Maybe you'll get lucky and find a good home for yourself. You're not in heaven at ABF.
Don't know if any place is heaven anymore... Always something somewhere, union or not. ABF is definitely not heaven, but certainly not the worst. I have probably done at least 6 applications for driving jobs and a couple for things totally out of trucking.
I wish you lived around here. When AWI got bought and cancelled their Teamster pension, my son was able to jump to another carrier within a week, and has standing offers at two other Teamster carriers. We have three PLA gas pipeline sites that are going to open up within weeks, they need roughly 200 Teamster drivers. Pipelines around here are sucking up all the available CDL drivers,......even the marginal ones. Good luck, Brother........If there's pipeline work in your area, many of them pay into Teamster funds that have reciprocity.....,. Check them out. Also,......they start you at $30 an hour,.......haven't seen one less than that in W.PA.......I'm sure you'll find something soon.
I would be all over it if there was anything remotely close to me. I have talked to our local BA to see if he knows of anything but he is out of town until Thursday. Started the unemployment process this morning. I didn't work today so I am betting there will be nothing for me this week.
Too many crusty old slobs waiting to die behind the wheel. Pathetic! These were all the guys 40 years ago that couldn't wait to retire. Trust me, NOBODY thinks they are heroes. Everybody laughs at how sad they are behind their back, and what scumbags they are for pushing the bottom 25% into the layoff line. Fact
It is what it is... I am the low man and it is a fact of being the bottom guy. With this Central States Pension Fund fiasco getting ready to take shape, there may be more senior drivers hanging on longer than they want to. I don't know... so much going on in the trucking world right now... Supposed driver shortage, Conway getting ready to be sold and a possible new game changer coming to play with that, an economy that sucks, YRC still barely hanging on... Possible new Teamsters union leadership... How much more can we pile on here? I see a storm coming, or maybe it is already here and we just don't know it yet...