that seem to think they know every thing there is to know. Just remember this is Holland not where you use to work "back in the day". Remember Toto your not in Kansas any more!
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You act like not get regular time off is something to be proud of., but it isn't. This is not the old Shoe with new, fast running trucks. This is wallstreet-shoe which just milks every penny they can from employees, so a regular time off policy is something to pursue.
 
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